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Sylvester Gardenzio
Stallone (pronounced /stəˈloʊn/; born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly
Stallone,[1] is an American actor, filmmaker and screenwriter. Stallone
is known for his machismo and Hollywood action roles. Two of the notable
characters he has portrayed include boxer Rocky Balboa and soldier John
Rambo. The Rocky and Rambo franchises, along with several other films,
helped his reputation as an actor and box office earnings.
Stallone's film Rocky was inducted
into the National Film Registry as well as having its film props placed in the
Smithsonian Museum. Stallone's use of the front entrance to the Philadelphia
Museum of Art in the Rocky series led the area to be nicknamed the Rocky Steps.
Philadelphia has a statue of his Rocky character placed permanently near the
museum, on the right side before the steps.
****
Born Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone
July 6, 1946 (1946-07-06) (age 64)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation Actor, director,
screenwriter
Years active 1970–present
Spouse(s) Sasha Czack (m.
1974–1985)
Brigitte Nielsen (m. 1985–1987)
Jennifer Flavin (m. 1997–present)
****
Early
life
Stallone was born on July 6, 1946
in New York City,[2] the son of Frank Stallone, Sr., an Italian-American
hairdresser, and Jackie Stallone (born Jacqueline Labofish), an astrologer,
former dancer and promoter of women's wrestling. He is the brother of actor and
musician Frank Stallone. Stallone's grandfather was born in Gioia del Colle, in
the region of Puglia, Italy, and emigrated to the United States as a child,[3]
while Stallone's mother was born in Washington, D.C. of French and Russian
Jewish descent.[4][5][6]
Complications his mother suffered
during labor forced her obstetricians to use two pairs of forceps during his
birth; misuse of these accidentally severed a nerve and caused paralysis in
parts of Stallone's face, resulting in his signature slurred speech and drooping
lower lip.[7] Between the ages of two and five Stallone was boarded in Queens,
seeing his parents only on weekends. In 1951, he returned to live with his
parents in Silver Spring, Maryland, where they operated a chain of beauty
salons. In 1961, he was enrolled in Devereux Manor High School, a private school
for problem children located in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, and following graduation
enrolled in a beauty school. [citation needed]
In the 1960s, Stallone dropped out
of the beauty school, after winning a scholarship for the American College of
Switzerland in Leysin, where he studied drama and was well received in school
productions. Returning to America he enrolled in the Theater Arts Department at
University of Miami for three years. He came within a few credit hours of
graduation before he decided to drop out and pursue a career writing screenplays
under the pen names Q. Moonblood and J.J. Deadlock (under neither of which names
he sold any scripts) while at the same time taking bit parts in movies
Career
Italian
Stallion and Score
Stallone had his first starring
role in the softcore pornography feature film The Party at Kitty and Stud's
(1970). He was paid US$200 for two days' work. Stallone later explained that he
had done the film out of desperation after being bounced out of his apartment
and finding himself homeless for several days. In the actor's words, "it was
either do that movie or rob someone, because I was at the end - the very end -
of my rope".[8] The film was released several years later as Italian Stallion,
in order to cash on Stallone's newfound fame (the new title was taken from
Stallone's nickname since Rocky and a line from the film).
An "uncut" version of the film was
released in 2007, purporting to show actual hardcore footage of Stallone, but
according to trade journal AVN, the hardcore scenes were inserts not involving
the actor.[9] In 2008, scenes from Party at Kitty and Stud's surfaced in a
German version of Roger Colmont's hardcore-film White Fire (1976).[10]
Stallone also starred in the erotic
off-Broadway stage play Score which ran for 23 performances at the Martinique
Theatre from October 28 - November 15, 1971 and was later made into a film by
Radley Metzger.
Early
film roles, 1970–1975
In addition to The Party at Kitty
and Stud's, in 1970 Stallone appeared in the film No Place to Hide, which was
re-cut and retitled Rebel, the second version featuring Stallone as its star.
After the style of Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?, this film, in 1990, was
re-edited from outtakes from the original movie and newly shot matching footage,
then redubbed into an award-winning parody of itself titled A Man Called...
Rainbo. [11] Again starring Stallone, this self-parody was directed by David
Casci and produced by Jeffrey Hilton. A Man Called...Rainbo won Silver Awards at
the Chicago International Film Festival and Worldfest - Houston, and was
featured on Entertainment Tonight along with its credited star, Sylvester
Stallone. It received a Thumbs-Up on Siskel & Ebert, and was recommended by
Michael Medved on the popular movie review show, Sneak Previews.
Stallone's other first few film
roles were minor, and included brief uncredited appearances in Woody Allen's
Bananas (1971) as a subway thug, in the psychological thriller Klute (1971) as
an extra dancing in a club, and in the Jack Lemmon film The Prisoner of Second
Avenue (1975) as a youth. In the Lemmon film, Jack Lemmon chases, tackles and
mugs Stallone, thinking that Stallone's character is a pickpocket. He had his
second starring role in The Lords of Flatbush, in 1974, in whose script he had a
hand in writing. [citation needed] In 1975, he played supporting roles in
Farewell, My Lovely; Capone; and Death Race 2000. He made guest appearances on
the TV series Police Story and Kojak.
Success
with Rocky, 1976
Stallone gained worldwide fame with
his starring role in the smash hit Rocky (1976). On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw
the Muhammad Ali–Chuck Wepner fight, which inspired the foundation idea of
Rocky. That night Stallone went home, and in three days he had written the
script for Rocky. After that, he tried to sell the script with the intention of
playing the lead role. Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler in particular liked the
script. A highly entertaining story about how Rocky was made was widely
circulated after the film was completed. As the story goes, a broke Stallone
refused ever larger sums of money (that he desperately needed) to sell the
highly valued script because he insisted—against studio wishes—that he play the
lead role. The studio wanted a name star. According to the legend, the studio
finally relented by paying Stallone a modest $18,000 for the script with the
agreement that the film would be made on a shoestring budget. It was revealed
years later that this story was largely made up, a marketing gimmick concocted
by the studio to reinforce the underdog theme of the film. Rocky went through a
development process that was much more mundane than this rags-to-riches fable
would suggest. Rocky was nominated for ten Academy Awards in all, including Best
Actor and Best Original Screenplay nominations for Stallone. Rocky went on to
win the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Directing and Best Film
Editing.[12]
Rocky,
Rambo and new film roles, 1978–1989
The sequel Rocky II, which Stallone
had also written and directed (replacing John G. Avildsen, who won an Academy
Award for directing the first film) was released in 1979 and also became a major
success, grossing US$200 million.
Apart from the Rocky films,
Stallone did many other films in the late 1970s and early 1980s which were
critically acclaimed but were not successful at the box office. He received
critical praise for films such as F.I.S.T. (1978), a social, epic styled drama
in which he plays a warehouse worker, very loosely modeled on James Hoffa, who
becomes involved in the labor union leadership, and Paradise Alley (1978), a
family drama in which he plays one of three brothers who is a con artist and who
helps his other brother who is involved in wrestling. Stallone made his
directorial debut directing Paradise Alley.
In the early 1980s, he starred
alongside British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory (1981), a sports
drama in which he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer
tournament. Stallone then made the action thriller film Nighthawks (1981), in
which he plays a New York city cop who plays a cat and mouse game with a foreign
terrorist, played by Rutger Hauer.
Stallone had another major
franchise success as Vietnam veteran John Rambo, a former Green Beret, in the
action-war film First Blood (1982). The first installment of Rambo was both a
critical and box office success. The critics praised Stallone's performance,
saying he made Rambo seem human, as opposed to the way he is portrayed in the
book of the same name, in First Blood and in the other films. Three Rambo
sequels Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988) and Rambo followed.
Although box office hits, they met with much less critical praise than the
original. He also continued his box office success with the Rocky franchise and
wrote, directed and starred in two more sequels to the series: Rocky III (1982)
and Rocky IV (1985). Stallone has portrayed these two characters in a total of
ten films. In preperation for these roles, Stallone embarked upon a vigorous
training regime which often meant six days a week in the gym and further sit ups
in the evenings. Stallone claims to have got his body fat percentage down to his
all time low of 2.8% for Rocky III.[13]
It was during this time period that
Stallone's work cultivated a strong overseas following. He also attempted,
albeit unsuccessfully, roles in different genres when he co-wrote and starred in
the comedy film Rhinestone (1984) where he played a wannabe country music singer
and the drama film Over the Top (1987) where he played a truck driver who enters
an arm wrestling competition to impress his estranged son. For the Rhinestone
soundtrack, he performed a song. These films did not do well at the box office
and were poorly received by critics. It was around 1985 that Stallone was signed
to a remake of the 1939 James Cagney classic Angels With Dirty Faces. The film
would form part of his multi-picture deal with Cannon Pictures and was to
co-star Christopher Reeve and be directed by Menahem Golan. The re-making of
such a beloved classic was met with disapproval by Variety Magazine and horror
by top critic Roger Ebert and so Cannon opted to make Cobra instead. Cobra
(1986) and Tango and Cash (1989) did solid business domestically but overseas
they did blockbuster business grossing over $100 million in foreign markets and
over $160 million worldwide. The Rocky and Rambo franchises at the end of the
decade were billion dollar franchises internationally. [citation needed]
1990–2002
With the then recent success of
Lock Up and Tango and Cash, at the start of the 1990s Stallone starred in the
fifth installment of the Rocky franchise Rocky V which was considered a box
office disappointment and was also disliked by fans as an unworthy entry in the
series. It was intended to have been the last installment in the franchise at
the time. [citation needed]
After starring in the critical and
commercial disasters Oscar (1991) and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992) (which
he claimed was the worst film he appeared in) [citation needed] during the early
90s, he made a comeback in 1993 with the hit Cliffhanger which was a moderate
success in the U.S. but more successful worldwide, grossing over US$255 million.
Later that year he had a hit with the futuristic action film Demolition Man
which grossed in excess of $158 million worldwide. His string of hits continued
with 1994's The Specialist (over $170 million worldwide gross).
In 1995, he played the comic book
based title character Judge Dredd, who was taken from the British comic book
2000 AD in the film of the same name. His overseas box office appeal saved the
domestic box office disappointment of Judge Dredd with a worldwide tally of $113
million. He also appeared in the thriller Assassins (1995) with co stars
Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas. In 1996, he starred in the disaster film
Daylight which made only $33 million in the U.S but was a major hit overseas
taking in over $126 million, totalling $159,212,469 worldwide.
That same year Stallone, along with
an all-star cast of celebrities, appeared in the Trey Parker and Matt Stone
short comedy film Your Studio and You commissioned by the Seagram Company for a
party celebrating their acquisition of Universal Studios and the MCA
Corporation. Stallone speaks in his Rocky Balboa voice with subtitles
translating what he was saying. At one point, Stallone starts yelling about how
can they use his Balboa character, that he left it in the past; the narrator
calms him with a wine cooler and calling him, "brainiac." In response, Stallone
says, "Thank you very much." He then looks at the wine cooler and exclaims,
"Stupid cheap studio!"[14]
Following his breakthrough
performance in Rocky, critic Roger Ebert had once said Stallone could become the
next Marlon Brando, though he never quite recaptured the critical acclaim
achieved with Rocky. Stallone did, however, go on to receive much acclaim for
his role in the crime drama Cop Land (1997) in which he starred alongside Robert
De Niro and Ray Liotta, but the film was only a minor success at the box office.
His performance led him to win the Stockholm International Film Festival Best
Actor Award. In 1998 he did voice-over work for the computer-animated film Antz,
which grossed over $90 million domestically.
As the new millennium began,
Stallone starred in the thriller Get Carter — a remake of the 1971 British
Michael Caine film of the same name—but the film was poorly received by both
critics and audiences. Stallone's career declined considerably after his
subsequent films Driven (2001), Avenging Angelo (2002) and D-Tox (2002) also
underachieved expectations to do well at the box office and were poorly received
by critics.
In 2000, Stallone received a
special "Worst Actor of the Century" Razzie award, citing "95% of Everything
He's Ever Done" rather than an individual movie. By 2000, Stallone had been
awarded four Worst Actor Razzie awards for individual movies, a "Worst Screen
Couple" Razzie, and a "Worst Actor of the Decade" Razzie for the 1980s.[15] He
had been nominated for the Worst Actor award for nine consecutive years from
1984 to 1992.
2003–2005
In 2003, he played a villainous
role in the third installment of the Spy Kids trilogy Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
which was a huge box office success (almost $200 million worldwide). Stallone
also had a cameo appearance in the 2003 French film Taxi 3 as a passenger.
Following several poorly reviewed
box office flops, Stallone started to regain prominence for his supporting role
in the neo-noir crime drama Shade (2003) which was only released in a limited
fashion but was praised by critics.[16] He was also attached to star and direct
a film tentatively titled Rampart Scandal, which was to be about the murder of
rappers Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. and the surrounding Los Angeles
Police Department corruption scandal.[17] It was later titled Notorious but was
shelved.[18]
In 2005, he was the co-presenter,
alongside Sugar Ray Leonard, of the NBC Reality television boxing series The
Contender. That same year he also made a guest appearance in two episodes of the
television series Las Vegas. In 2005, Stallone also inducted wrestling icon Hulk
Hogan, who appeared in Rocky III as a wrestler named Thunderlips, into the WWE
Hall of Fame; Stallone was also the person who offered Hogan the cameo in Rocky
III.[19]
Revisiting Rocky and Rambo, 2006–2008
After a three year hiatus from
films, Stallone made a comeback in 2006 with the sixth installment of his
successful Rocky series, Rocky Balboa, which was a critical and commercial hit.
After the critical and box office failure of the previous installment Rocky V,
Stallone had decided to write, direct and star in a sixth installment which
would be a more appropriate climax to the series. The total domestic box office
came to $70.3 million (and $155.7 million worldwide).[20] The budget of the
movie was only $24 million. His performance in Rocky Balboa has been praised and
garnered mostly positive reviews.[21]
Stallone's newest release was the
fourth installment of his other successful movie franchise, Rambo, with the
sequel being titled simply Rambo. The film opened in 2,751 theaters on January
25, 2008, grossing $6,490,000 on its opening day and $18,200,000 over its
opening weekend. Its current box office stands at $42,653,401 in the US and
$112,481,829 worldwide.
Asked in February 2008 which of the
icons he would rather be remembered for, Stallone said "it's a tough one, but
Rocky is my first baby, so Rocky."[22]
Other
film work
Stallone's debut as a director came
in 1978 with Paradise Alley, which he also wrote and starred in. In addition, he
directed Staying Alive (the sequel to Saturday Night Fever), along with Rocky
II, Rocky III, Rocky IV, Rocky Balboa, and Rambo. In August 2005, Stallone
released his book Sly Moves which claimed to be a guide to fitness and nutrition
as well as a candid insight into his life and works from his own perspective.
The book also contained many photographs of Stallone throughout the years as
well as pictures of him performing exercises. In addition to writing all six
Rocky films, Stallone also wrote Cobra, Driven, and Rambo. He has co-written
several other films, such as F.I.S.T., Rhinestone, Over the Top, and the first
three Rambo films. His last major success as a co-writer came with 1993's
Cliffhanger. In addition, Stallone has continued to express his passion in
directing a film on Edgar Allan Poe's life, a script he has been preparing for
years. The movie, called Poe, is to be produced by Avi Lerner and will feature
Robert Downey Jr. [citation needed] Stallone will also be making a fifth Rambo
film after the success of the fourth one in 2008. In July 2009, he appeared in a
cameo in the Bollywood movie Kambakkht Ishq where he played himself, for which
he has been nominated by the Indian version of Razzies, Golden Kela Awards.[23]
Stallone will also provide the voice of a lion in Kevin James's planned comedy
The Zookeeper. Stallone has also mentioned that he would like to adapt a Nelson
DeMille novel, The Lion's Game and James Byron Huggin's novel Hunter, which
Stallone had the film rights for several years and originally planned to use the
plot from Hunter for Rambo V. In 2009, Stallone expressed interest in starring
in a remake of Charles Bronson's 1974 movie Death Wish.[24]
The
Expendables
Currently, Stallone is working on a
film titled The Expendables, for which he will star, write and direct. The movie
was filmed during 2009 and is in post-production. It is set for release in
August 2010. Joining him in the film will be fellow action superstars Jason
Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger as well
as Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Danny Trejo, Randy Couture, Robert Knepper, Eric
Roberts, David Zayas, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. The cameo appearances of
Willis and Schwarzenegger in a scene with fellow action legend Stallone is
eagerly awaited. Due to the overwhelmingly positive reaction to early test
footage and trailers, producer Avi Lerner has reported that there is already
talk of making two more sequels, or at least some sort of a longer franchise,
based on the members of the team.[25]
Rambo V
The movie was officially greenlit
by Nu Image/Millenium Films in September 2009 and initially Stallone said the
movie was to be entitled Rambo V: The Savage Hunt and would be loosely based on
a novel called Hunter (a novel to which Stallone had the rights for ten years),
involving Rambo hunting a "feral beast". In November 2009 Stallone has confirmed
that the story has been switched and that the man/beast hunt story will be saved
for an unrelated film. Rambo V will now be based on Rambo searching for women
who disappeared in a town over the Mexican border.[26] It has been confirmed by
Stallone himself that he has scrapped Rambo V (and "retired" Rambo) in order to
work on The Expendables sequel.
Filmography
Main article: Sylvester Stallone
filmography
Personal life
Stallone has been married three
times. At age 28, on December 28, 1974, he married Sasha Czack. The couple had
two sons, Sage Moonblood (b. May 5, 1976) and Seargeoh (b. 1979). His younger
son was diagnosed with autism at an early age. The couple divorced on February
14, 1985. The same year his divorce finalized, he married model and actress,
Brigitte Nielsen, on December 15, 1985, in Beverly Hills, California. Stallone
and Nielsen's marriage, which only lasted two years, and their subsequent
divorce, were highly publicized by the tabloid press.[27][28][29] In May 1997,
Stallone married Jennifer Flavin, with whom he shares three daughters: Sophia
Rose (b. August 27, 1996), Sistine Rose (b. June 27, 1998), and Scarlet Rose (b.
May 25, 2002).
Stallone has repeatedly used human
growth hormone for its reputation of being anti-aging. In 2007, he was caught in
Australia with 48 vials of the synthetic human growth hormone Jintropin; this
led to concerns that the resulting publicity would increase usage of the
drug.[30]
After Stallone's request that his
acting and life experiences be accepted in exchange for his remaining credits,
he was granted a Bachelors of Fine Arts (BFA) degree by the President of the
University of Miami in 1999.[31]
Stallone grew up Catholic and
stopped going to church as his acting career progressed. He began to rediscover
his childhood faith when his daughter was born ill in 1996, and is now a
churchgoing Catholic.[32]
Stallone supports The Brady Center
to Prevent Gun Violence, and is featured prominently on that organization's
website along with other celebrities.[33]
Stallone is a longtime Republican
supporter who publicly endorsed Senator John McCain in the 2008 presidential
election.
Tobacco
promotion
In 1983 Stallone entered into an
agreement with Associated Film Promotions, Inc. representing their client,
cigarette manufacturer Brown & Williamson Corp., to use or place B&W products in
five of his feature films.[34] In exchange, Stallone was paid a total of
$500,000, disbursed as $250,000 up front and $50,000 "payable at the inception
of production of each participating film." In the initial correspondences
Stallone guaranteed that he would "use Brown and Williamson tobacco products in
no less than five feature films" [35] but later, to be consistent with the
character of Rocky Balboa, it was decided that "other leads will have product
usage" in Rocky IV.[36] In 2002 documentation of the agreement was made publicly
available through the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of
California, San Francisco.[37]
Injuries
Stallone, known for the physicality
of his roles, has been hospitalized for onset injuries while filming movies
numerous[weasel words] times throughout his career. On January 6, 2010,
Sylvester Stallone noted in an interview with FHM magazine that he broke his
neck which required a metal plate to be inserted into his neck while filming The
Expendables in a scene with wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin.[38]
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explained all this on Inside the Actors Studio in 1999.
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"Cinéma. Stallone est de Brest « męme » !", Le Télégramme de Brest, October
6, 2009
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^ Stewart,
Will (April 11, 2009). "Rambo-ski - Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone's
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^ Sylvester
Stallone interview, Playboy, September 1978
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^ 'The
'Italian Stallion' Hoax: Stallone Never Did Hardcore'
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^ Another
World Entertainment Releases Hardcore ‘Italian Stallion’
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Called...Rainbo - IMDB.com
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Award Wins and Nominations". IMDb.com.
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Balboa at Box Office Mojo
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RottenTomatoes
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Stallone: Rambo Returns, video interview with STV
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Stallone And Denise Richards Nominated For Razzies Equivalent, The Golden
Kela Awards
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On Death Wish Remake
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Talk
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divorce stops Tabloid presses, Sarasota Herald Tribune - july 23, 1987
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Seeks a Serious Turn for the Better, The New York Times, August 10, 1997
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Stallone's HGH Secret Start a Trend? ABC News
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^
University of Miami Alumni Page
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Stallone back in church as new movie in theaters
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Center
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Documents Library
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