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Thirty Years Later, Rocky Balboa Still Packs a Punch | Today's News: Our Take | 12/12/2006
Can we all just close our eyes and pretend that Rocky V never happened? Because if ever there were a franchise-finisher to be remembered for staging the Italian Stallion's final bout, Rocky Balboa, due out Dec. 20, portends to be it. Having grown up with this film series, I cheered and I cried at a press screening last week, as the famed palooka-turned-pugilist entered the ring just one more, most memorable time.The Oscar-winning Rocky and its first follow-up were seminal films, even coining the term "a Rocky story" to sum up the tale of an underdog (in this case, a loan shark's sad-sack collection man) who overcomes the odds to achieve greatness — a bid for both true love and the title. Rocky III, with the arrival of Mr. T's Clubber Lang, found Rocko facing his fiercest opponent yet — as Burgess Meredith's Mickey reveals (in his raspy growl) that previous comers "wuz hand-picked!" — and then dealing with the loss of the trainer he for so long held dear. Rocky IV, an ... read more

Title	Year	Type
Gran Torino (Actor - Karen Kowalski)	2008	Movie
Rocky Balboa (Actor - Marie)	2006	Movie
Duplex (Actor - Receptionist)	2003	Movie
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (Actor - Fiona Byrne)	2003	TV Show Series
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Savant (Actor - Tina Patel)		Episode

Gran Torino (2008): "Taking It...
Mitch (Brian Haley) and his wife Karen...
Network: Yahoo! Movies
Posted: 12/11/2008 Length: 2m 6s
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