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In my first visit to Souther California, my guide took me to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. After gawking at the stores and the price tags, we stumbled into an art gallery that was having quite a function — lots of guys with slicked-back pony tails, black suits, black shirts, and black ties [Cut them ...

By Daniel W. Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

October 18, 2005, 8:18 PM

In my first visit to Souther California, my guide took me to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. After gawking at the stores and the price tags, we stumbled into an art gallery that was having quite a function -- lots of guys with slicked-back pony tails, black suits, black shirts, and black ties [Cut them some slack -- this was 1990--ed.] It turned out that we had stumbled into a retrospective of the artwork of... Sylvester Stallone. The piece of his I remember the most was "Rocky V." This was a collage of typed manuscript pages on a canvas with gobs of paint splattered everywhere. It was very... three-dimensional. I dredge this memory out of my brain and inflict it on all of you because of this Associated Press story:

In my first visit to Souther California, my guide took me to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. After gawking at the stores and the price tags, we stumbled into an art gallery that was having quite a function — lots of guys with slicked-back pony tails, black suits, black shirts, and black ties [Cut them some slack — this was 1990–ed.] It turned out that we had stumbled into a retrospective of the artwork of… Sylvester Stallone. The piece of his I remember the most was “Rocky V.” This was a collage of typed manuscript pages on a canvas with gobs of paint splattered everywhere. It was very… three-dimensional. I dredge this memory out of my brain and inflict it on all of you because of this Associated Press story:

Rocky is planning another comeback. Fifteen years after starring in “Rocky V,” Sylvester Stallone is reprising his role as the boxing champ in the sixth “Rocky” movie, publicist Michelle Bega said Monday. The 59-year-old actor will write and direct “Rocky Balboa,” which will begin shooting in Philadelphia and Las Vegas next year. Stallone told the Daily Variety trade magazine the movie will focus on an aging, widowed Rocky who is reluctant to get back in the ring but ends up doing it “just to compete, not to win.”

I look forward with bated breath to see the work of art that Stallone will forge out of this screenplay. Readers are strongly encouraged to suggest an age-appropriate opponent for Stallone’s senior boxing flick. With apologies to Fight Club, I’d have to vote for William Shatner.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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