DailyMail's Sly Profile

On June 8, 2007, the DailyMail.co.uk posted published a really nice piece about Sly. Here are some of the highlights:

• His most memorable characters have been men of sparse vocabulary (Rambo) and talkative fists (Rocky), and yet the Sylvester Stallone who ambles into LA's Peninsula Hotel couldn't be further removed from his cinematic creations.
  
  
• An elegant man of more than a few words, he is well-read (he quotes Shakespeare) and witty, confounding one's expectations while at the same time sending up his persona.
  
  
• "My image is never really going to change," he says ruefully, "and despite my physical appearance, I'm not a bully at all; I'm just the opposite. I like a laugh, I like a good turn of phrase and I don't go around looking for people to punch. I am," he chuckles to himself, "Hugh Grant trapped inside the body of a thug."
  
  
• ...when Rocky Balboa was released earlier this year, it came out to almost universal praise.
  
  
• ...sometimes I look back and think where I'd be now if I'd taken the wrong turning, and I know I'd be at the intersection of Oblivion Street and Extinction Avenue. But it made me fight and it made me what I am."
  
  
• He is, he admits, much calmer now, although turning 60 last July "did freak me out. I was feeling pretty good, and then I looked in the mirror and went: 'Who stole my face and replaced it with a bag of mutton?'
  
  
• "You think when you get to 60 that you'll have life covered, that nothing will scare you any more, but it just doesn't happen that way. It's baffling to realise that you can get to 60 and still not have the answers. I still have my moments of doubt and at times, I'm still a loner, but those moments are more reflective now rather than angry."
  
  
• Sly's next movie "John Rambo"... has already caused a huge buzz on the internet, and well over seven million viewers watched a threeminute clip within days of its release on the net.
  
  
• Judging by the clip, it will not be a film for the faint-hearted, but then neither is the subject matter... "For 60 years, the worst genocide on the planet has been going on," says Stallone. "It's horrific stuff - crushed heads on spikes, children being burned alive, rape being taught by the army - and it's been happening in Burma... This stuff was so brutal, I had to force myself to write it. It's based on fact and I'm hoping to go before the UN with it because I feel it's important for people to realise what's been going on."

To see the full article, click HERE. It's definitely worth a look! - Craig