Category: Celebs

Sly to Play for British TV

Craig / / 2005, Celebs, TV

Sylvester Stallone will join Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones on a team headed by US Open winner Mark O’Meara to play against an all-star Europeon team.

The competition will play out on a new golf TV show called All Stars Cup which will air on the British digital network Sky One on August 29th.

There’s no word yet if the show will play in the US.

For more details click HERE.

– Craig

Sly Set to Receive CineVegas and Brenden Theaters Star Award

Craig / / 2005, Celebs, Honors

Sly Stallone along with Laurence Fishburne,Christina Ricci, Helen Mirren, and Taylor Hackford will be honored at the eighth annual CineVegas Film Festival. The festival will be held from June 9th -17th in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sly is set to receive the the CineVegas and Brenden Theaters Star award. I’ll post more information as the dates near in case any SZoners want to attend.

Mr. Fishburne and Ms. Ricci will receive the “Half-Life” awards for their carrer achievements. Ms. Mirren is up for the Marquee Award for Lifetime Achievementand Mr. Hackford will receive the Vanguard Director Award.

– Craig

Sly Denies Plot Against Arnold

Craig / / 2005, Celebs

The New York Daily News has reported that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger believes that Sylvester Stallone once worked behind the scenes to smear him as
a Nazi sympathizer.

According to the article, Arnold believes that a comment that
he made in a Playboy interview in which he slammed Sly by
saying that Stallone “hired the best publicity agents [but]
there’s nothing anyone can do…to save his image” prompted
Sly to seek vengence by telling British reporter Wendy Leigh
 that Arnold’s Austrian father helped round up Jews during the Holocaust and that Arnold remained a “secret admirer of Hitler.”

Sly has denied [through his reps] that he had anything to do with Leigh’s book.

You can read the full account by clicking HERE – Craig

Sly’s Dream Project… A Reality!

Craig / / 2005, Celebs, Unmade Films

On May 23, 2005, Variety.com reported that Sly Stallone will direct his long-discussed dream project: a movie about the life and death of Edgar Allen Poe. Sly has been talking about making this film for years and now it looks as if it will happen.

Stallone‘s choice [and it’s a great one] to play Poe is Robert Downey Jr.

Stallone will direct from his own screenplay.

Nu Image/Millennium Films will finance, produce and distribute the film which may start shooting this fall.

So… where does that leave Rocky VI and Rambo IV? Only time will tell. – Craig

Sly to Appear on “Larry King Live”

Craig / / 2005, Celebs, TV

Sly Stallone was in LA on May 6, 2005 to tape an interview hosted by Larry King.  The interview is set to air on CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ May 14, 2005. Stallone will discuss his career, his new reality series, The Contender, his venture into health foods and supplements (‘Stallone High Protein Pudding’) and more.

– Craig