A softened, popularized version of the Mean Streets topic: the hell-raising of Italian Catholic buddies in the New York boroughs. You can also see traces of Rocky in the awkward, inarticulate boy-girl romance, and in the Sylvester Stallone poster that hangs on the hero's wall alongside the best-selling posters of …
Lazy daydream by, or for, a subscriber to Soldier of Fortune magazine: an ex-CIA demolitions mercenary (personal code: no innocent bystanders hurt) hired by a fatal lady nursing a twenty-year vendetta against the Miami mob. Brief interruption by, or for, a reader of Playboy: a literally steamy wrestling match in …
Sylvester Stallone Career Revival Plan "D": As long as he's become a laughingstock, he may as well make comedies (wear a diaper, get interrupted in the shower by his mother, act embarrassed about his baby pictures). He's game, not especially deft. Frank Tidy's photography, though adding no levity, is weirdly …
Hand-me-down horse story about a Texas cow pony named "Sylvester Stallone" at an Olympic equestrian event in Lexington, Ky. There is always, of course, a new generation of horse lovers who didn't see National Velvet or else can't see around its datedness. Even the present generation, however, ought to have …
Buddy stuff. Yuppie cop and prole cop, Armani suits vs. blue jeans and T-shirt, etc. Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell each have a sense of style in the heat of the action, but the nattering wisecracks ("Where the hell did you learn to drive?" "Stevie Wonder!") keep dousing them with …