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'It was a total miracle': How rejection led Sylvester Stallone to create film's ultimate underdog Rocky

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In 1976, hit boxing drama Rocky turned its "absolutely broke" and unknown lead actor and screenwriter, Sylvester Stallon

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A young Sylvester Stallone is homeless on the streets of New York in the early 1970s, with only his dog Butkus for compa

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This is the starting point of I Play Rocky, directed by Green Book's Peter Farrelly, which tells the story of how Stallo

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