Sylvester Stallone is one of America’s most recognizable actors. He also stands as a rare representation of sanity in Hollywood, refusing to dance to the industry’s carefully choreographed ideological drumbeat.
His new memoir, “The Steps,” documents his rather fascinating rise to fame.
Casting agents repeatedly shoved him out of their offices, telling him his voice sounded like a broken garbage disposal and his face looked like a stroke survivor’s.
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The story starts on July 6, 1946, in a maternity ward in Hell’s Kitchen. The delivery went sideways when a careless doctor dragged him into the world with a pair of forceps, severing a facial nerve and paralyzing the lower left side of his lip, chin, and tongue.
Hangdog sneer
The easily avoidable accident left him with a permanent hangdog sneer
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