{"id":11446,"date":"2001-02-24T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-25T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=11446"},"modified":"2019-12-06T22:35:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T02:35:55","slug":"rocky-the-best-of-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2001\/02\/24\/rocky-the-best-of-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCKY: &#8220;THE BEST OF THE BEST&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The February 23, 2001 issue of Entertainment Weekly has an article titled &#8220;The Best of the Best&#8221; in which EW ranks the 72 Best Picture Oscar winners. Here&#8217;s what they had to say about Rocky:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> 43 ROCKY 1976<br> Directed by John G. Avildsen Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire Nominations 9 Wins 3 Stiffest Competition Taxi Driver, Network<br>  A likable triumph-of-the-underdog tale, but why this boxing fable and not Scorsese&#8217;s Raging Bull four years later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">+++<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Let me begin by pointing out a small error\u2026 did you catch it? The listing says that Rocky was nominated for 9 Oscars but the right number is 10! I&#8217;ve already e-mailed them about the error &#8211; so let&#8217;s talk about the article\u2026<br> Articles like these are written to encourage discussion about the subjective rankings of personal favorites. So let me say that, personally, I feel that Rocky should be in the Top 10 and without a doubt the Top 20 &#8212; I am happy to see that the editors of the piece ranked Rocky higher than many past winners (even if they didn&#8217;t &#8220;get it exactly right.&#8221;).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Craig Zablo (February 24, 2001)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The February 23, 2001 issue of Entertainment Weekly has an article titled &#8220;The Best of the Best&#8221; in which EW ranks the 72 Best Picture Oscar winners. Here&#8217;s what they had to say about Rocky: 43 ROCKY 1976 Directed by John G. Avildsen Starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire Nominations 9 Wins 3 Stiffest Competition Taxi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2YC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11448,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions\/11448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}