{"id":9556,"date":"2004-04-30T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=9556"},"modified":"2018-02-18T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T13:57:29","slug":"sly-in-entertainment-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/30\/sly-in-entertainment-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sly in Entertainment Weekly"},"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\/2003\/apr\/043004ew.jpg?resize=399%2C288\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">The current double issue( April 30, 2004 # 762\/763 ) Entertainment Weekly &#8216; Summer Movie issue contains a couple of Sly items. Jazz sent in two pics and some excerpts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\"><img width=\"399\" height=\"288\" align=\"left\" \/>THE BOYS WHO BURNED A BILLION DOLLARS, How two wild and crazy guys seduced stars for their fledgling studio, spent oodles of cash, and blew up a lot of stuff. Including their own white-hot careers. By DANIEL FIERMAN<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">&#8220;They promised him the film would shoot for three months, and it ended up [ delaying ] Rocky 3. He was really pissed off. One day, right in the middle of this small town in Canada, Sylvester started ranting and raving and swearing a blue streak, &#8221; says Kotcheff.<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"bodytext\">Vajna was the one who saw something in the First Blood script, and they both agreed Sylvester Stallone, an actor fresh off Nighthawks, should star.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"bodytext\">In 1985, the First Blood sequel turned into a money-spouting geyser: Rambo grossed $ 150 million&#8211;and yielded Rambo bedsheets, Rambo action figures, even, frighteningly, a Rambo Saturday morning cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Sly was at the pool [ of the Hotel du Cap ] wit all these topless sunbathers surrounding him, and I pitch him the story and he says, &#8216; I love it! I&#8217;m on board.&#8217; And Mario said, &#8216; Good ! Because I already ordered fireworks with the name of the movie on it.&#8217; &#8221; Later that evening, the title of de<\/span> <span class=\"bodytext\">Souza&#8217;s film, Isobar, lit up the night sky.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" width=\"80%\" \/>\n<div class=\"bodytext\" align=\"left\">&#8211; <b>Craig<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<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\/2003\/apr\/043004ew2.jpg?resize=433%2C384\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current double issue( April 30, 2004 # 762\/763 ) Entertainment Weekly &#8216; Summer Movie issue contains a couple of Sly items. 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