| Sylvester
Stallone has informed Talia Shire they'll start shooting
Rocky II next October - but he still hasn't told
her where their on-screen love affair will lead them. If
it's up to Talia they'll head to the altar in the
sequel's opening reels, for as she keeps reminding the
man who became last year's Hollywood champ as
creator/star of the film, "our living in sin in Rocky
got me bombed out with a Catholic newspaper and got my
mother very upset." Talia's mama should be
relieved to learn that even if the hitching doesn't take
place in the upcoming feature, it's a cinch to happen in
Rocky III or Rocky IV or . . .
Stallone
is still determined he'll keep writing sequel after
sequel to the story, and that as his life goes, so will
the child of his creation. As Ms. Shire explains,
"if Sly feels he's been exploited by fame, the same
thing will happen to Rocky." And if Stallone's life
lakes a wrong turn, then Rocky will also follow a rocky
course. "Crazy it sounds," she says, "but
interesting."
Talia
believes the nine-hour version of The Godfather
which NBC will air next month will be even more
interesting than the two Godfather films that
copped so many Academy Awards. Talia received a Best
Actress nomination for Godfather II and points
out that the feature was written as a six-hour movie.
She says that both she and her brother Francis Coppola
(who directed the films and kept an eye on editing of
the TV presentation) feel that combining the original
footage with some two hours of Godfather film
never seen on screen, will give the story a new
freshness.
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