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> Be Sylvester Stallone > Facial nerve damaged during birth causing partial face paralysis & slurred speech > Bullied for his looks & speech at schools couldn't focus on studies expelled multiple times & moved between many foster homes > Moves to New york to pursue acting but producers...

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This painting shows the most heartbreaking reunion in all of literature. To understand it, you have to know who the dog is... His name is Argos, and he belongs to Ulysses, the Greek hero also known as Odysseus. Before Ulysses sailed away to fight in the Trojan War, he had raised Argos from a puppy, a fast and beautiful hunting dog. Then the war called, and Ulysses left. He would not come home for twenty years. When Ulysses finally set foot on his own island again, he came in disguise, dressed as a beggar, so that no one would know him. His house was full of men trying to steal his wife and his kingdom. To survive, he had to remain a stranger in his own home. No one recognized him. Not his loyal servants. Not the people who had known him all his life. But lying in the dirt by the gate, old and forgotten, covered in ticks, too weak to stand, was a dog. Argos had waited twenty years. And the moment he saw him, he knew. He was the only one. Nearly blind, half dead, he lifted his head and pricked up his ears, and he wagged his tail for the master he had never stopped waiting for. Ulysses saw him. And because he was in disguise, surrounded by enemies, he could not run to him, could not kneel down, could not say his name. He could only look at his old friend and, turning his face away so no one would see, let a single tear fall. And then, in Homer's own words, "the dark shadow of death closed down on Argos' eyes, the instant he had seen Odysseus, twenty years away." He had held on to life for one reason only: he was waiting to see him come home. And the moment he did, he could finally let go... It is such a beautiful painting, and the look on that dog's face is so universal, so instantly understood by anyone who has ever loved and waited, that it is enough to bring a grown man to tears.

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Sylvester Stallone on how Creed almost didn't happen: By 2006, Stallone thought he was finished with Rocky. He'd just wrapped Rocky Balboa, a film he had to fight to make in the first place. "It's tough when you say, hey, I got this great idea about a 60 year old boxer. It's really...3 this is the worst idea ever. But anyway, it got done." He continues: "I was very satisfied with the results. And that was 2006. And I thought, okay, this is my crowning accomplishment." Stallone describes waving goodbye to the audience, certain he was done with the character that had defined his career for three decades. Then eight years later, an unknown filmmaker came knocking with a pitch. "He goes, well, I'm an unknown filmmaker, I haven't made any movies yet. But I have this idea about bringing you back and this character, Apollo Creed. See, Apollo, you didn't know this, had an illegitimate son. So he's telling me the story and I go, very interesting." Stallone passed. The filmmaker (Ryan Coogler) went away and made Fruitvale Station with Michael B. Jordan, which swept awards at Cannes. Then he came back and pitched Stallone again. "He doesn't quit, does he? He's really a pesky guy, you know?" What eventually won Stallone over wasn't just Coogler's persistence: "In this movie, Rocky goes into a different kind of fight. He's not in the ring anymore. And he's dealing with life issues, which is much more realistic in some situations. And Michael, who plays Adonis, comes into his life, and they're from absolute opposite sides of the world, and slowly they begin to meld in kind of a family relationship." The result was a film Stallone's own daughters (who had spent years rolling their eyes at Rambo) finally approved of. "They went, finally, you've made a decent film."

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🚨WOW!!! A homeless veteran loved his dog so much he gave him up after he couldn't feed him... giving him to a fire station with a note that read, "please help my baby." The firefighters adopted the dog. Then they found the vet living in a tent... and GAVE HIM A HOME TOO!!! Early one morning, firefighters in Fort Worth walked outside their station and found a pitbull named Jake chained to the flagpole and beside him, was a handwritten note. It was from a 65-year-old disabled veteran named Tom. He'd been living in a homeless camp for 20 months, ever since his landlord wouldn't renew his lease. He was trying to claw his way to a better life, but he couldn't do it and care for his dog at the same time. So he made the hardest decision of his life and in that note, he begged: "I have nothing but my baby Jake. If you have a soul and really care about helping babies, please help my baby." He gave up the only thing he had left in this world... because he loved that dog too much to watch him suffer. The firefighters didn't just take Jake in. They ADOPTED him. He's the station dog now, showered with love, "a boost in morale," they said. But they didn't stop there. The department's homeless outreach team went looking for Tom and they FOUND HIM in his camp. They got him medical care, and then a veterans nonprofit, Operation Texas Strong, stepped up and gave this old soldier an RV and a place to live. A man who had NOTHING gave up his last companion to save him... ...and a community turned around and saved them BOTH. As the man who housed him said: "No veteran should ever be homeless anywhere in the United States." This is the country I know, the one that doesn't leave a solider or his dog behind!!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Matt Van Swol

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In 1977, Sylvester Stallone explained why he wrote Rocky and how he convinced Hollywood to let an unknown actor play the lead. When asked why he wrote the script, Stallone described what he saw as a problem with the films of that era: "I felt at the time that cinema, at least the movies I had been seeing were at an all-time low. It was everything was anti-society, anti-Christ, anti-government, anti-everything. And there was no one to root for." He believed films move in cycles, and he wanted to bring back something that had been lost: "I wanted to get back into the cycle of the films of the 40s and the 50s where people say, 'Hey, gee, I missed the good old films.' Yet Hollywood hasn't taken heed and hasn't made any good old-fashioned type films where morality was at the forefront." Up to that point, Stallone's career had been built on tiny roles, what he called "atmosphere": "I was mostly what is known as atmosphere, always in the background or the guy that was being the drunk that was being stepped over in the gutter and other lame roles." Writing Rocky was his way of giving himself one real shot before disappearing: "I felt that gee, if I was going to go down at least into professional obscurity, I wanted to at least have the opportunity to say to myself, well, you tried. You put your best foot forward and you didn't make it." He knew the character had to match what he could authentically play: "I surely couldn't pass myself off at least as a lawyer in a three-piece suit. I just don't think I have that kind of appeal or whatever it is. So I wanted to take it much more basic. A man from the street. All right. What kind of a man? An underdog. And that being a professional fighter I think has that connotation to it." When the script reached studio executives, they wanted a star. They floated James Caan, Burt Reynolds, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, and Robert Redford. Stallone's pitch for himself came down to persistence and economics: "Usually it's the old syndrome of knocking on the windows, pestering them, pressing my face in the door, honking their horn in the driveway. In other words, making a real pain in the neck out of myself." "I kept saying I work a lot cheaper and a lot harder and for a lot longer." The film was eventually made for $960,000, which Stallone described as roughly the cost of "a good toothpaste commercial."

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