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‘I Play Rocky’ Celebrates Sylvester Stallone the Screenwriter — but Rocky Balboa Was Only the Beginning

After his Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Rocky," Stallone wrote or co-wrote 23 more features, becoming one of the most prolific and accomplished scribes of his era.

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In “I Play Rocky,” screenwriter Peter Gamble and director Peter Farrelly tell the unlikely true story of how an unemployed actor named Sylvester Stallone wrote “Rocky” and turned himself into one of the biggest movie stars in the world.…