The current double issue( April
30, 2004 # 762/763 ) Entertainment Weekly ' Summer Movie issue
contains a couple of Sly items. Jazz sent in two pics and some
excerpts...
THE
BOYS WHO BURNED A BILLION DOLLARS, How two wild and crazy guys
seduced stars for their fledgling studio, spent oodles of cash,
and blew up a lot of stuff. Including their own white-hot careers.
By DANIEL FIERMAN
" They promised him the film would shoot for three months,
and it ended up [ delaying ] Rocky 3. He was really pissed off.
One day, right in the middle of this small town in Canada, Sylvester
started ranting and raving and swearing a blue streak, "
says Kotcheff.
Vajna was the one who
saw something in the First Blood script, and they both agreed
Sylvester Stallone, an actor fresh off Nighthawks, should star.
In
1985, the First Blood sequel turned into a money-spouting geyser:
Rambo grossed $ 150 million--and yielded Rambo bedsheets, Rambo
action figures, even, frighteningly, a Rambo Saturday morning
cartoon.
" Sly was at the pool [ of the Hotel du Cap ] wit all these
topless sunbathers surrounding him, and I pitch him the story
and he says, ' I love it! I'm on board.' And Mario said, ' Good
! Because I already ordered fireworks with the name of the movie
on it.' " Later that evening, the title of deSouza's
film, Isobar, lit up the night sky.
THE
BOYS WHO BURNED A BILLION DOLLARS, How two wild and crazy guys
seduced stars for their fledgling studio, spent oodles of cash,
and blew up a lot of stuff. Including their own white-hot careers.
By DANIEL FIERMAN 
In
1985, the First Blood sequel turned into a money-spouting geyser:
Rambo grossed $ 150 million--and yielded Rambo bedsheets, Rambo
action figures, even, frighteningly, a Rambo Saturday morning
cartoon.