{"id":585,"date":"2008-03-30T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-30T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=585"},"modified":"2008-03-30T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-30T15:51:00","slug":"sly-the-last-action-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/30\/sly-the-last-action-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly &#8211; The Last Action Hero?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2008\/March\/033008rocky.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2008\/March\/033008rocky.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Alan Granville<\/span> for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tvnz.co.nz<\/span> posts an article which explores why <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span> is the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> last true action hero<\/span>.  Here are some excerpts:<\/span>   <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/>* Step forward <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. Sylvester Stallone, 61 years old<\/span> and one of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">last true action heroes<\/span> we have left&#8230;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> no-one has been more successful and more consistent<\/span> in trying to make people explode or be pummelled than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span>.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">* <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> has <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">major Hollywood pedigree<\/span>. He was <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Oscar nominated<\/span> for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Actor<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Screenplay<\/span> for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rocky<\/span> back in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1976<\/span> (the movie went on to win <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Picture<\/span>). He <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">co-wrote and directed<\/span> all the subsequent sequels, including last year&#8217;s c<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ommercial and critical hit Rocky Balboa<\/span>, itself a major gamble which paid off.<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>* <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone <\/span>is also <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">incredibly popular around the world<\/span>. Even when films tank or do middling business in the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">USA<\/span> they still perform well elsewhere.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">* Another thing which is in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone&#8217;s favour<\/span> is that he comes across as a nice guy in interviews. He seems funny, self-effacing and happy to joke about his on screen image. He is also said to be highly intelligent and comes across as a guy you could go for a beer (or protein shake) with.<\/span>    <span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><\/p>\n<p>* <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> keeps bouncing back.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">For the full article click <a href=\"http:\/\/tvnz.co.nz\/view\/page\/536641\/1664001\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">HERE<\/span><\/a>. [Oh, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span> didn&#8217;t direct <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rocky V&#8221;<\/span> despite <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Mr. Granville<\/span> giving him credit for it.]  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8211; Craig<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Granville for tvnz.co.nz posts an article which explores why Sly is the last true action hero. Here are some excerpts: * Step forward Mr. Sylvester Stallone, 61 years old and one of the last true action heroes we have left&#8230; no-one has been more successful and more consistent in trying to make people explode [&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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-9r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585","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=585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}