Movies

January, 1977

Sylvester Stallone, with just three movies behind him at the age of 30 (his first was The Lords of Flatbush), must be the first actor in film history to achieve stardom by writing a dynamite role for himself, then playing it with such effortless power and poignancy that you can jot down his name right now as an Oscar nominee in at least two categories. Actor-writer Stallone's hot contender is Rocky, a small miracle of a movie about a not-very-bright palooka who fights for maybe $40 in prize mone...