A Hero's Story!
Rovin, author of Joan Collins, Julio and other biographies, sympathetically traces Stallone's life and career, including his troubled childhood, the Oscar-winning picture Rocky, and his various setbacks and comebacks since. Stallone's early struggles make fascinating reading: afflicted with rickets and partial facial paralysis, he grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen and in Philadelphia, began weightlifting...
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