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One can practically feel oneself “Getting strong now.” Decades after the iconic underdog movie was released, a new shop outside of the Philadelphia Museum of Art is now officially selling “Rocky” merchandise. According to Billy Penn, a tourism outpost (officially called the Parkway Outpost) was constructed and launched last year near the museum’s s...

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Sylvester Stallone received a hero's welcome in the southern Puglia region of Italy this week after travelling there to embrace his family's Italian heritage. The Hollywood legend and his brother Frank were conferred with honorary citizenship of Gioia del Colle during an open-air ceremony on Wednesday evening. "100 years ago my grandfather left thi...

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Sylvester Stallone, in an emotional trailer for his upcoming Netflix documentary, 'Sly',, the legendary actor known for his iconic role as Rocky Balboa, reflects on his 50-year career and the regrets that haunt him. The teaser begins with Stallone expressing his regrets, stating, "Do I have regrets? Hell yeah, I have regrets.”  He contemplates whet...

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Reared in Hell’s Kitchen, accepting whatever bit part came tumbling his way, Sylvester Stallone learned early on that the path to respect wasn't going to be pretty. The one outlet to channel his feelings was his writing career, which by 1975 was no more fulfilling than his stalled acting endeavors. It was by this time he assembled his thoughts into...

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One of Philadelphia's most famous landmarks is the Rocky statue at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. And recently, the man behind "Rocky" paid as visit to the highly frequented tourist spot. Sylvester Stallone shared on social media a video of him at the Rocky statue. The video is captioned, "Feels like coming home... With the family."

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Rocky Balboa is one the most enduring characters in movie history and that legacy has continued for nearly five decades. But before Sylvester Stallone takes on his iconic role on screen again in "Creed III" later this year, 2022 also marks the 40th anniversary of "Rocky III". Going back all the way in time to his boxing days in the 1976 Academy Awa...

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Sylvester Stallone’s wife Jennifer Flavin has filed for divorce from the 76-year-old “Rocky” star.  Flavin, 54, filed a petition “for dissolution of marriage and other relief” from the Rocky star on Friday at a court in Palm Beach County, Florida. Stallone and Flavin married in 1997, though they had been in a relationship since 1988. The filing, ob...

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Sylvester Stallone has always maintained a deep respect for the importance of the Rocky franchise and what it did for his own life as well as his professional trajectory. However, Stallone has recently taken to social media to express his disappointment about the ownership dispute with Rocky producer Irwin Winkler. Talking about Winkler’s son David...

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There is Frank Sinatra who had a Sicilian grandfather, Madonna with her parents from Abruzzo and Bruce Springsteen whose mother was born in the province of Salerno. The firmament of the stars of the US show has always been studded with Italian-Americans born in the United States but descendants of people who, between 800 and 900, emigrated from the...

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Back in the early 1970s when a story idea for a never-say-die protagonist was percolating in Sylvester Stallone's head, he decided to first visualize this character on canvas. However, he didn't want to use a brush because he felt that this man was forged by the hardships of life. So instead, he carved an image on the canvas using a screwdriver. "I...

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