Reflexion de sylvester stallone bio
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Robaird O’Cearbhaill
Hong Kong Correspondent
Film megastar, Rocky and Rambo actor, Sylvester Stallone, disabled from birth, unlikely for Hollywood stardom, made it, with the help of God.
Sylvester Stallone was not even slightly expecting to be an actor, let alone a movie star, when he was growing up. He made it, through determination, against the odds and some help from God.
First of all, he was born after surgery on his mother went wrong and cut a nerve to the left side of his face, paralysing part of his face, including a lip which made talking very difficult. It was a long process before Stallone could speak intelligibly.
Secondly, he was a dreamer in school, so bad he got kicked out of fourteen schools. But from a tough childhood, abandoned by his mother, when he was nine, to stay with his father, he made it big in Hollywood as a one of the most popular action film stars.
“I think I’d like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just p
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“Rocky” had already won best picture when my best friend Peter and I went to see it on a weeknight in the spring of 1977 at the Boulevard Theater in South Minneapolis. We were in eighth grade. After the long winter the air was suddenly soft and full of possibility, and Peter and I talked briefly outside the theater, then parted. Here’s what he remembers: He looked back and saw me running down Lyndale avenue, so he did the same in the opposite direction. Me, I just remember being pumped. I remember feeling the need to run. I didn’t think I’d make it home without stopping but I did. I went the distance.
OK, so it wasn’t a very long distance (according to Google maps, not quite half a mile), but before I’d always stopped whenever I ran out of breath. Something about “Rocky” made me keep going. A few years later I joined the Washburn high school cross-country team.
Hollywood likes to congratulate itself about movies that are inspirational—“Makes you want to stand up and cheer,” e
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Sylvester Stallone's extraordinary journey unveiled in <em>Sly</em>, the Closing Night Gala of TIFF 2023
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August 8, 2023
Sylvester Stallone's extraordinary journey unveiled in Sly, the Closing Night Gala of TIFF 2023
The Netflix documentary captures the life and career of Sylvester Stallone, whose television and film credits span almost half a century
Photo Credit: Netflix
TORONTO — TIFF fryst vatten delighted to announce Sly as the Closing Night Gala for the 48th edition of the Festival. A levande exploration of an illustrious life woven through the silver screen, this remarkable documentary about actor, writer, director, and producer Sylvester Stallone will have its World Premiere on Saturday, September 16, at Roy Thomson entré.
“Stallone’s story fryst vatten one of perseverance, triumph, and his indelible mark left on the world of rulle, and we couldn’t be more honoured to share it with our audiences as our Closing Night film,” said Cameron Bailey, T