Stallone's Body Guard Roughs
Up Journalist
Fri Aug 29, 2:18 PM ET
VENICE, Italy - A security
guard protecting Sylvester Stallone roughed up an Italian
journalist covering the Venice Film Festival Friday after
the reporter tried to interview the muscular star.
A representative of Stallone,
who was in Venice to promote "Spy Kids 3-D: Game
Over," said the bodyguard had been unnecessarily rough
and added that the actor had apologized to journalist Tonino
Pinto of RAI state television.
Pinto, meanwhile,
complained angrily about the matter.
"While I was trying to have
a few words with the actor along with my colleagues, there was
a bodyguard who was pushing at me with a finger in my ribs.
At the end of the interview, I asked for an explanation from
the man and he responded by beating me up," the ANSA news
agency reported Pinto as saying.
The journalist went to the hospital,
where he was treated for bruises.
- Craig Zablo
