Grapevine

February, 1977

Sylvester's Rocky Road to StardomSylvester Stallonewrote and plays the title role in Rocky, an upbeat prize-fight movie that's a good bet to make him a major star. "I came up with the idea for Rocky out of desperation. After The Lords of Flat-bush, nobody was offering me anything other than TV thugs, overgrown fuel-injected juvenile delinquents and neophyte rapists. I was about to turn 30 and I knew time was running out. So I decided to work out a formula that would show the better sides of...