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Sylvester Stallone Biography
At 16, his grades still relatively poor, he began to dream of a life of adventure, the navy seeming a good ticket out. His father, though, as ever unsure of his son's ability to do anything right, nixed the idea and kept the boyhow big the queues were, and how many disappointed punters were turned away, he began a lucrative side-line selling tickets to those at the back of the line. This moneyspinner ended, though, when, at the premiere of M*A*S*H in 1970, he attemptedcinema's owner. The Baronet Theatre did at least provide Stallone with love when he fell for petite blonde ticket girl Sasha Czach, a Pennsylvania girl of Czech origin and an aspiring actress. Soon she'd move in to his furniture-frcorners would be cut. Stallone and director John Avildsen would take small fees but a cut of the profits. A good but cheap supporting cast would be found, including Burgess Meredith and Talia Shire (both recent Oscar nominees, for Day Ofthe movie would be flawed by its absurd action sequences, many of them seeing goalie Stallone flying through the air and suffering bone-crushing impacts with the muddy ground. Goalkeeping films will quite clearly never rival boxing
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