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Today Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd takes us Over the Top!
Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions. My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played. We’re well on our way!
You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.
Recently I received the following e-mail from SZoner, Didier Vandewalle.
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Hi Craig,
I hope you are well.
I found a video today of a Japanese anime called Miss Monochrome. Sly is appearing after 1:57.
http://www.anitube.se/video/67235/Miss-Monochrome-10
Thanks again for your good work on the site.
Didier Vandewalle
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Lincoln Hawk in anime! Thanks Didier. – Craig
On July 29, 2014, Darrick Thomas at Zimbio posted The 50 Most Bad Ass Action Hero Names of All Time. Sly played or had a connection in creating 7 of them! – Craig
On July 6, 2014, Entertainment Tonight recognized Sly’s birthday and posted The 12 Craziest Character Names Created by Sylvester Stallone.
Rob Hoskins checked in with these cool candids of Sly from Over the Top. Here’s what he had to say…
Hey Craig,Just wanted to send you this completely 1 of a kind pic taken in 1986 when Sly was working on Over The Top. My Aunt got close enough to take this shot and described Sly as “loving the crowd” and making the filming really fun for those lucky enough to be there in Vegas. She said he signed several items and took photos with lots of fans that day. An underrated movie from an awesome time in Sly’s career.Peace,Rob Hoskins
Thanks Rob! If you’d like to see a bigger version of the last four pics, click here.
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.
Manny Aguilera makes his first, but not last appearance in my Stallone Sketch Gallery with his take on Sly as Lincoln Hawk from Over the Top.
I highly recommend Manny to sketch collectors. He’s fast, his prices are reasonable and he’s one of the genuine nice guys!. – Craig
On August 22, 2013, Television Without Pity posted 5 Other Sylvester Stallone Characters That Need a TV Show.
On July 8, 2013, Flavorwire posted So Bad It’s Good: Sylvester Stallone, Arm Wrestling, and ’80s Nostalgia in ‘Over the Top’ by Jason Bailey. – Craig
Those rarely seen movie posters for Over the Top appeared in the article, Movie Poster Rejects You’ve Never Seen, posted on May 22, 2012, posted at the San Diego Reader. They also have a smaller Rocky 5 poster posted that I like better than the one used for the movie’s release.