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From the start, Staff Photographer Neil Leifer's idea had a nice ring to it. With the film sequel Rocky III scheduled to open at about the same time that the long-awaited heavyweight fight takes place between Gerry Cooney and defending Champion Larry Holmes, Leifer proposed to exploit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

AFEW WEEKS AGO a theater showed a coming attraction for Rocky III. The screen darkened, the familiar trumpets blared, and then the title appeared, one enormous letter after another. With each successive letter the audience's hissing grew a little louder. By the time Sylvester Stallone appeared, eyeing himself in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

A long time ago, Sylvester Stallone had charm: a down and out actor playing a down and out fighter. He wins the girl, and Rocky wins the Oscar. Horatio Alger at 6'2", 202 pounds. But newspapers soon reported that Stallone left his wife after he graced Newsweek's cover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

Mr. T's fresh and original performance underscores the film's weakness. His character deserves an entire film, for Sylvester Stallone no longer seems to be playing Rocky Balboa, but rather Rocky Balboa and Sylvester Stallone. The beginning of the film chronicles Rocky's rising fame: he appears on telethons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down for the Count | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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