{"id":435,"date":"2007-11-18T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=435"},"modified":"2007-11-18T08:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T12:18:00","slug":"frank-stallone-a-surprise-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/18\/frank-stallone-a-surprise-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Stallone a Surprise Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/Nov\/111807frank.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/Nov\/111807frank.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial;font-size:100%;\" class=\"t\" >Frank Stallone a Surprise Hit in &#8220;Fred Claus&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span class=\"tt\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Tuesday November 13, 2:11 pm ET<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\">\n<div  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">LOS ANGELES, CA&#8211;(MARKET WIRE)&#8211;Nov 13, 2007 &#8212; Frank Stallone (&#8220;Barfly,&#8221; &#8220;Tombstone&#8221;) has been getting rave reviews for his appearance in the Christmas Hit &#8220;Fred Claus.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Stallone, a Grammy and Golden Globe-Nominated Artist, was asked last year to appear in the film as himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Stallone says, &#8220;At first I was a little leery because of the bad experience I had as a series regular on the TV sitcom &#8216;Movie Stars&#8217; in which I played myself.&#8221;<\/span><\/div>\n<p  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Frank goes on to say, &#8220;I had all but given up on the film business after almost 60 films. I wasn&#8217;t getting any work and I couldn&#8217;t find an agent and no one seemed to show any interest, so I rededicated myself to my music full time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Stallone was nominated for Best Song for the Film &#8220;Staying Alive&#8221; and for best sound track for the same film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p  style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Stallone was also highly considered for a Best Supporting Actor nomination by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences for his role as Eddie The Bartender in &#8220;Barfly.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p face=\"arial\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:100%;\">Frank continues, &#8220;I must say working on &#8216;Fred Claus&#8217; was a delightful experience. I wish all film sets were as joyful.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Stallone a Surprise Hit in &#8220;Fred Claus&#8221;Tuesday November 13, 2:11 pm ET LOS ANGELES, CA&#8211;(MARKET WIRE)&#8211;Nov 13, 2007 &#8212; Frank Stallone (&#8220;Barfly,&#8221; &#8220;Tombstone&#8221;) has been getting rave reviews for his appearance in the Christmas Hit &#8220;Fred Claus.&#8221; Stallone, a Grammy and Golden Globe-Nominated Artist, was asked last year to appear in the film as [&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":[21,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-frank-stallone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}