The #1 Sylvester Stallone Fan Site in the World!
PS – If you still haven’t got yours, they are available from Thomas Schomberg, the man who created the original Rocky sculpture, for “Rocky III” by clicking HERE.
Mark Kresel makes birdhouses and gives them away. It’s his hobby. He’s makes each house as a gift for someone and fashions it to reflect their personality. He’s made birdhouses for his friends as well as many famous celebrities such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mariah Carey, Shirley Temple, Bruce Springsteen, Hulk Hogan, Bon Jovi, Julie Andrews and others.
You can read all about Mr. Kresel’s unique hobby HERE. – Craig
Access Hollywood.com posted the recent article “12 Reasons To Head To The Movies In 2008″ and Rambo made the cut! Here’s what they had to say about it:January 25: “Rambo”
Posters are already cropping up featuring a spray painted imprint of Sylvester Stallone’s manly jaw and trademark “Rambo” bandana as the hype over the fourth installment of this film franchise begins to grow. Many doubted the box office legend could successfully revive “Rocky” as an over-50, but he did and he did to great effect. Now, it’s “Rambo’s” turn as the action packed Burmese jungle fighting journey hits the screens at the end of January.
For the full article click HERE. – Craig
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
Our POW this week is Sly from Rambo 2. – Craig
Larry Carroll over at MTV.com takes a look at Sly Stallone’s rough cut presentation of “Rambo.” You can check out the article by clicking HERE. – Craig
SZoner, Bill Pruitt checked in with… Hi Craig, Here’s my latest creation combining graphics in photoshop and a teaser of my latest oil painting which will be revealed soon. I wanted to convey in this ad that Rambo means business and that he will NOT be messed with.
John Hutchins at UGO.com attended an advance showing of “Rambo” and Sly was in attendance. Sly spoke before the screening about why he choose to revisit Rambo now, the push for realism, and concluded with… “Maybe it’s the last time I visit John Rambo, but I’m very glad you showed up tonight because we’re proud of the film, and I’m proud of everyone who was involved with it and…well…let the fun begin!” For the full report, click HERE. – Craig
A huge, nearly 80-foot-tall, “graffiti-inspired” poster for Rambo is currently on display at Seventh Avenue north of 47th Street in Times Square. You can read more about the poster HERE. – Craig
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: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