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Even as the shells of warring factions continue to burst over the city, Sylvester Stallone's Rambo is breaking all box-office records in Beirut. During the ten years of almost nonstop civil war, at least 50,000 residents of Lebanon's capital have died. More than 100,000 have...
Rambo is, of course, Sylvester Stallone's latest cinematic creation, a brooding Viet Nam veteran who unleashes destruction in the summer's first blockbuster hit, Rambo: First Blood Part II. In this sequel to Stallone's 1982 film First Blood, a crack veteran of the Green Beret Special Forces is...
Like its hero, who implausibly shoots his way through the Vietnamese countryside, Rambo: First Blood Part II has exploded through U.S. movie theaters to become a hit of totally unexpected proportions, earning a whopping $57 million during its first two weeks. (Only Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and...
Sylvester Stallone has a shrewd mythmaker's instinct for that kind of metamorphosis. Stallone's formative influence was the Hercules movies of Steve Reeves, whose physique he energetically and wistfully labored to replicate. Stallone eventually took his splendidly muscled creation over into fiction. He became Rocky, the Philadelphia loser who...
The man asking that pregnant, poignant question is none other than John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), the Viet Nam vet who was last seen in First Blood wiping out a small Western town whose citizens did not agree with his views on the historical necessity and moral value of the U.S...