Sylvester stallone daughters
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Sylvester "Sly" Stallone was born on July 6, 1946 in New York's "Hell's Kitchen." An accident at birth caused by forceps severed a nerve in his cheek, leaving his lower left face paralyzed; this manifested as Stallone's trademark slurred speech and drooping lower lip. After Stallone's parents, Jackie and Frank Stallone, were divorced in 1957, he moved from New York to the suburbs of Philadelphia. He lived there with his mother and her new husband Anthony Filiti, a pizza manufacturer. The teenager attended a private Catholic School in Center City Philadelphia called Notre Dame Academy. He then attended Lincoln High School but after failing to complete tenth grade, he was enrolled in Devereux Manor High School for emotionally troubled youths; Stallone was expelled from fourteen schools by the age of thirteen. At Devereux Manor, the teenager took up football, the discus, and began lifting weights. When it was time to graduate, he was awarded an athletic scholarship to the American College of Switzerland where he spent two years coaching girls athletics. He also starred in a productio
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Sylvester Stallone: How childhood rejection and bullying led the legendary actor to create ‘Rocky’
Recently, instead of retiring, old action heroes have been popping up again on the big screen and streaming platforms. These men (and women) in their 60s and beyond continue to battle like they always have. Sylvester Stallone, 76, is leading the charge. In 2022, the actor returned to his roots as a working-class superhero in Samaritan and starred in the crime series Tulsa King. He also served as a producer of the third installment of Creed, a successful spin-off of Rocky, the unlikely crown jewel of Stallone’s prosperous career and the movie that started it all. Stallone did not just star in the film but wrote the screenplay for it as well. The script for Rocky reached producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff with a single condition: the screenwriter would also play the main character. At the time, Stallone had only appeared in The Lords of Flatbush (1974), an independent film about a Brooklyn street gang. The producers saw it and enthusiastically accepted the stipula
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Sylvester Stallone Biography
“Rocky Balboa”
Sylvester Stallone has come a long way from his beginnings in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. Now an internationally known actor, writer and director, Stallone was born in a charity hospital on July 6, 1946, after a difficult delivery which left his facial muscles partially paralyzed for life.
The boy’s childhood was filled with unpleasant experiences. Among these were the abuses he took from schoolmates because of his first name – Sylvester.
Stallone was eleven when his parents divorced and entered his teens shuttling back and forth between their homes. He finally settled in Philadelphia after his mother remarried and relocated there.
In 1958, walking out of a movie theatre after having watched bodybuilder Steve Reeves in Hercules, the 12-year-old Sly couldn’t believe what he had just seen. He said to himself, “Sly do you want to be a bum or be like Steve Reeves?” He chose the latter and from that early age developed a keen interest in bodybuilding.
Sly’s rebellious nature led