Category: Celebs

Three Sly Tidbits

Craig / / 2002, Celebs, Cliffhanger

Two SLY items appear in the June 11, 2002 issue of STAR. The first is in the EAVES DROPPING section:

SLY STALLONE at a celebrity gala tellng a friend: “I’m the anti-Fred MacMurray.” Sly, who has his third daughter due any day now, says: “I should have a show called ‘My Three Daughters.'”

In the same issue in the STAR PEOPLE section:

Psst… Want to know the secret to SYLVESTER STALLONE‘S knockout hair? Rocky gets his curly locks straightened at the Yuki salon in West Hollywood.

In the June 14, 2002 issue of ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY‘sTIME CAPSULE section for June 11, 1993:

At the movies: SYLVESTER STALLONE clings to his fading superstardom in CLIFFHANGER, the week’s No. 2 movie.

As to the comment, “fading superstardom,” how many stars fade for 9 years? Puh-leaze!

– Craig Zablo [June 8, 2002]

“Shade” Update

Craig / / 2002, Celebs, Shade
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]

Sly Scores as a Lover

Craig / / 2002, Celebs

Alain from France sent in the following:

Fun on the Sly! Stallone scores a KO for his bed work with Dickinson By Amy Reiter

Feb. 13, 2002 |

Guess they don’t call Sylvester Stallone “Rocky” for nothin’.

In her upcoming autobiography, “Car Wreck Woman: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel,” excerpted on Glamour.com, model and serial celebrity-dater Janice Dickinson says that of all the men she’s slept with — John Kennedy Jr., John Cusack, Mick Jagger and Jack Nicholson included — sassy Sly was able to go the most rounds in the sack.

“Stallone is the most incredible lover I’ve ever known,” Dickinson gushes. “Until you’ve been thrown in bed and Rambo-ed all night, you cannot understand the meaning of great sex. I had bells going off in my head.”

So considerate a lover was the heavy-lidded heavyweight, he offered to treat Dickinson to a new set of breast implants.

But the model refused the gesture.

“I already had my own,” she said.

Translation: Just send a check, Sly.

For more details check out Salon.com.

Thanks to Alain.

– Craig Zablo (May 19, 2002)

Sly is The Dean

Craig / / 2002, Celebs, Shade

Thriller ‘Shade’ hustles cast for dealer Nieman
Tue May 14, 2:16 AM ET by Zorianna Kit

LOS ANGELES (The Hollywood Reporter) — Sylvester Stallone, Thandie Newton, Gabriel Byrne and Stuart Townsend will star in RKO Pictures’ crime thriller “Shade” from first-time writer-director Damian Nieman. Production begins May 30 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 — Newton, Townsend and Byrne — encounter “The Dean” (Stallone) and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster.

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 will appear in the film.

“It’s been a long time since there has been a cool L.A. movie; we hope this film does for modern Los Angeles what ‘L.A. Confidential’ did for 1950s Los Angeles,” Hammond said. He said that the producers plan to feature numerous local landmarks in the film, including the Argyle Hotel, the Magic Castle and the Roosevelt Hotel.

Hammond said the project takes its roots in an underworld that very much exists in Los Angeles today.

“There is a network of card hustlers and gamblers who use sleight of hand and card manipulation to get what they want,” he said. “Damian is a former top-card ‘mechanic’ and is drawing on his own personal knowledge for this film.”

Said Hartley: “I could not think of a better group of talented actors coming together on this RKO picture. I believe this will be the first of a number of truly exciting pictures that RKO will produce this year. We all fell in love with Damian Nieman‘s screenplay with its colorful cast of characters.”

Cobalt Media Group’s Peter Rogers and Ralpho Borgos will handle international sales for the film, which debuts on their sales slate at this month’s Festival de Cannes.

– Craig Zablo (May 14, 2002)

Sly at Race to Erase

Craig / / 2002, Celebs

HOLLYWOOD (Variety) – Appropriately for a fund-raiser called the Race to Erase MS, Friday’s dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel had its key acceleration going into the final sprint.

The ninth edition kicked off with a 1970s-themed, celebrity fashion show by Tommy Hilfiger. (The invite also called for ’70s dress, which revealed how much scary disco gear gathers dust in Beverly Hills closets.)

The high-energy runway presentation ended with co-chair Hilfiger taking the traditional designer’s bow (wearing a wig that gave him the appearance of an unusually healthy Iggy Pop) to strong applause.

The evening’s message on multiple sclerosis was delivered by co-chair Nancy Davis, who spoke about possible treatments, which surprisingly may include botox. Davis said the dinner raised a record $2.5 million.

While dinner was served, Tom Arnold, Tony Danza and Bill Maher emceed a live auction, valiantly trying to hold the crowd’s attention for the nine luxury items offered. One $16,000 bidder they nabbed was Montel Williams, who — proving you’re never too old to learn new, dangerous sports — will be taking luge lessons from Olympians at Lake Placid.

The evening shifted into high-gear with the live entertainment: Don Henley, Stevie Nicks and, especially, Smokey Robinson and Donna Summer. It’s not often a fund-raising crowd gets jiggy at a hotel dinner, but Summer had them out of their seats for her entire set.

Among guests were Tara Reid, Brooke Shields, Sylvester Stallone, Barbara and Marvin Davis, Lisa Kudrow, Teri Garr, Jackie Collins, Angela Bassett and Ray Romano.

– Craig Zablo (May 14, 2002)

The Rock Learns From Sly & Arnold

Craig / / 2002, Celebs

From STUFF Magazine: May 2002

The Rock: Lord of the Ring

Excerpt from interview:

Will the Rock succeed?
Oh, yeah. I have had some great advisers helping me along the way. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger have come down to the set to chat.

Could you understand what either of them said?
Yeah, Sly said, “Don’t look directly into the sun,” and Schwarzenegger said, “Always use a condom.” So I took that advice, and here we are. Both guys have been extremely supportive, and they certainly don’t have to be. It’s Great. They define the action genre.

Arnold has made some great movies, and Sylvester has done an amazing job. I mean, Rockyis just one of the all-time greatest pictures ever made.

Aren’t you overlooking Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot?
Yeah, and Red Heat.

*This cartoon was with the article, Illustrated by: Gary Brandham.*

Thanks to John “Big” Beatty for the tip and the scan.

– Craig Zablo (May 2, 2002)

Stallone in “The Green”?

Craig / / 2002, Celebs, Unmade Films

STALLONE IS IN IT FOR ‘THE GREEN: Numenorean principals Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman have agreed to adapt Troon McAllister‘s award-winning novel The Green for a spring 2002 shoot starring Sylvester Stallone. Stallone plays Eddie Caminetti, a golf hustler who reluctantly gets dragged into the upper-crust world of playing for the American team in the Ryder Cup matches – golf’s most prestigious event. Stallone is committed and Samuel Jackson has expressed interest in playing the team’s coach. The project will be produced jointly with Crusader Entertainment and Paramount Pictures.

I’m sure that this would not be the film that many SZoners would have picked for Sly to do next. But this book has gotten rave reviews. Click on the picture to the left, if you would like to read them or even purchase it.

Thanks to Franck (from Paris, France)

– Craig Zablo (April 21, 2002)

ISN’T IT ICONIC?

Craig / / 2002, Celebs

Sly‘s in the current (issue 124) issue of IMPACT. It gives a career overview and comparison on Sly and Arnold Schwarzenegger in an article by John Bierly entitled … “ISN’T IT ICONIC”

For a whole generation of young film-goers Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were the kings of the action genre. But, in a changing marketplace, whose career has best survived the years of crash and burn ? Impact traces their paths of destruction… Here are some excerpts guys…

‘”Stallone, meanwhile , had carved out a career with brains rather than brawn. ‘

“The Last Action Hero bombed in 1993, but 1994 Arnold found huge success again with True Lies. Stallone starred in one of his finest films, Cliffhanger, in 1993.’

‘ The difference , perhaps, is this : Sylvester Stallone is an actor, and Arnold Schwarzenerger is a star.’

‘I feel quite strongly that Stallone‘s performance in the 2000 remake of Get Carter is the best work off his career. He played Jack Carter as a real human being, whose single- minded quest for revenge instead brings him redemption. It’s a brave physical and emotional performance , and should have earned Stallone an Oscar nomination. ‘

‘ The bottom line is each man seems to be doing what suits him most. Stalllone is too good an actor to confine himself to bad action movies. ‘

Thanks to “Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes.
– Craig Zablo (April 21, 2002)

Three Sly Tidbits

Craig / / 2002, Celebs, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone

On March 26th Sly attended the sixth annual “An Unforgettable Evening” benefit for breast cancer in Beverly Hills, California. Elton John was the guest of honor. John Mellencamp provided the night’s musical entertainment, while comedian Dennis Miller hosted.

 

Also in attendance were Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, Kate Capshaw, Steven Spielberg, Natalie Cole, and Fran Drescher, among others.

 

The April 1, 2002 (no fooling) issue of US Weekly contains two Sly tidbits:

 

In the “Loose Talk” section Sly is quoted as saying: “Anyone who says they’re not disappointed is putting you on.” in reference to losing at the Oscars.

In a sidebar section about famous breakups the following appears:

 

Jennifer Flavin The Dump: In May 1994, after five years of dating, Sylvester Stallone dropped Revlon model Flavin with a six-page letter delivered via Federal Express. Today: The couple reunited in the summer of 1995 and married two years later. They have two young daughters, and Flavin is pregnant again.