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Hilly is Hilton Cohen, who fought under the name Hilton David Cohen until his nose started to resemble a mine cave-in. Together they ran in the mornings. "Hilly had all K.O.s in the Golden Gloves one year. I said, 'Listen, Hilly. Don't expect to knock everyone out.' I was trying to give him my experience, but he took it wrong. Thought I was jealous. We had a big argument, and he went out and lost. Hilly doesn't know how to talk to people, but he's my friend...
...bout?to a girl. In a childhood cluttered with embarrassments, this was not an unusual event. "As a kid, I had so many complexes," says Cooney, tugging an ever present brown scalley cap over his eyes, giggling. "Skinny, knock-kneed?6 ft. 1 in., 130 Ibs.?pimples, big nose, big ears . . . What are you getting such a laugh out of?" He is still...
...Angry scrapes under his right eye and across the hump of his nose?from roughhousing in his hotel room, not in the ring?had obviously been hindering him. To protect against aggravating the cut and necessitating another postponement, he had to wear a cumbersome headgear with a blinding nose strip. He sometimes looked worse than slow, full of doubts...
...however, gains its authenticity from the heart. Stallone has built his stories on psychic lines that owe as much to myth as to realism. Says Shire, who is Francis Ford Coppola's sister: "Sylvester tapped the American spirit. I think a person who spent so long with his nose pressed against the window sees things in a most interesting way. Despite his success, he's extremely accessible. That's what's so ironic. Stallone is so famous now he has to stay isolated behind those gates to protect himself...
...himself." Stretched between a Hispanic past and American future, Max imo has the makings of a tragic figure, "his feet slipping each time he tried to turn about." Nicki, foulmouthed, man hungry and bound by family code and prejudice, is almost endearing as she figuratively holds her nose to conduct a secret affair with Maximo...