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...Rockey Akpan understands the dilemma. Andre’s father grew up in Nigeria, where education is the key to wealth, status—“everything,” Rockey says...
...good to accept. "The Klan is atypical of the groups that have been involved with the program," explained James Sughrue, a DOT official. No other volunteers, except a cub-scout pack considered too young to be on the roads, had been turned down for the highway-cleanup project. Rockey Chapman, head of the klavern, admitted he wanted "that sign to advertise my group." He asked the state branch of the American Civil Liberties Union to sue for a reversal of the rejection. The A.C.L.U. was expected to do so on the ground that the KKK was the victim of discrimination...
...wife, recommits himself to his goal, pushes himself almost beyond endurance, and then triumphs. Instead of working out in a decrepit Philadelphia gym, Rocky now travels with Creed to work out in a decrepit L.A. gym. Instead of falling to the mat with his dazed opponent (as in Rockey II.) Balboa now assumes a Bjorn Borg-like thanking-the-heavens pose after victory...
...Paul must speak lines that seem as original as the movie's premise. Walking down the back streets of L.A. with Creed and Rocky, he says, "Rats even have more pride than to be caught dead here." When Creed insists that Rocky jump rope to disco music. Paul complains, "Rockey can't train like a colored fighter. He ain't got no rhythm...
...Newsweek cover, doctored only slightly for this sequence. And around Rocky's training ring, promoters have installed life-sized cardboard figures of Balboa, exactly like those promoters of this film have placed in the lobbies of movie theaters. The boundaries between make-believe and reality seem muddled. In Rockey and Rocky II, Stallone presented Balbon as an appealing and charming character; in Rocky III he presents himself as both Stallone the Celebrity and Balbon the Hero. The combination doesn't work...