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...this corner, with the Mohican-style hairdo and the beard, is the challenger, Clubber Lang, played by Lawrence ("Mr. T.") Tero. In the other corner, with the ruddy cheeks and the winning smile, is the champ. Rocky Balboa, played by Sylvester Stallone. The two slug it out in Stallone's new film, Rocky III, due in June 1982. During the fight scenes the pair sparred actively, pulling their punches when they could, but occasionally connecting hard. Mr. T. packs quite a wallop-he is a former bodyguard for such pugilists as Muhammad Ali and Leon Spinks. Still, Stallone...
IMAGINE TELEVISION'S Mr. Rogers playing Rocky Balboa and you should get an idea of what Paul Newman is like as J.J. Murphy. Miscasting like this should be savored in all its hilarity. When Newman looks into the camera and says "I've been a cop for seventeen years and I've got every minute of this job written on my face" or adds "I could walk into Grand Central Station and everybody would know I'm a cop," he's almost too funny to bear. Yes, Newman has taken a lot of critical abuse in his twenty-five years...
...make itself as much a folk tale as a habitat. But just as it has always insisted on its eternal newness and promise, it has also represented the dead end of the New World, the end of exploration, recalling all the mistakes of every past civilization. One reason that Balboa (Keats mistakenly wrote Cortes) might have stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" is that he realized there was no place else on earth to travel to. Or as a Walt Whitman character said in "Facing West from California's Shores": "Where is what I started for so long...
...character like Billy McCoy, who makes Rocky Balboa sound as cynical as Céline, has not graced movies since John Wayne's "Singin' Sandy" westerns of the mid-'30s. His nemesis turned girlfriend recalls the snooty madcaps of the old screwball comedies. Sondra Locke is no Carole Lombard; indeed, Bronco Billy would have benefited from the presence of a more elegant, less abrasive actress like Jill Clayburgh or Blythe Banner. But Locke strong-arms her way into your affections at about the time Billy wins her over, and by the end of Bronco Billy...
...large, the transition went smoothly. At the stroke of midnight on the appointed day, a team of Panamanian telecommunications workers, led by Torrijo's brother Mardin, took over the Balboa post office from American officials...