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During the filming of the movie The Expendables, star Sylvester Stallone suffered a broken neck during a fight scene with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. "Actually, my fight with Stone Cold Steve Austin was so vicious that I ended up getting a hairline fracture in my neck. I'm not joking. I haven't told anyone this, but I had to have a very serious operation afterwards. I now have a metal plate in my neck."

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Hollywood test audiences are always giving low ratings to movies with depressing endings, sending them back to the editing room for a little “cheering up.” But it’s not just the grainy independent films about forbidden romances and snooty aristocracies that get recalled. Some of Tinseltown’s biggest blockbusters got a heavy dose of Paxil...

Police say a man walked into the Subway sandwich shop on West Little York and tried to rob it. But instead of getting the cash, the woman behind the counter served him a "knuckle sandwich." “When the register opened, he lunged over and grabbed it. My initial response was to hit him. So I hit him,” Subway employee Yava Matthews said. Police say Tracy Armstead, 29, attempted to rob the sandwich shop on Monday night. When Matthews hit him, he fell back into the wall, but he still had the cash drawer in his hands. “When he proceeded to run...

So a friend and I are having an argument on who would win between Rocky and Rambo. Maybe some of you out there would like to weigh in on the topic. Or not...

Oscar-nominated actors are the most dignified members of our species. They play the serious roles that inspire us and hold a special place of reverence in our culture. But not in Japan. In a country where demoralization is the national pastime, our revered actors, Academy Award nominees and winners both, sell their own dignity for a paycheck because they assume we Americans will never see it. But thanks to the Internet, we can celebrate their shame any time we want.

Stallone coming out of a restaurant is pegged by the razzi and autograph hounds...the political questions fly and Sly shows McCain/Palin some love...especially Palin ;) http://www.tmz.com/videos?mediaKey=600fa4fa-44a4-4605-83f1-154dc8d743b8

Nelly Avila Moreno, FARC's 'Karina', captured by Colombian forces in war on drugs By Jeremy McDermott in Medellin Last Updated: 2:16AM BST 20/05/2008 One of Colombia's most renowned rebel fighters, and the guerrillas' senior female commander, has surrendered in yet another victory for the US-backed war policy of Oxford-educated President Alvaro Uribe. Nelly Avila Moreno, the notorious FARC rebel better known as Karina, had a £400,000 bounty on her head "We have been after this woman for a long time," said Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos, "but she always gave us the slip." Half-starved and wounded Nelly Avila Moreno, better...

One of the most ironic twists to the ongoing mission in Afghanistan emerged from the NATO meetings held in Brussels last week. With member countries either reluctant or unable to add military resources, NATO is now seeking assistance from Russia, its erstwhile Cold War enemy and one-time "evil occupier" of Afghanistan. In fact, the irony is so thick that we should first roll back decades' worth of propaganda and start at the very beginning. NATO was formed in 1949 as a collective self-defence alliance to prevent any encroachment of the Soviet Union into Western Europe. The Soviets responded to this...

LOS ANGELES - Sylvester Stallone says his latest "Rambo" film and its tag line are inspiring real-life opponents of Myanmar's military rulers. "Either live for something, die for nothing — it's your choice," the 61-year-old actor-director said Saturday in a phone call from Paris, where he is promoting the movie, the fourth in a series. "Students have now used this film as a rallying point and are using the quote, thinking maybe the American military will intervene and save them," he said. "Rambo" has the disaffected Vietnam vet John Rambo trying to find missionaries captured by Myanmar soldiers, who are...

Today President Bush traveled to West Virginia to attend the annual Congress of Tomorrow Luncheon. There the president spoke about the economy and the need to renew the Protect America Act, which modernizes outdated foreign surveillance laws. The law is set to expire in just seven days. Our most solemn duty is to protect the American people, and I appreciate the fact that we've worked closely together over the last seven years to do just that. That is our most solemn duty. Fortunately, we've got a lot of good people working hard to help us protect America. And these professionals...

John McCain says he's ready to run the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, just like Rocky Balboa did, now that he's got the support of actor Sylvester Stallone...

....It's pretty likely that some people will be heartily offended by Rambo; once again an American hero is mowing down hordes of brown skinned people who have no redeeming qualities or humanity. The leader of the Burmese troops is not only a killer and an %#%^!, he's a gay pedophile! I believe the guy had a mustache but I don't remember it being twirled. But the fact is nobody expects - or wants - reality or complexity in a Rambo movie. Hell, one of the main themes of this movie is that killing is necessary, and missionaries who spend the...

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49-Year-Old Rambo Headed for Iraq Thursday, August 23, 2007 12:59 PM Article Font Size They call Damian Horne “Grandpa Rambo.” The Sante Fe, N.M., public defender volunteered for a 9-month deployment with a special forces unit of the Colorado National Guard and is scheduled to ship out for Iraq in October. Damian Horne turns 49 on Friday. “I really wanted to support what I believe is an honorable job,” said Horne, a former Army Ranger and reserve Green Beret who has a 3-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. “I looked at the men and women who are serving, and I...

Gruesome 'Rambo' Trailer Slays on Internet http://video.aol.com/video-search/id/4151401962 When a movie series has been dormant for nearly 20 years, what's the best way to resurrect it? For 'Rambo,' it's with cartoonish violence and tons of viral buzz. The trailer for 'John Rambo,' the newest installation in Sylvester Stallone 's Vietnam Vet-turned-vigilante series, was posted online earlier this week, and has generated movie Internet buzz akin to the "Snakes on a Plane" phenomenon. On Youtube, the two clips have garnered more than a million views. Gore, Guts and Tons of Buzz Click Here to Watch the 'John Rambo' Trailer (Warning: Extremely Graphic...

Rambo This next item was forwarded to me by my friend and fellow Del Cityan Dorothy "Jingles" Rimbold, a retired Marine. It speaks volumes about the brave people in Afghanistan (and there are many here in Iraq, too) that see the big picture- that for freedom's sake WE CANNOT LET THE TERRORISTS WIN!!- and are willing to do courageous things for the cause.So why do some in Congress want us to turn out backs on such people?***Hi everyone. I'm still alive but freezing my tail off. We got 8 inches of snow last week and it reached 5 degrees below...

There is trouble outside Camp Phoenix. The American base on the dusty outskirts of Kabul has called for English translators. The problem is, the Americans have now hired their translator, and a crowd of Afghan job hunters at the camp gate is getting unruly. The US soldiers are nervous. One yells obscenities and waves his gun. The crowd cowers but doesn't budge. Then, another soldier steps forward, armed only with a thick wooden staff, wrapped in peeling red tape. The name tag on his broad chest says "Rambo," and though he wears US Army fatigues, he speaks in perfect Dari,...

Thailand's film chiefs have told the makers of the next Rambo sequel due to start filming in the southeast nation early next year to avoid excessive violence for fear of corrupting youth or damaging the environment. "We have warned them that any violence has to be reasonable because we care about young people," said Wanasiri Morakul, a director at the Thailand Film Office. In the planned movie, "Rambo IV: In the Serpent's Eye," the renegade Vietnam veteran played by Sylvester Stallone comes out of retirement in Bangkok to track down missionary aid workers who disappear in the jungles of military-ruled...

PEGGY PEATTIE / Union-Tribune Lisa Maree Gaut was arraigned Thursday in the case involving Chargers linebacker Steve Foley. The charges against her include assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer. Conflicting versions of the controversial shooting of San Diego Chargers linebacker Steve Foley unfolded yesterday during and after a court hearing in which Foley's female companion pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. The prosecutor painted a picture of drunken, criminal behavior in which Foley was wounded by an off-duty police officer who felt he was “trapped” in a cul de sac near Foley's home and in danger...

His last bout was with his protègè-turned-rival Tommy Gunn in Rocky V. Now, more than 15 years on - and 30 years since first putting on his boxing gloves - Rocky Balboa is making another comeback. Hollywood sources confirmed last night that Sylvester Stallone has agreed to star in the sixth instalment of the Rocky saga. Filming starts in Los Angeles in December and Stallone, who will turn 60 next year, is also lined up to direct. A spokesman from the star's agent Paul Bloch said: 'There is a script, but it has yet to get the green light.' This...

“Then what is it you want?” “I want, what they want, and every other guy who came over here and spilled his guts and gave everything he had wants! For our country to love us as much as we love it. That’s what I want!”Such were the words of Vietnam War veteran and American icon John Rambo at the end of Rambo: First Blood Part II, the second highest grossing film of 1985. But despite the boffo success of Rambo and a few other summer flicks, Hollywood 1985 suffered through the biggest box office slump ever recorded. Until now that...

The Return of Rambo Source: Nu Image/Millennium Films May 29, 2005 US-based film production company Nu Image/Millennium Films have acquired the film rights to the "Rambo" film franchise from Miramax/Dimension Films, with principal shooting for Rambo IV to begin in Sofia, Bulgaria in January 2006, with filming locations in India and the USA. Sylvester Stallone, the Italian-American film actor who played the titular role in the "Rambo" film trilogy, signed with Nu Image/Millennium Films to begin Rambo IV in May 2005, stating that the production company had optioned a book for the new "Rambo," for which he has adapted a...

The Gunny strikes again. In the spring of 2004, Bob Newman, aka Gunny Bob of the "Gunny Bob Show" on Newsradio 850 KOA and a frequent guest analyst on the FOX News Channel, stunned the world by reporting that North Korea was developing a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the United States. In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on 15 Febraury 2005, Porter Goss, the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), confirmed the Gunny's report. And three years after the Gunny began reporting FBI surveillance of al Qaeda cells within the United States, FBI Director Robert...

Dimension are supposedly doing something with a popular film series for Sony: A treatment for the fourth 'Rambo' film. In it a married John Rambo would be fighting in New York City where his son has been kidnapped after a sadistic Islamic terrorist group takes over the United Nations building.Rambo tries to take down the terrorist group, knowing that his son is amongst them. The treatement has been released on the Internet stimulating public opinion about the film, causing fervor and controversy on film websites.The script is highly topical, written at a time when President George W. Bush was disagreeing...

John Rambo: Sir, do we get to win this time? That was a line uttered by Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II. Of course in this movie he's referring to Vietnam and our unfortunate "stalemate" in that war. More to the point, the dialogue illustrates that what the soldiers in the Vietnam War were feeling. Most scholars of that conflict would validate the soldiers by saying that the US Armed Forces were severely hamstrung against the North Vietnamese. From 1957 thru 1975 American soldiers racked up enemy bodies by the 100's but did not end the Communist aggression...

Shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday, the call came in to the Fort Myers police. Officer John Harrington radioed dispatchers about shots fired in the Fort Myers High cafeteria. The nightmare for every parent, teacher and student had begun: A madman with a gun was loose inside the school. Luckily, this nightmare was only make believe. It was real-life training for police and teachers in case a Columbine-type attack occurs in Fort Myers. The training at the school is the first of its kind for them. “I thought about what I would tell a roomful of students,” said geometry teacher Janeen...

Secrets of a Stone Age Rambo They thought they had found the corpse of an ancient shepherd, but the iceman from 5,300 years ago now turns out to have been a hi-tech warrior Robin McKie Sunday May 4, 2003 The Observer (UK) When hikers spotted a corpse poking from the Schnalstal glacier in the Austrian-Italian Alps in 1991, they thought they had found the body of a lost climber. Then researchers took a closer look and announced the iceman was an ancient shepherd, a primitive farm worker who had got lost in the mountains and had died of hypothermia. Yet...

Y'Osama, where you bin? RAMBO is back — and he’s gunning for terror chief Osama bin Laden. Hollywood veteran Sylvester Stallone is returning as the warrior hero after writing a script himself. Rambo IV is expected to hit cinemas next year, featuring action in Afghanistan and battles with the Taliban. A movie insider said: “The original story had Rambo killing bin Laden single-handed, but even Sly thought that was beyond the imagination. “Instead he will be the brains behind bin Laden’s downfall.” The idea has been talked about since the September 11 attacks. But bosses at Miramax, makers of the...