The Rocky Road to Success
The Rocky Road to Success
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, a man who has walked down a tough road but never gave up on his goals. He was overlooked at the beginning but now he overlooks Lake Tahoe in his large house. Even though it looked bleak at first Stallone kept with it and ended up changing American views, the movie industry, and also he showed us that “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Sylvester Stallone’s birth wasn’t the easiest operation for a doctor. On July 6th, 1947, Stallone was pulled from his mother, Jackie Stallone’s womb by the doctor’s forceps which ended up severing a facial nerve. This paralyzed the lower left half of his face, which gave him his iconic look and slightly slurred speech today. Young Sylvester Stallone was born into a troubled marriage, for his first five years he lived in the infamous Hell’s Kitchen going to-and-from assorted foster homes. Eventually his parents got their act together and they were all reunited as a family. Due to Stallone’s birth accident, his face and speech made him an outcast in school, which in turn led to multiple fights and poor grades. His father and mother got divorced when Stallone was eleven and soon after, he was sent to a school for “troubled kids”. He moved to Philadelphia where he attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School which is where he first started acting and was also a football player. After high school Sylvester Stallone went to instruct at the American College of Switzerland in Geneva. After a couple years he returned to the United States and enrolled for college. He enrolled at the University of Miami hoping to get a major in drama. Stallone’s college life didn’t last long because he dropped out to pursue an acting career in New York. The jobs didn’t come easy in the beginning like they do now, but Stallone stuck with it and played some minor roles before he blasted off in 1976 when he wrote “Rocky”. This jumpstarted his career to becoming the man we know
Michael Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone, a man who has walked down a tough road but never gave up on his goals. He was overlooked at the beginning but now he overlooks Lake Tahoe in his large house. Even though it looked bleak at first Stallone kept with it and ended up changing American views, the movie industry, and also he showed us that “It ain’t over till it’s over.”
Sylvester Stallone’s birth wasn’t the easiest operation for a doctor. On July 6th, 1947, Stallone was pulled from his mother, Jackie Stallone’s womb by the doctor’s forceps which ended up severing a facial nerve. This paralyzed the lower left half of his face, which gave him his iconic look and slightly slurred speech today. Young Sylvester Stallone was born into a troubled marriage, for his first five years he lived in the infamous Hell’s Kitchen going to-and-from assorted foster homes. Eventually his parents got their act together and they were all reunited as a family. Due to Stallone’s birth accident, his face and speech made him an outcast in school, which in turn led to multiple fights and poor grades. His father and mother got divorced when Stallone was eleven and soon after, he was sent to a school for “troubled kids”. He moved to Philadelphia where he attended Notre Dame Academy and Lincoln High School which is where he first started acting and was also a football player. After high school Sylvester Stallone went to instruct at the American College of Switzerland in Geneva. After a couple years he returned to the United States and enrolled for college. He enrolled at the University of Miami hoping to get a major in drama. Stallone’s college life didn’t last long because he dropped out to pursue an acting career in New York. The jobs didn’t come easy in the beginning like they do now, but Stallone stuck with it and played some minor roles before he blasted off in 1976 when he wrote “Rocky”. This jumpstarted his career to becoming the man we know
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