Category: Driven

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 1985, 2020, Celebs, Cobra, Daylight, Demolition Man, Driven, Family, First Blood, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone, Lock Up, Nighthawks, Over the Top, Rambo, Rambo II, Rambo III, Rhinestone, Rocky, Rocky IV, Staying Alive, The Specialist

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week

Craig / / 2019, Celebs, Creed II, Driven, Family, Honors

Sly and the Family Stallone News for the Week:

Crowining Mr. Sports Movies

Craig / / 2014, Death Race 2000, Driven, Grudge Match, Over the Top, Paradise Alley, Rocky, Rocky Balboa, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky V, Rocky VI, Victory

On April 9, 2014, Yahoo! Movies took a look at which actor had played the most sports roles in their piece Crowining Mr. Sports Movies by Brian Enk.

Had they counted each Rocky movie individually (as I think they should have) then Sly would have easily come in first.  At any rate, here’s what the said about him…

—Sylvester Stallone: If we were to tally sports movies as a whole, including sequels, the Italian Stallion would be our champ, with six entries as boxer Rocky Balboa in the “Rocky” movies. Sly’s other sports movie credits include “Death Race 2000” (1975), in which he played deadly cross country racer Machine Gun Joe Viterbo; “Paradise Alley” (1978), in which he played Cosmo Corboni, one of three brothers trying to play the wrestling game in 1940s NYC; “Victory” (1981), in which he played a soccer goalie for the Allied forces as they face off against a German team at a WWII prison camp; “Over the Top” (1986), the greatest arm-wrestling movie ever made; “Driven” (2001), in which he plays former CART champion and car racing mentor Joe Tanto; and “Grudge Match” (2013), in which he plays former boxing champ Henry “Razor” Sharp.

LotofSly: Renny Harlin Autograph!

Craig / / 2012, Celebs, Driven

That’s an ultra-rare promotional post card for “Driven” starring Sly Stallone and directed by Renny Harlin.  If you look closer, you’ll see that it’s autographed and personalized to me from Renny Harlin.  How cool is that? 

My pal, Alex surprised me with a package containing it and several other Stallone-related autographs that I’m going to post on the SZ over the coming weeks.  Alex, as you’ve probably guessed is also known as LotofSly on the SZ message boards where he also serves as one of our moderators.  Alex has met more celebrities than anyone else I know, and he somehow always manages to get photos with them.  That’s in addition to being an all-around nice guy… and as nice as Alex is THAT has to be a full time job!