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John William Tuohy lives in Washington DC

Sylvester Stallone is a writer

 


Sylvester Stallone is a writer who stood his ground for his work. Before Rocky was released, Stallone was so broke he made a soft porn film to pay the rent and was even forced to sell his beloved dog Butkus outside of a liquor store for $25.00 because he couldn't afford to feed him. He wrote the screen play for Rocky at age (at the age of 30) in three and half days. The studios offered him $360,000 for the screenplay (About the equivalent of $1.7 million today) with the understanding that James Caan would play the lead. But Stallone wanted the lead because he created the character and understood him, so he said no to the money. After a lot of negotiations, he took $30,000 and got what he wanted. The firs thing he did was to buy back his dog. Rocky has earned almost a half billion today.