{"id":3726,"date":"2011-07-10T08:34:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T12:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2011-07-10T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T12:34:40","slug":"sly-as-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/10\/sly-as-rocky\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly as Rocky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/july\/070111rocky_adrian.png?resize=475%2C723\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">On <strong>July 1, 2011<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Who2<\/span><\/a><\/strong> posted a piece titled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who2.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/from-the-movie-archives-vincent-canby-slams-rocky.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;From the Movie Archives: Vincent Camby Slams &#8216;Rocky'&#8221;<\/span><\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0 The piece then quotes <strong>Camby<\/strong> who said&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mr. Stallone&#8217;s Rocky is less a performance than an impersonation. It&#8217;s all superficial mannerisms and movements, reminding me of Rodney Dangerfield doing a nightclub monologue&#8230; Throughout the movie we are asked to believe that his Rocky is compassionate, interesting, even heroic, though the character we see is simply an unconvincing actor imitating a lug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article goes on to say that <strong>Roger Ebert<\/strong> compared <strong>Sly&#8217;s performance<\/strong> in <strong><em>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> to that of a &#8220;young <strong>Marlon Brando<\/strong>&#8221; and that &#8220;<strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> got the last laugh, in any case: <em><strong>Rocky<\/strong><\/em> won the <strong>Oscar<\/strong> for B<strong>est Picture<\/strong>, and <strong>Stallone<\/strong> was nominated as B<strong>est Actor<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">You can read the whole\u00a0piece and see a<strong> Rocky<\/strong> photo gallery by clicking over to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.who2.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/from-the-movie-archives-vincent-canby-slams-rocky.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">the original article<\/span><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, 2011, Who2 posted a piece titled, &#8220;From the Movie Archives: Vincent Camby Slams &#8216;Rocky&#8217;&#8221;.\u00a0 The piece then quotes Camby who said&#8230; Mr. Stallone&#8217;s Rocky is less a performance than an impersonation. It&#8217;s all superficial mannerisms and movements, reminding me of Rodney Dangerfield doing a nightclub monologue&#8230; Throughout the movie we are asked [&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":[93,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Y6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","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=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3727,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}