{"id":5075,"date":"2012-08-25T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2012-08-25T18:31:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:31:31","slug":"5075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/25\/5075\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stallone, the Dalai Lama &#038; Barry Koltnow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2011\/mar\/032411sly.png?resize=475%2C692\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"692\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">On <strong>August 20, 2012<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolathenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The Olathe News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolathenews.com\/2012\/08\/20\/1636552\/sylvester-stallone-the-dalai-lama.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Sylvester Stallone, The Dalai Lama and Me<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a> by <strong>Barry Koltnow<\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty insightful piece.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a quote from Sly&#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;After &#8216;Rocky,&#8221; I should have been writing and directing my own movies, like Clint Eastwood, but I took a different route. I tried to be a more diversified actor, and I didn&#8217;t realize that you are pretty much defined by your initial impact on this industry. After &#8220;Rocky,&#8221; that&#8217;s who I was. That&#8217;s the role that the industry coveted, but I tried to fight it. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;I was being challenged by the media not to be a one-note actor, and then they vilified me when I tried to do comedies and other films that were outside my strengths. I don&#8217;t know why the media does that to actors. They don&#8217;t do it to athletes. You never hear anybody telling Tom Brady that he&#8217;s a great quarterback, but then questioning how good a defensive end he is. No one expects him to play a different position. He does what he does well.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">&#8220;I should have stayed where I belonged, in the action genre. Everybody has a niche. I shouldn&#8217;t have been so damn artistically greedy. I thought I could run the table on all those different roles, which was self-destructive. I should have been happy to just be the action guy.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Nice piece, <strong>Mr. Koltnow! &#8211; Craig<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 20, 2012, The Olathe News posted Sylvester Stallone, The Dalai Lama and Me by Barry Koltnow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a pretty insightful piece.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a quote from Sly&#8230; &#8220;After &#8216;Rocky,&#8221; I should have been writing and directing my own movies, like Clint Eastwood, but I took a different route. 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