SYLVESTER STALLONE

Everyone thought it odd when Nino Pernetti called the afternoon of Dec. 31, 2020, to say he was skipping the annual New Year’s Eve dinner.

The musician paid $52 million less than Rocky star first listed it for

They both carved out sterling reputations as military and political leaders over years of public service.

Dolph Lundgren is telling his side of the story and speaking of his relief after almost killing his pal and "Rocky IV" co-star Sylvester Stallone decades ago.

A multimillionaire dog named Gunther VI is selling his Miami mansion that was once owned by Madonna.

Dolph Lundgren was spotted out in the U.K. with his much younger fiancee while attending an event over the weekend.

Publicist Bobby Zarem has died at 84.

Jimmy Garoppolo threw one touchdown pass and ran in for a score, leading the San Francisco 49ers to a 17-11 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles.

Paul, a YouTuber-turned-boxer, is slated to fight Woodley, a UFC champion currently on a losing streak, in August.

This undated photo provided by 2020 UNDERDOG FILM PARTNERS shows film director Masaharu Take at the movie set of Underdog. Underdog opens the Tokyo International Film Festival, which starts Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020. (2020 UNDERDOG FILM PARTNERS via AP)TOKYO – Masaharu Take’s films have always focused on painful stories about Japan's “under-class,” people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically well-to-do. The heroes of his latest work, “Underdog,” couldn’t be more beaten down, stoically hardworking yet hopelessly under-class: They are boxers. “Underdog” premieres as the opener for the Tokyo International Film Festival, which starts Saturday and runs through Nov. 9.

( (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – This is no ordinary road to the Masters. Four of the top five players in the world are at Shadow Creek, with top-ranked Dustin Johnson pulling out after his positive test for the coronavirus. Rory McIlroy thinks Shadow Creek might be even better than what Florida offers because of the bentgrass greens that are fast with big slopes. “It's not a bad place to prepare for Augusta,” McIlroy said Wednesday. McIlroy is at Shadow Creek and Sherwood the next two weeks.

FILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this April 10, 2014, file photo, actor Nick Cordero attends the after-party for the opening night of "Bullets Over Broadway" in New York. Tony Award-nominated actor Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday, July 5, 2020, at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots. (Photo by Brad Barket/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK Tony Award-nominated actor Nick Cordero, who specialized in playing tough guys on Broadway in such shows as Waitress, A Bronx Tale and Bullets Over Broadway, has died in Los Angeles after suffering severe medical complications after contracting the coronavirus. Cordero died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai hospital after more than 90 days in the hospital, according to his wife, Amanda Kloots.

LOS ANGELES Movie producer, film financier, real estate heir and major Democratic political donor Steve Bing has died. The Los Angeles County coroner said Bing died Monday at his residence in the Century City section of Los Angeles. In the 1980s, Steve Bing dropped out of his fathers alma mater, Stanford University, where the elder Bing had donated $50 million, for a career in Hollywood. He got early credits as a co-writer for the 1984 Chuck Norris Vietnam vet movie Missing in Action and its two sequels. Bing was an LA socialite who frequently dated famous women and was often seen on red carpets, at big-dollar benefits and courtside at Lakers games.

In this April 3, 2020, photo, Timothy Frank visits the Rocky Statue at the Philadelphia Art Museum in Philadelphia. 2 in The Associated Press Top 25 favorite sports movies poll. From South Philly to Brazil and round the globe, an incalculable number of Rocky Balboa fans recreated the run made famous in Rocky and duplicated in sequels, spinoffs and Super Bowl spots. 2 in The Associated Press Top 25 favorite sports movies poll. There were several Rocky rounds that could have cracked the poll -- Rocky bred four sequels, Rocky Balboa, and two Michael B. Jordan-led Creed films.

Sylvester Stallone was spotted filming a new project at the "Rocky Steps" in Philadelphia this week and eager fans were able to snap a few pictures with him on set. "This thing has probably been touched by so many people, it's unbelievable," Stallone said, gesturing to the Rocky Balboa statue. #KeepPunching pic.twitter.com/uTTcHtypC3 Sylvester Stallone (@TheSlyStallone) December 17, 2019The fans included a group of shocked students on a field trip from Eastside High School. "But that's exactly what happened when the group made their way to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and found Sylvester Stallone." The first "Rocky" film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director and best film editing.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump received a split decision on Wednesday from tens of thousands of Twitter followers after he posted an image of his head superimposed on the muscular body of Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer from the movie series Rocky.President Donald Trump holds a campaign rally in Sunrise, Florida, U.S., November 26, 2019. His detractors used the tweet as an opportunity to take swings at Trump, calling the Republican president delusional and narcissistic.Is it just me or did this Trump Rocky photo make anyone else throw up in their mouth a little? tweeted actress Angela Belcamino. Actor Sylvester Stallone, who said I love Donald Trump in a 2016 interview with Variety, played Rocky Balboa in the Rocky movie series about a washed-up fighter in Philadelphia who rose up the ranks to win the heavyweight championship of the world. Rocky IV, in which Balboa beat Russian Ivan Drago, opened in theaters on this date in 1985, which could explain why Trump posted the image on Wednesday. Some in the media speculated that it was in reference to his ability to fight off controversy during the ongoing impeachment inquiry in Congress.

2012: Filmmaker and actor Sage Stallone, the son of action star Sylvester Stallone, is found dead in his Los Angeles home at the age of 36. It was later ruled that he died of a heart attack three to seven days prior to being found. Sage Stallone (seen here with his uncle Frank Stallone in 2006) made his acting debut alongside his father in 1990s "Rocky V" and also appeared with his father in 1996's "Daylight." Hide Caption