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Dick Giordano, the comics legend is back! During his fifty plus years in the biz he’s done everything from ink all the greats (including himself) to serve as Editor-in-Chief of DC Comics, to co-founding his own comic company.
I had the good fortune to pick up six model sheet headsketches of Sly that Mr. Giodano did before starting work on DC Comics adaptation of “Demolition Man”. This is the sixth. To see all of the other headsketches, click here.
On January 18, 2010, in a piece at Zap2It.com titled “Golden Globes Mavericks Quentin Tarantino and Mickey Rourke Rock the Red Carpet!” Sly is mentioned when Mickey Rourke’s outfit for the evening was discussed:
“Mickey had his couture punk rock cowboy tux made by “David August, David August, David August,” who is Sly Stallone’s tailor.”
You can read the full piece here.
On January 18, 2010, Sly was mentioned in Cindy Adams’ column for the New York Post:
In Vegas for the Tattoo Show, publisher Casey Exton with Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Zito ordered Absolut on the rocks. His tab was $17 — $14 for the vodka; 3 bucks for the three rocks . . .
You can read Cindy Adams’ full piece here.
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.
