Sylvester Stallone paid tribute today to Carl Weathers, who played Apollo Creed in the first four Rocky films and died Thursday at 76.
In an emotional Instagram video post (watch it below), the three-time Oscar nominee recalled his longtime friend in a sometimes-quivering voice: “”My life was forever changed for the better the day I met Carl Weathers. … He was magic, and I was fortunate to be part of his life. … Rest in power and keep punching.”
Standing in front of an abstract painting from their Rocky days in the ring, Stallone says in the video: “Hello, everyone. Today is an incredibly sad day for me. … Carl Weathers was such an integral part of my life which he says everything about it. I give him incredible credit …. because when he walked into that room, and I saw him for the first time, I saw greatness, but I didn’t realize how great.
In an emotional Instagram video post (watch it below), the three-time Oscar nominee recalled his longtime friend in a sometimes-quivering voice: “”My life was forever changed for the better the day I met Carl Weathers. … He was magic, and I was fortunate to be part of his life. … Rest in power and keep punching.”
Standing in front of an abstract painting from their Rocky days in the ring, Stallone says in the video: “Hello, everyone. Today is an incredibly sad day for me. … Carl Weathers was such an integral part of my life which he says everything about it. I give him incredible credit …. because when he walked into that room, and I saw him for the first time, I saw greatness, but I didn’t realize how great.
- 2/3/2024
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Fans of Sylvester Stallone may know that the actor also has an affinity for art outside of movies. Stallone, in addition to his creative endeavors as an actor, writer and director, also does paintings in his personal time. If you follow Stallone on his official social media accounts, from time to time, you may get a glimpse of pieces he’s been working on. Or maybe just past works that he was keen to share. Stallone also loves to share the works of others that have captured the spirit of his films.
On his official Instagram account, Stallone shared a striking painting that captures one of the many iconic scenes of the first Rocky. In the piece titled The Chosen One, we’re shown a still from the very first scene of the movie where we’re introduced to Rocky Balboa scrapping for change in a bottom-of-the-barrel boxing fight at...
On his official Instagram account, Stallone shared a striking painting that captures one of the many iconic scenes of the first Rocky. In the piece titled The Chosen One, we’re shown a still from the very first scene of the movie where we’re introduced to Rocky Balboa scrapping for change in a bottom-of-the-barrel boxing fight at...
- 1/24/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
The persistence of the "Rocky" series is one of the strangest phenomena in mainstream Hollywood. To date, there have been eight films in the Rocky cinematic universe with a ninth set to be released on March 3, 2023, and they are mostly -- a few entries notwithstanding -- well-reviewed and well-received. On one level, this is understandable; John G. Avildsen's 1976 "Rocky" -- which Stallone wrote -- can stand as the template for all sports movies that followed, reestablishing the genre and laying out a formula that is imitated to this day.
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a well-meaning, down-on-his-luck meathead who hasn't been able to catch a break. His life is drab, cramped, a little bit sad. When he and the shy Adrian (Talia Shire) begin to date, they bond deeply over mutual loneliness. Rocky does get his break when the blustering boxing celebrity Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) challenges him to a match.
Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a well-meaning, down-on-his-luck meathead who hasn't been able to catch a break. His life is drab, cramped, a little bit sad. When he and the shy Adrian (Talia Shire) begin to date, they bond deeply over mutual loneliness. Rocky does get his break when the blustering boxing celebrity Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) challenges him to a match.
- 9/19/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Here's to the Golden Globes – what other award show would bring Meryl Streep onstage for a lifetime-achievement tribute and then have the orchestra salute her with Abba's "Mamma Mia"? A perfect moment to sum up everything the Globes stand for: finding the cheese lining in any artistic cloud. That's the saving grace of this dippiest and drunkest of award shows. Nobody cares who wins; all that matters at this TV party is locking the stars up together in the Beverly Hills Hilton, getting them ripped on free booze and...
- 1/9/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Star-powered photo shoots currently dominate our covers, but over the years, TV Guide Magazine has also put illustrations, caricatures, collages and paintings front and center. A few of these canvases came from some of the most important artists of their times, including Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, Peter Max and LeRoy Neiman. Our archive of 60 years' worth of covers comprises a veritable museum of pop art. And the stories behind these masterpieces are often as fascinating as the images themselves...
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- 4/23/2013
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- TVGuide - Breaking News
I never thought about the fabulously successful illustrator LeRoy Neiman, who died yesterday at 91. When I did think about Neiman, it was as a sort of Carnaby Street hippie-dandy who wore colorful clothes and made a lot of money. (His website says he's sold "approximately 150,000 of his silkscreen prints to individuals.") He had a wide Dalí-esque mustache, smoked long cigars, and hung around the Playboy Mansion with Hef. He drew and painted boxers, tennis players, race-car drivers, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli, Sylvester Stallone, Kentucky Derby horses, Bobby Fischer, and Boris Spassky playing chess on live TV, and Playboy Bunnies. I mainly saw Neiman's work incidentally, in the pages of my father's Playboys, furtively fumbling through for pictures of big American breasts. (Which might mean that LeRoy Neiman is a kind of unnamed fetish to millions of boys who grew up speeding past his illustrations to get to...
- 6/21/2012
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
New York (AP) — Painter and sketch artist LeRoy Neiman, best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91.
Neiman was the official painter of five Olympiads and was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years. His longtime publicist, Gail Parenteau, confirmed his death at a Manhattan hospital on Wednesday but didn't disclose the cause.
Neiman was a media-savvy artist who knew how to enthrall audiences with his instant renditions of what he observed. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a live television audience. He also produced live drawings of the Olympics for TV and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.
Neiman's "reportage of history and the passing scene ... revived an almost lost and time-honored art form," according to...
Neiman was the official painter of five Olympiads and was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years. His longtime publicist, Gail Parenteau, confirmed his death at a Manhattan hospital on Wednesday but didn't disclose the cause.
Neiman was a media-savvy artist who knew how to enthrall audiences with his instant renditions of what he observed. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a live television audience. He also produced live drawings of the Olympics for TV and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.
Neiman's "reportage of history and the passing scene ... revived an almost lost and time-honored art form," according to...
- 6/21/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Artist LeRoy Neiman, official painter of five Olympiads and a contributing artist at Playboy for several years, died Wednesday (June 20) at the age of 91, his publicist tells the AP. The cause was not immediately available.
Neiman was known for his instant renditions of sporting events, including a 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer and live drawings of the Olympics, and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.
Neiman said in 1972, "For an artist, watching a [Joe] Namath throw a football or a Willie Mays hit a baseball is an experience far more overpowering than painting a beautiful woman or leading political figure."
One subject Neiman painted over and over again was boxer Muhammad Ali. Neiman recorded over 15 years of the prizefighter's professional life and those paintings hang in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky. Below is one of his Ali paintings,...
Neiman was known for his instant renditions of sporting events, including a 1972 chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer and live drawings of the Olympics, and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.
Neiman said in 1972, "For an artist, watching a [Joe] Namath throw a football or a Willie Mays hit a baseball is an experience far more overpowering than painting a beautiful woman or leading political figure."
One subject Neiman painted over and over again was boxer Muhammad Ali. Neiman recorded over 15 years of the prizefighter's professional life and those paintings hang in the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky. Below is one of his Ali paintings,...
- 6/21/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Painter and sketch artist LeRoy Neiman, best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday. He was 91. Neiman was the official painter of five Olympiads and was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years. His longtime publicist, Gail Parenteau, confirmed his death at a Manhattan hospital on Wednesday but didn't disclose the cause. Photos: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2012 Neiman was a media-savvy artist who knew how to enthrall audiences with his instant renditions of what he observed. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament
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- 6/21/2012
- by THR Staff, Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gregory DePalma, a colorful, self-assured wiseguy whose loyal mob soldier status will be forever tarnished because he was suckered into proposing a Cuban-born FBI undercover agent for induction into the Gambino family, has died a lonely death behind bars. He was 77. DePalma became a "made man" during the reign of the late Paul Castellano. His biggest claim to Mafia fame was his presence in the famous arm-around snapshot with Big Paul, Carlo Gambino and Frank Sinatra backstage at the old Westchester Premiere Theatre. Over the years, DePalma had many superstar celebrity friends. In addition to Sinatra, they included Dean Martin, Leroy Neiman, Liza Minnelli and the great New York Giants' center fielder, Willie Mays -- with whom DePalma played golf for many years at the Westchester Country Club. DePalma predicted at his sentencing in 2006 that he would not survive the...
- 11/30/2009
- by Jerry Capeci
- Huffington Post
Legendary artist LeRoy Neiman doesn't normally go anywhere without his sketchpad. But he did the other night at the Friars Club, where he was roasted at an event staged by his good pals Broadway producers Irv Welzer and Herb Blodgett, and emceed by Mark Simone. The roasters included Freddie Roman, Stewie Stone, Dick Capri, Mickey (of the old "Sgt. Bilko" show) Freeman, and Larry ("F- Troop") Storch. Leading the applause was ex-heavyweight champ Larry Holmes, former Mayor David Dinkins...
- 5/21/2009
- NYPost.com
The Paley Center for Media's PaleyDocFest, which runs from Oct. 16-27 in New York, will kick off with Kristi Jacobson's "Toots," a documentary about the celebrated saloon keeper Toots Shor. Jacabson, Gay Talese, Periane Conerly and LeRoy Neiman will take part in a Q&A accompanying the film.
The fest will include the New York premieres of "Johnny Cash's America," "Running the Sahara" and "American Masters: Jerome Robbins - Something to Dance About."
It will also include a special preview of "Sweet Dreams."
"The Paley Center for Media has a deep commitment to documentaries. We believe in the power of this art form to inspire and to tell stories in a way that captures the imagination and expands our horizons," Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, said. "In our vast collection of documentaries, we offer some of the most well-known and celebrated documentaries...
The fest will include the New York premieres of "Johnny Cash's America," "Running the Sahara" and "American Masters: Jerome Robbins - Something to Dance About."
It will also include a special preview of "Sweet Dreams."
"The Paley Center for Media has a deep commitment to documentaries. We believe in the power of this art form to inspire and to tell stories in a way that captures the imagination and expands our horizons," Pat Mitchell, president and CEO of The Paley Center for Media, said. "In our vast collection of documentaries, we offer some of the most well-known and celebrated documentaries...
- 10/2/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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