But I just needed to relax, you know? Jumped into a nice hot bath (which I rarely do). Yes, guys take baths, even though most are too wussy to admit it. Of course, it's a little messy in my tub. I play volleyball on the beach all weekend long, every weekend, throughout the summer. I've been so busy with book stuff, I still haven't had time to clean the sand left from those summer days. There's about 8 lbs. of sand in my tub. So it was a real manly bath.
I left the TV on and heard the commercial for Rocky Balboa. Ah, yes, another Rocky film. The best thing about Rocky isn't Rocky; it's the story behind it. Surprisingly, a lot of people don't know it. Here it is.
Sylvester Stallone wanted to act. He wanted to be known, to get the roles he wanted. He had a few no-one's-going-to-remember-this-character roles which, yeah, pretty much no one remembers. To make ends meet he stared in soft porns, where he earned a nickname--the Italian Stallion.
Stallone thought hard about how he could make it. On March 24, 1975, Stallone saw the Ali-Chuck Wepner fight which inspired the foundation idea of Rocky. That weekend Stallone went home and pulled his blinds, so there wouldn't even be the distraction of daylight. In three days he had written the script for Rocky.
Stallone tried to sell the script with the intention of playing the lead role. He was offered several hundred thousand dollars for the script by different studios but he didn't accept, holding out to play the lead himself. Word is, studios wanted Burt Reynolds for the role. They leaned on Stallone. No dice.
Finally, a studio reluctantly acquiesced. In 1976 Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture. Rocky used Stallone's nickname "the Italian Stallion" in the film, a reminder of where he started. A great inspirational story for us all.
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1 comment:
Ya know, I've never have been much of a Rocky fan, but that bakbone to the beginings is just so great. I never knew the Stallone wrote the script and it's great that he held out to play the role. Amazing!
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