Category: Rocky

Rocky Statue Special!

Craig / / Rocky, Sly Fan
Hey SZoners!

The holidays are quickly approaching and I wanted to remind everyone that Rocky sculptures are still available through A. Thomas Schomberg studios. These statues were created by Mr. Schomberg [who created the original Rocky sculpture seen in the Rocky movies] in collaboration with Sylvester Stallone and MGM studios. Here’s my interview with Mr. Schomberg. [part two of the interview is here] for the SZ.

Mr. Schomberg and his lovely wife, Cynthia, are offering the following discounts for statues purchased between November 26th, 2008 to January 7th, 2009:

20″ ROCKY – Bronze Plated – $468 reduced to $395 plus free shipping in the US!
12″ ROCKY – Resin and Hand Painted – $98 reduced to $89 plus free shipping in the US!

Limited Supply Available – International orders please inquire as to shipping costs.


Remember, if you’ve purchases a statue, I’d love to post a picture of you with it! – Craig

Rocky Minimates

Craig / / 2008, Rocky
The ad above appears in the August 2008 issue of Previews which goes out to comic and specialty shops throughout the USA. If you’re interested in getting them, let your local shop know! – Craig

Rocky #1 Again

Craig / / 2008, Honors, Rocky
Here is Sly as drawn by the uber-talented, Mort Drucker for the August 2008 issue of Muscle & Fitness. This is page one of a two page spread that also features Arnold, Kurt Russell and Jean-Claude Van Damme. The article looks at the Top 10 Movie Training Montages and rates “Rocky” as #1. Who could argue with that? – Craig

Rocky Wins Yet Again

Craig / / 2008, Honors, Rocky
“Rocky” has been crowned the Best Sports Movie Ever in a survey by LoveFilm.com. It was a landslide victory with “Rocky” earning 20% of all votes cast! Take that “Raging Bull,” “Field of Drams,” and “Million Dollar Baby”! For the full details click HERE. – Craig

Rocky: One of the Best Movie Endings

Craig / / 2008, Honors, Rocky
Deke Farrow, a writer for McClatchy Newspapers, looks back at some of the great movie endings of all time. He chooses Rocky and says:

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) crying out for his wife (Talia Shire) after his bloody bout with Apollo Creed in “Rocky” (1976).

–“Adriaaaaan”

For the full article, click HERE. – Craig

Burt Young Reflects

Craig / / 2007, Rocky
Stephen Williams wrote a great little piece on Burt Young for Newsday.com. Here’s what is said about Sly and appearing in the Rocky movies:

“Rocky” soon followed. Young had worked with the original’s producers, Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, which led to Stallone selecting the plucky Young to play the character – Paulie was Rocky’s cinematic brother-in-law – that would span all six “Rockys.”


“I’m not Paulie,” said Young, “but there’s a part of Paulie in all of us … cowardice, bravado, false bravado. And I knew how to beat the drum to make the guy interesting and ugly and pathetic.”

Young initially balked at the invitation to do the first sequel – “I didn’t want to be part of an ensemble,” he said – but eventually agreed. “It wasn’t the money,” he says. “It don’t mean that much to me, I find a way to get by, and I find a way to blow it.”

Will he see the new “Rambo” with Stallone when it opens Jan. 25?

“You know,” he said, and this is why you have to love Burt Young, “I’ve never seen a ‘Rambo.’“

Burt Young on Paulie, Rocky, and Sly:

“I first met Stallone, I was in the studio commissary, he comes to my table, he says, ‘Mr. Young, I’m Sylvester Stallone, I wrote “Rocky.” You gotta do a part, you gotta do a part.’

“I says, ‘Shush, whaddaya doin’? Let me twist their arms [the producers] a little bit, lemme make a buck.’ And he lit up. Turns out I was the highest-paid actor in the first one.

“Stallone wrote exquisitely; he wrote street prose. I think he saw me when he wrote it. Like Arthur Miller, he’d cut the commas off. You’d say, hey, he saying somethin’ without the commas.

“Seventeen years after ‘Rocky V,’ we came back [for ‘Rocky Balboa’], and it was pretty sentimental for me. Stallone was […] Michelangelo painting the chapel. He wouldn’t let anything alone. He was a force. It was touching.”

For the full article click HERE. – Craig

Rocky Musical in Development

Craig / / 2007, Rocky
According to Playbill On-Line, the long discussed Rocky Musical is now in development. It will be based on the original Academy Award Winning movie written and starring Sylvester Stallone. Although Sly will not star in the musical, he has “given it his blessing.”

Already attached to the project are Tony Award winner Meehan who will adapt the musical (he also took on the writing chores for the musicals Annie, The Producers and Young Frankenstein) along with the Tony Award-winning team of lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty.

Fans will be happy to know that “Gonna Fly Now,” by Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins [which was nominated for an Academy Award] – will be a part of the score! For complete details click HERE. – Craig