Category: Family

SLYFECTA

Craig / / 2001, Celebs, Family, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone, Planet Hollywood, Rocky 6, Rocky Musical, TV

The October 26th issue of Entertainment Weekly contains three Sly items!

#1 Sly Schemes Rocky may be down, but don’t count him out: MGM KO’d plans for Rocky 6 – the studio would only commit $10 million to the sequel – but franchise creator and star Sylvester Stallone is shopping other Italian Stallion-inspired projects. He’s pitching the networks a sitcom about a boxing priest: Father Lefty, which Stallone would produce but not star in, features a tough but loving man of the cloth. “It’s about a very eccentric priest who has his thumb on the pulse,” says the 55-year-old actor. “A real character who’s not far from Rocky.” He also thinks Rocky: The Musical could be a Broadway box office champ. “It would be very similar to the movie, but of course with songs,” says Stallone. “I’ll probably write the book.” Would Rocky belt out Survivor‘s “Eye of the Tiger“? “Absolutely Do-do, doo, doo,”Sly sings. “It’s the thrill of the fight.”

#2 Expecting Stop! Or my wife will deliver. Sylvester Stallone, 55, and model spouse Jennifer Flavin, 33, are expecting their third child. (A due date was not announced.) Daughters Sophia and Sistine are 5 and 3, respectively. Stallone also has two sons, Sage, 25, and Seargeoh, 22, from his first marriage.

#3 In the Encore section there is the above pic and an article about the birth of Planet Hollywood ten years ago.

-Craig Zablo
(October 20, 2001)

SLY QUINELLA

Craig / / 2001, Celebs, Family, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone
The October 22nd issue of The National Enquirer contains an article entitled Stupid Cupid which looks at celebrity mismatchs. It says this about Sly:

Sylvester Stallone & … Several Loves: When action flick stud-muffin Sly met statuesque Brigitte Nielsen while filming “Rocky IV” in 1985, he declared: “This gorgeous blonde is a towering monument to womanhood.” It was a temporary monument though, because the two hastily divorced in 1988. Afterward, Stallone summed it up: “Love makes you do stupid things like marrying people you shouldn’t.”
 Sly became engaged just a few weeks after meeting model Angie Everhart in 1995. “She’s gorgeous, she’s bright, and she’s my soul mate. I finally found someone I know is the right woman,” he crowed. “I haven’t known her very long, but I want to spend the rest of my life with her.” After breaking off the engagement less than two months later and taking up with Jennifer Flavin, Sly beat a retreat that Rambo would have been ashamed of: “Engagement? What engagement?” he asked.

Baby Makes Three for SLY and JENNIFER is the headline of an item in Mike Walker‘s All the Gossip column in the same issue. It goes on to say: Yo! It’s Da Stork! Sly Stallone and his wife Jennifer just found out their third bundle of joy will arrive around May 28! The couple has two daughters, but Sly says he loves girls and wants ANOTHER one!

– Craig Zablo (October 20, 2001)

JENNIFER FLAVIN Opens the Doors to the STALLONE House

Craig / / 2001, Family, Jennifer Flavin-Stallone

The May 8th issue of Hello contains the article: JENNIFER FLAVIN Opens the Doors to the New Hollywood Home She Shares with SYLVESTER STALLONE. The five page piece features an interview by Kathleen Beaulieu-Sclafani with eight photos by Ralph Merlino. Below are excerpts and quotes from the article/interview:

“Either SLY or I are always with the children.”

“I would love to have another daughter, but SLY would like to have two more.”Although JENNIFER‘s cosmetics business is flourishing and has made her a multimillionaire in her own right, her children SISTINE and SOPHIA and husband SYLVESTER are still her top priorities.

I feel I’m a very lucky lady. SLY is my best friend. He’s very funny, an excellent father and just fun to be around.”

Hello magazine originates in the UK. It can be found out most Barnes & Noble bookstores and the like. This issue is worth tracking down.

I’d love a chance to see all of SLY‘s memorabilia. He has some cool stuff on the shelves in the pic to the right that I’ve never seen before!

Thanks to Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes for the heads-up!

– Craig Zablo

Sly Interview in Parade

Craig / / 2001, Family

 

The April 22, 2001 issue of the Parade [Sunday Supplement] features a well-done interview withSYLVESTER STALLONE by Jane Ciabattari.

The interview contains seven photos [four reprinted here] and 2 1/2 pages of text. The interview features SLY talking about his career, choices that he has made, and his life.


Check out Parade.com.

“If this never happened, would I be able to survive? Yeah, I could paint and write and enjoy that. An artist dies twice. The second death is easy. But when people don’t appreciate you as a performer anymore, that’s very difficult. That’s one death. What to do?”
– SYLVESTER STALLONE from Parade interview 04/22/01

“Real love is when you become selfless and you’re more concerned about your mate’s or your children’s egos than your own.”
“There is nothing more exalting than requited love.”
“Now I’m a giver instead of a taker.”
– SYLVESTER STALLONE from Parade interview 04/22/01

My values have altered drastically.”
“Blazing guns hold little allure for me now.”
“Now I understand what is sacred.”
“I may not be at the top of my game with my career, but in my private life I am.”
– SYLVESTER STALLONE from Parade interview 04/22/01
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I can not urge you strongly enough to get a copy of this interview if you are a SYLVESTER STALLONE fan. I’ve included just some of the pics and enough quotes that you can see that SLY has given a lot of thought to where he has been and where he is going [in his life and career].

– Craig Zablo / John “Big” Beatty (April 22, 2001