At the time when Sly was starting out in acting and screenwriting, he wasn’t all that financial stable believe it or not. Back when he was young, he was struggling and in financial trouble. Almost broke and there was a point where he was broke for good for a little while.

Above is an instagram post where Sly showing us where he wrote the first Rocky script… in a shitty small apartment in Hollywood, Florida.

Florida is where it all started for Sly. He didn’t become rich and famous over night, he really worked hard for it. Most Hollywood actors, fame and fortune was just handed to ’em like spoiled brats but not Sly. Sly had to work for that so with that being said, fame and fortune, well deserved for Sly.

Sly went from living in shitty apartments to living in huge mansions… it took him a long time to get there for sure.

In all honesty, though, us Stallone fans gave him that. We paid our money to see his movies in the theaters over the years, buying his movies on VHS/DVD/BluRay and all that stuff. You can see Sly in that post thanking us for putting him there so he knows we helped him. Sly grew a large fan following over the years and he just keeps getting even more popular today.

There was a point where Sly was in a career slump when he was making all those box office bombs but he got himself out of that too.

Sly is King. I’ve always been a fan and still am.

Kev

Usually actors and actresses have no time for other people due to their busy and hectic acting career. That’s not the case with Sylvester Stallone, though. This man is not afraid to be friends with other movie stars as he spends a lot of time with some of them and keeps in touch with many of them. Sly is close friends with movie stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham, Frank Grillo, Mel Gibson, Carl Weathers, Bruce Willis and the list goes on and on. Even Jackie Chan is Sly’s buddy even though they have never starred in a movie together.

While Sly is friends with many actors, he’s obviously the most closest to Arnold. Why didn’t Sly and Arnie star in a movie together in the 80’s and 90’s when they could have? Well they didn’t want to be competitive and “ego” just got in the way for the most part. They used to hate other and used to be “enemies” back then. I guess they waited for the right time to bury the hatchet and now they’re like best brothers which is crazy.

Just imagine if Sly and Arnold did make an action movie together in the 80’s and 90’s? It would have been huge for sure and would have broken box office records. It’s too bad it didn’t happen. Well they are finally starting to star in movies after all these years with them two teaming for The Expendables series and the first “Escape Plan” movie. They’ll probably do another movie together in the future, though and will probably end up being “Expendables 4”.

Arnold and Sly continue to hang out. They just reunited after all the social distancing stuff with Covid and both guys are probably fully vaccinated so they’re starting to hang out again.

Kev

Looks like the news and rumors of Sly moving to Florida permanently is for real ’cause here’s Sly at the DMV in Florida getting his driver’s license there.

Sly has always been a driver himself ’cause he always took himself places where he needed to go. He didn’t need a limo driver even when he lived in California for so long.

Looks like he doesn’t like California anymore and made the move to Florida which is a good move really ’cause California is horrible. Plus Florida has a better governor, Ron Desantis so I’m sure Sly will like living in FL more.

Sly no longer lives in his longtime Beverly Hills mansion as it’s up for sale:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-global-properties/2021/03/02/new-video-goes-inside-sylvester-stallones-110-million-beverly-hills-mansion/?sh=106d8f384b7b

Kev

Most movie stars in Hollywood had fame and fortune landed on their laps… ya know, just handed to them… but not Sly. He really worked hard to get where he is today.

When Sly was young in his 20’s, he was almost broke. He was living homeless for a little while and lived in shittiest apartments in his younger years… so yeah, you can betcha that a lot of the first “Rocky” was inspired from Sly’s real life pretty much when he wrote that script.

Sly worked real hard to become a huge name and become a wealthy millionaire. He certainly did not get there overnight.

Some people want to make fun of the man’s acting over the years but the man actually studied “drama” through college in Miami for a few years. Before his fame in the movies, Sly started off as a theatrical stage actor.

Yeah, Sly got his start in film in a softcore porn “The Party at Kitty and Studs” which he always admits to regretting doing but he just did it for the money and that’s it really.

Most movie stars are nothing but leftist whack jobs who always brings politics into everything but not Sly… Sylvester has always been an apolitical guy and always focused on his movie career over the years. That’s another reason he should get more respect. Most movie stars sucks and are awful people but Sly is one of the few good ones left.

He didn’t become Rocky and Rambo overnight… it took him a long road to get there. When he started getting films, he mostly did cameos and was mostly extras but he gotta start somewhere right?

His first leading role wasn’t Rocky believe it or not. It was an action thriller called, “No Place to Hide” released in 1973. A film of his I’ve never seen before but want to.

I still am a huge Sly Stallone fan even to this day… I will always be 100% loyal to this guy! I still hope to get my chance to meet the man in person if lucky enough ’cause that would be amazing.

Kev

I will always be a huge loyal fan of Sly Stallone’s film career! I just respect the man so much. Yeah, he has made some bad films in the past admittedly but Sly himself is not perfect… even Sly himself publicly admitted that he doesn’t like some of his own movies but he is a talented actor, screenwriter and director.

I like a lot of his movies but my absolutely favorites will always be the first Rocky, the first two Rambo films, Cop Land, Cliffhanger, Cobra, Get Carter and “Creed II”. They were his best work, in my opinion.

I really dig Sly’s new white bearded and white hair look and it’s looking like he’s keeping it. I guess he got tired of dying his hair black all the time… unless he’s only keeping this look for a movie role, though???

Sly is still stuck at home like the rest of us ’cause Hollywood is out of work. Well, Sly got to spend his birthday at home at least.

Happy birthday, Sly!!!!!

Kev