Do have a lovely day!
1.
HE WAS BORN WITH THAT SNEER ON HIS FACE:
Sly was born on the 6th
of July 1946 with his trade mark sneer; it was caused by an inexperienced
medical intern who helped deliver him. Rough use of medical forceps cut a
facial never in baby Sylvester causing the permanent droopy look and sneer.
Didn’t seem to affect his career though!
2.
HE WAS BULLIED AT SCHOOL:
Young Sylvester was a short skinny
kid who got bullied frequently at school and as a result got obsessed with getting
big and strong like Steve reeves(pictured below)
So he started working out but he had no money for gym and weights were expensive, he wound up sneaking into auto yards at night and stealing heavy engine parts which he used to fabricate homemade barbells.
3.
HE WAS EXPELLED FROM SCHOOLS:
As a young boy
Stallone was a problem student and got expelled from no fewer than 14 different
schools! His offences included fighting, lighting fires, firing arrows from
windows and stealing a nun’s crucifix. It got so bad that the only school that
would accept him was found in Switzerland.
4.
ODD JOBS:
While trying to launch an acting career he had to keep body
and soul together with a variety of odd jobs which included being a
hairdresser, cleaning out the cages of lions at the central park zoo and being
an usher at a cinema. He got fired from this last job for trying to sell
tickets to the owner at inflated prices!
5.
HOW HE GOT ROCKY ROLE:
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| Rocky Vs Mr. T |
Having been inspired by the Mohammed Ali/Chuck wepner fight,
Stallone wrote the script for rocky in 3 days while his then wife Sasha typed
it up. The studios offered him $350,000 for the script but wanted another actor
as rocky. Stallone with a pregnant wife and less than $100 in the bank held out
for the role and eventually got his first starring role for much less money. It
was the beginning of wonderful things, and he even got a part for his dog!
6.
ESCAPE TO VICTORY:
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| Stallone the Goalie! |
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| Stallone and Pele |
7.
HE WAS FAT:
For his role in the movie “Copland” Stallone gained a huge
amount of weight. He put on 40 pounds of fat to play the role of a local
Sheriff and won great critical acclaim for this. However he soon developed high
blood pressure and back pain. His favorite food for weight gain was pancakes,
lots of them.
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| With Robert De Niro in Copland |
8.
FIRST BLOOD AND MORE:
His character Rambo has the distinction of being in two of
the bloodiest movies of all time. According to the Guinness book of world
records Rambo 3 was the most violent movie of all time with 221 acts of
violence and 108 deaths. Amazingly Stallone topped this with 2008’s “Rambo”
which had an amazing 236 deaths, approximately two and a half screen deaths
every minute!
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| Rambo! Can you spot the dangling body part? |
9.
ROCKY 4 INJURY:
Stallone doesn’t do anything by half measures, and he got in
trouble on the set of rocky 4 due to this. While filming a fight scene Stallone
dared Dolph Lundgren to punch him as hard as he could in the chest, Dolph dully
obliged him. Stallone wound up in intensive care with a swollen heart. Other
injuries have included; body shock (Rocky 3), broken ribs (Rambo and escape to
victory), and a broken neck (The expendables).
10.
BOXING HALL OF FAME:
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| Stallone,Tyson,Chaves at Boxing Hall of Fame Induction |
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