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Best actress went to Faye Dunaway as the bitchy-pushy programming V.P. in Network; her loony anchorman co-star Peter Finch, who died last January, was named Best Actor. Rocky, Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone's uplift tale about the little-known heavyweight who could, won Best Picture.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1977 | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Screenplay by SYLVESTER STALLONE

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Contender | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

In certain ways this is an unbeat able role. Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone (TIME, Nov. 15), who is as smart as Rocky is not, held out to play the part he created. He does it affectingly. Who can fail to yield to him emotionally as he talks to the animals and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Contender | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

The invention of the icebox in 1803, the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, and the development of the vacuum-sealed Mason jar in 1858 widened the variety and availability of foodstuffs. Still, little was known about nutrition. Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spoiling the Broth | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

The plot is coming true for Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone, 30, a brash, genial bit-actor who wrote the script Rocky in three days, and held out against the producers, James Caan and Burt Reynolds, to star in it himself. Jaded preview audiences are giving it ovations, and much of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Italian Stallion | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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