Sylvester Stallone’s movie work of late (such as it is) has featured more religion, perhaps because of his own return to the Church .
Here , at Ain’t It Cool News, he gives a funny and self-deprecating interview, as well as some insight as to why al-Qaeda will not be an enemy that any of his alter egos takes on anytime soon. (For those of you who have been waiting with baited breath, Rambo IV opens this Friday.)
By way of Jonah Goldberg , by way of John Podhoretz . (I did not like Rocky VI as much as they did. The series had gone through so many iterations that Stallone could have tacked on almost any ending to the last upgrade and it wouldn’t have mattered. Witness the alternate ending supplied with the DVD.)
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