| Our POW this week is a cool action shot of Sly as Jack Carter!
– Craig Zablo [June 8, 2002] |
Category: 2002
“Rocky” Films Hosted by Frank Stallone
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Frank Stallone will be the host of ESPN Classic’s ‘Reel Classics‘ showing of the Rocky series every Sunday night at 9pm EST/6PM Pacific – throughout the whole month of June!! Check your local listings and tune in to watch Frank share all the inside stories on these great classics, and see his vast collection of boxing memorabilia! Rocky Sunday June 2, 2002 |
It’d be worth it to tune in and see Frank’s extensive boxing memorabilia! – Craig Zablo [May 31, 2002]
Two Star Tidbits
The May 28, 2002 issue of Star contains two Slyitems:
1. The pic to the left appears in a piece called “Stars Go Psychedelic… and it’s all for a good cause” which covers the Race to Erase Mutiple Sclerosis Benefit.
2. Janet Charlton‘s Star People column contains the following:
Makin’ Ends Meat
Sylvester Stallone hasn’t been making a lot of movies lately, but he’s found an easy way to make a fast buck. The Rocky star, who once appeared in a soft-porn flick called The Italian Stallion, just pocketed a cool $1.5 million for a day’s work. What could be worth such a handsome sum? Ham actor Sly is shilling for Italian meat manufacturer Citterio.
– Craig Zablo [May 31, 2002]
“Shade” Update
| It’s in the cards: Griffith hustled into ‘Shade’ role Mon May 27, 7:13 PM ET by Zorianna Kit LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) — Melanie Griffith has joined the cast of RKO Pictures/Merv Griffin Entertainment’s crime thriller “Shade” for first-time writer-director Damian Nieman. Production begins Thursday in Los Angeles. “Shade” is set in the world of poker hustlers working the clubs and martini bars of Los Angeles. The tale unfolds as the hustlers — Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend and Gabriel Byrne — encounter “The Dean” (Sylvester Stallone) and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster. Jamie Foxx also stars as a man who wants to become a hustler but ends up getting hustled. Griffith will star as a Stallone‘s ex-flame who rekindles her romance with him when he arrives in the city. RKO chairman and CEO Ted Hartley is producing with Hammond Entertainment’s David Schnepp and Chris Hammond. Merv Griffin and Joe Nicolo will executive produce with actor Bo Hopkins, who also is in the film. Cobalt Media Group’s Peter Rogers and Ralpho Borgos are handling international sales. “Shade” will mark the second RKO-related project for Griffith, who starred as Marion Davies in the 1999 HBO feature “RKO 281,” about the battle between William Randolph Hearst and Orson Welles over the 1941 feature film “Citizen Kane,” which was produced by RKO, at that time known as RKO Radio Pictures Inc. Griffith, repped by WMA, was nominated for a best actress Oscar for her role in “Working Girl.” She next voices a character in Columbia Pictures’ “Stuart Little 2” and stars in the indie feature “Tempo” opposite Rachael Leigh Cook. – Craig Zablo [May 31, 2002] |
Scarlet Rose Stallone is Born!
Sly Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin, gave birth to their third daughter at 1:39 p.m. Saturday in Los Angeles their publicist Paul Bloch announced on Tuesday, May 28, 2002. She weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces, and was 22 inches long. They named her Scarlet Rose.
The Stallones have two other daughters, 5-year-old Sophia and 3-year-old Sistine.
POW – “Victory”
Sly in a behind the scenes shot during the filming of “Victory.”
– Craig Zablo [May 31, 2002]
Catholic Guilt
The current issue of Entertainment Weekly (May 31, 2002) contains the following:
If all else fails, blame the Church. That’s what Sylvester Stallonedid when CBS didn’t pick up Lefty, the television drama he exec-produced starring Titanic‘s Danny Nucci as a tough-talking priest. Stallone believes the Catholic Church’s current troubles led the Eye to pass on the pilot. “Danny was fantastic,” says Stallone. “And to come out with a show about priests at this particular time… I think people are waiting for something to help them exhale.” Stallone‘s the one who needs to take a breather, says one source close close to the negotiations. It wasn’t the preist-pedophilia scandal but Lefty‘s soft, Touched by an Angelsensibility that prompted CBS to reject it in favor of the sharper fare like Without a Trace, a missing persons drama with Anthony LaPaglia, and the cop-themed RHD/LA, which stars Tom Sizemore and is exec-produced by Heat‘s Michael Mann. Says the source, “The network wants to go in a certain direction, with younger-skewing, harder-edged shows with an urban feel.”
– Craig Zablo (May 27, 2002)
Rocky Game
Pic from Finland
I thought you´d like this pic of Sly printed in a Finnish mag called “Katso” last week. They’re showing all of the Rocky movies here in Finland… So, here you go.
By the way, I´ve always enjoyed your site and I hope you´ll continue with it for a long time.
love, Merit from Finland
Thanks Merit! – Craig Zablo (May 27, 2002)
POW – Sly
Here’s a nice little candid of da man!
– Craig Zablo
(May 25, 2002)