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On January 18, 2010, Monsters and Critics posted a piece titled Sly Stallone and Sir Phillip Green Live It Up in Hollywood. The article by Phillipa Bourke followed up on a report by the UK Mirror detailing a night out at LA’s West Hollywood restaurant Cecconi’s’. According to the piece “Green’s and Stallone’s wives, Tina Green and the glamorous Jennifer Flavin, respectively were described as ‘dripping in diamonds’ and getting along famously.”
You can read the whole piece here.
Specialist91 found this cool little interview with Sly by Piers Morgan in Vegas. You’ll even see some quick glimpses of “The Expendables”.
I knew that when Sly sent us his x-rays in to silence the doubters, that the post would get a lot of attention. Here are a few places it was picked up:
Want to see a short, grainy video of Sly and Jason Statham admiring Sly’s new special edition Camero outside the Chateau Marmont? Somehow, I knew you would so click on the link and check out Auto Spies’ post.
You can also click here to see a couple of photos of their meeting.
On January 13, 2010, BBC News ran a quiz about celebs with tats. Sly’s ink was the basis of the final question. Want to take the test? Then click here.
On January 11, 2010, The Daily Mail ran a piece about Sly’s paintings. Here are some highlights:
The action hero has painted since before he made his name in Rocky and Rambo, but has only started to earn recognition for his work in recent years.
Stallone has seen his work exhibited and even had two pieces snapped up by ‘super collector’ Steve Wynn for $90,000.
‘I think there’s always been a stigma attached to being a hyphenate – artist-singer, artist-actor,’ he said. ‘It came early, early on in my career.’
One of his acclaimed paintings is “Death of a Friend… a very personal expression of grief.”
‘That was my manager,’ he said. Her name was Jane Oliver. She basically found me when I was just a struggling actor and nobody believed in me.
‘And then just as I made it in Rocky, she gets cancer and dies. I went into this real dark place. That’s what painting was about. It was like a conveyor belt just taking my heart away.’
To read the full piece, and every Stallone fan should, just click here.
SZoner, Paul Wintner checked in with a couple more photos from his amazing Stallone collection. We’ll run some more photos in the coming weeks, but if you can’t wait, follow the link to his site… and plan to stay a while because Paul’s collection is stunning.
When SZoner, Gerardo Moreno heard that Sly had been injured he decided to create a poster to represent how Sly’s fans. Well done, Gerardo!
You can see more of Gerardo’s art at his site.
Today’s piece is Jon Riggle’s take on Sly as Freddy from “Cop Land”. Jon is an illustrator and photographer. He also created the Sci-Fi comic strip Sonic Jack and is available for commissions. You can see more of Jon’s art here and here.
Thanks to Jon for the bang-up job and John Beatty for the gift.
Sly has been following some of the discussions on the message boards and wanted to set the record straight:
Dear Craig,
For the doubters and the haters, a picture is worth a thousand words. You
walk the walk, you pay a price. But, as bad as it was at least we have it on
film.Keep punchin’
Sly
P.S. To the haters, I don’t need to invent pain, there’s enough of it out
there to go around.P.S.S. The reason I was never seen in a neck brace is because I stayed home
for three weeks to heal.P.S.S.S. Van Damme may mean a great deal to some of you, but what he’s
putting forth is not truthful.
So there you have it, SZoners. Don’t waste your time arguing with the doubters and the haters. – Craig
