Author: Craig

On July 10, 2011, The Daily Star posted a piece titled “Rocky’s a Knockout for Sylvester Stallone”.  In the piece Sly says that he still works out to the Rocky theme…

• “Yeah, I exercise to the Rocky song… Even after 30 years it gets me going. It’s amazing.”

Sly also said that when he was younger he felt because he was so closely identified as Rocky it was a weight he had to carry…

• “When I was younger, I thought it was a burden and I did everything in the world to go against it.  Now that I’ve gotten older, it’s the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

On July 1, 2011, Who2 posted a piece titled, “From the Movie Archives: Vincent Camby Slams ‘Rocky'”.  The piece then quotes Camby who said…

• Mr. Stallone’s Rocky is less a performance than an impersonation. It’s all superficial mannerisms and movements, reminding me of Rodney Dangerfield doing a nightclub monologue… Throughout the movie we are asked to believe that his Rocky is compassionate, interesting, even heroic, though the character we see is simply an unconvincing actor imitating a lug.

The article goes on to say that Roger Ebert compared Sly’s performance in “Rocky” to that of a “young Marlon Brando” and that “Sylvester Stallone got the last laugh, in any case: Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture, and Stallone was nominated as Best Actor.”

You can read the whole piece and see a Rocky photo gallery by clicking over to the original article.