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Sly Stallone Voice Mail Clarifies Subtleties Of Rambo 5
4:28AM Richard Rushfield | Leave it to the media to get the story wrong. Last week, the web was swarming with talk that the new Rambo movie would be just a big dumb action flick. Hard to imagine anyone would believe such talk. More »
Two and A Half-Man
9:30AM Seth | Pictured, tautly manboobed sexagenarian Sylvester Stallone, toasting Planet Hollywood’s purchase of Buca di Beppo, who plan on extending the movie motif to the Italian chain by rechristening it Apastalypse Now. More »
Sylvester Stallone Now Just Enjoying HGH For Three Meals A Day
6:33AM STV | As loyal Defamer readers will know, there are a lot of reasons to be excited for The Expendables — joined now by the potential to watch Sylvester Stallone literally explode onscreen. More »
Wherein We Muster Cautious Optimism For Sylvester Stallone’s Next Film
2:49AM STV | Mickey Rourke has signed on for Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, joining Jason Statham, Jet Li, Forest Whitaker and (ahem) Dolph Lundgren in a testosterrific tough-guy ensemble. Which leads us to ask: Can this possibly suck? More »
Gated Community, Nannies’ Shortcuts in Turmoil as A-Listers Go to War
3:19AM STV | To hell with the SAG strike: The real feud set to engulf Hollywood’s acting community is simmering in the tony enclave of Beverly Park. There, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington and Sylvester Stallone are just a few of the heavy-hitters embroiled in what has come to be known simply as GateGate. More »
Five Clips Exempting Sly Stallone From His Forthcoming Lifetime Achievement Award
7:40AM STV | The news that a respected Swiss film festival plans to honour Sylvester Stallone with a lifetime achievement award was the cause of some distress this week at Defamer HQ. We weren’t necessarily alone, but we weren’t that black-and-white with it, either; surely he’s a singular figure of Hollywood’s last 50 years, but even sizable accomplishments like Rocky, First Blood, CopLand and the outstandingly violent fever dream that was Rambo 4 don’t cast shadows long enough to block the sprawling, weedy malevolence of most of his work. His films have grossed a total of $1.7 billion, but how hastily should anyone jump to reward their artistic intentions and merits? No sooner did we ask ourselves that question than the answer roared forth from the stolid depths of his oeuvre. After the jump, find five primary clips that affirm Stallone’s immortality — for all the wrong reasons. More »
8:06AM Mark | As a director, Rambo auteur Sylvester Stallone is as ruthless as he is brilliant; dare to defy him, and you can be sure that when you show up to work the next day, you’ll suddenly be listed on the call sheet as “Unknown Hostage Devoured By Man-Eating Pigs #3″ or “Mercenary Landmine Victim”: “One extra whose role as a mercenary consisted of a silent march through the jungle convinced the sound department to outfit him with a mic. ‘He delivered this rambling monologue about his life back in Colorado, when he had no lines at all’ says Logan. When Sly saw the rushes, he was furious. ‘Boom! That guy got blown up instead.’” [Complex] More »
Record 97.5 Million Viewers Tune In To Super Bowl Goliath-Slaying
6:40AM Mark | According to Nielsen’s preliminary overnight ratings, a record number of Super Bowl viewers tuned in to watch the Giants shock the world™ by upsetting the heavily favored, once-unbeatable-seeming Patriots, with 97.5 million people tuning in (and 105.9 million at its peak) for the game. The telecast may also finish as the second-most-watched event of all time, behind MASH’s 1983 finale. [THR] · Rewarding him for his ability to profitably resurrect the Rambo franchise, Nu Image/Millenium Films signs new international political icon Sylvester Stallone to write and direct two more action flicks; blogging convention dictates that we must identify these next projects as long-awaited sequels to films from his back catalog, like Cobras and Over the Top 2: Back Over the Top. [THR] More »
After ‘Rambo’ Banning In Myanmar, Stallone Offers To Take On Military Government In Person
5:35AM Mark | Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo, the writer/director’s powerful documentary on a mysterious, monosyllabic American boatman’s struggle to unseat the bloodthirsty military regime subjugating Myanmar, has struck such a chord within the country that its ruling junta is trying to stop the cinematic call-to-action from reaching Yangon’s black-market DVD stalls, where it could incite widespread rebellion by those inspired by Stallone’s rousing catchphrases: More »
