Spring equinox with its balanced periods of darkness and light is a perilous time for the Ram, who prefers to mood-swing from yin to yang, Bartles to Jaymes, and feit to counterfeit. So if there's too much Joel Gray in your astral brew, reinforce with infusions of Camille Paglia; too much Wayne Newton, unleaven with tincture of Al Gore.
Sylvester Stallone Says Rolling Stones Soundtrack Boosts Rocky 6
Nov 27, 2006, 08:58
Jagger has already written a lame music score for his pal Jude Law.
HOLLYWOOD - Sylvester Stallone believes the Rolling Stones soundtrack boosts "the street cred" for Rocky VI: The Beating Goes On. Sipping a Metamucil-carrot juice cocktail at a health food store, Stallone, 62, told THEM Weekly that he was impressed by the work of the Stones, 250, "who have been given up for dead more times than I have."
There are, indeed, parallels between Rocky's career and the Stones'. Both were charmingly scruffy newcomers given little chance of wresting the heavyweight title from their opponents: Apollo Creed in Rocky's case; the Beatles in the Stones' match-up. Each prevailed, however, when their opponents couldn't beat the count or Yoko Ono, respectively. After snatching victory from the defeat of paws, both Rocky and the Stones allowed excess to go to their heads and their performances declined embarrassingly.
"No, man, Elton John wrote 'Philadelphia Freedom.'"
Stallone was knocked from pilferage to post in the brain-numbing Rockies III, IV, and V. The Stones followed anywhere the trends blew, from the undercooked Goat's Head Soup to their latest "best-album-in-years," A Bigger Bang, which would have been the lamest effort by a British old fart band last year if Paul McCartney hadn't released Chaos and Cremation in the Backyard. In Mr. McCartney's yard, more is always less.
True to the Stones penchant for copping other people's licks, A Bigger Bang even contained a protest song, "Sweet Neo-Con," an obvious attempt to jump on the bandwagon driving with verve and elan by a much younger, much more exciting Green Day. The difference between the Stones and Green Day, of course, is the fact that Green Day played its anti-Bush music in public while Mick Jagger gave interviews saying he really wasn't criticizing the president in "Sweet Neo-Con," which has yet to see the light of stage and obviously never will.
In addition to writing the music for Rocky VI, Mr. Jagger was briefly considered for the role of Rocky's manager, formerly played by Burgess Meredith, who died in 1997 at the age of 89.
"We would have had to make Mick look younger for the role," said Mr. Stallone, "but other than that I think he would have been a natural. Perhaps in Rocky VII."
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Spring equinox with its balanced periods of darkness and light is a perilous time for the Ram, who prefers to mood-swing from yin to yang, Bartles to Jaymes, and feit to counterfeit. So if there's too much Joel Gray in your astral brew, reinforce with infusions of Camille Paglia; too much Wayne Newton, unleaven with tincture of Al Gore.
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