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Our POW [Picture of the Week] of Sly comes to us from the collection of Loghman Sheyda.

– Craig

This rare POW [Picture of the Week] of Sly and Renny Harlin comes to us from the collection of Loghman Sheyda.

I’m posting the update early this week since I’ll be out of town this weekend. John Beatty, Jazz, and Papa Staswill be watching over everything. Big Beatty will post any breaking news until I return next weekend!

– Craig

Clearly the French have taste.

Sly‘s love of dogs didn’t end with the beloved Butkus. Meet Curly.

Who would of thought this guy would spearhead a state of the art nutrional supplement company someday. Proof of what hard work and dedication can accomplish. Stallone INSTONE !

Thanks to JAZZMAN for the pictures and captions!

Have a great week all!

-Craig

Ernest Jazzman Resendes sent in the above from the Instone page.  Thanks to Jazz for the scan! – Craig

This week’s POW comes from Ernest Jazzman Resendes .

Thanks! – Craig Zablo

From the on-line edition of the Fairield Daily Republic [Fairfield-Suisun City, California]

Stallone still a heavyweight after 25 years
by Ted Sillanppa

From the moment the original “Rocky” movie ended with the lead character standing after 15 rounds just to prove “he weren’t another bum from the neighborhood” in south Philadelphia, Sylvester Stallone became the preeminent film star of the last 25 years.

Maybe Stallone vehicles like “Judge Dredd” and “Oscar” allowed Al Pacino or Tom Hanks to move their filmographies past Sly‘s body of work. Maybe, but not in our house. Once he told Apollo Creed that he “didn’t want no rematch,” and stood in the ring screaming for his homely girlfriend Adrian (Talia Shire), he became our guy.

Stallone wrote “Rocky” and had the stones, even though flat broke, to sell it only to a studio that would allow him to star as the down-and-out bum who gets in improbable chance to fight the heavyweight champion.

Stallone became Rocky Balboa.

Actors are always trying to play athletes, but Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig didn’t leave folks wondering if Coop could really play for the New York Yankees. Burt Reynolds didn’t get an NFL tryout after either “Semi-Tough” or “The Longest Yard.” People actually wondered if Stallone could hold his own against a real professional fighter, though. He looked that good.

OK, so we had a soft spot for the wee, little fella when we learned the celluloid heavyweight champion is 5-foot-7 and shorter than the shortest member of a family of vertically challenged males. His weakness for a beautiful woman was appreciated almost as much, no a lot more, than his interest in the arts.

We love Sly.

So no one here cares that the Philadelphia Eagles had to put franchise history in sad perspective by asking Stallone to show up before Monday’s game to play the role of Philadelphia sports hero and get the crowd going. We’re just happy he got back into the spotlight – at 57, pounding the heavy bag and working hard in the ring in an ABC “Monday Night Football” segment about pride, pain, pleasure and toughness.

Yes, we’d rush to see a sixth installment of the “Rocky” films and, oh, if Sly got into the ring at that height and that age to show us that not all movie tough guys are prima donnas like Tom Cruise, running for governor in California or watching punk’ish Ashton Kutcher date his ex-wife. Cruise, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis would have to yield, permanently, to Stallone.

Yo! Adrian! He did it!

Today CNN, Dark Horizons, and the Internet Movie Database have all reported that SLY STALLONE will be back in “Rambo IV.”

According to the reports Miramax‘s Bob Weinstein has stated that a budget of around $50 million is expected to tell the story of Rambo taking on drug dealers in a U.S. government building. The script will be re-worked this summer and SLY will return to play John Rambo.

Before we all get too excited, we should consider the following:

#1. SLY has not announced his return for the fourth film.

#2. Garth at Dark Horizons is basing his report on tips sent in by two fans who read it at IMDB.com.

#3. The IMDB item quotes Bob Weinstein. Weinstein was also quoted earlier this year about the same thing — that the script was being reworked and that it was HOPED that SLY would return. Right after that announcement was made  SLY was quoted as saying he had no plans to return to Rambo.

I think that most likely the IMDB item was based on the earlier report, or that Mr. Weinstein is again hoping to get fans [and possibly SLY] interested in a fourth Rambo.

In other words…until I hear it from an official source, I’ll consider it to be simply a rumor.

best,

– Craig Zablo

The August 2001 issue of Premiere has a feature called “The 50 Greatest Movie Posters of All Time.”

Was there any doubt that Rocky made the list?– Craig Zablo (July 15, 2001)