Off-stage, thank heavens, it was another story! Among his many acting honors the list is too great to delve into here were back-to-back Academy Award nominations, in for The Day of the Locust and in for Rocky. The response was unbelievable. Separately, they are failures — anachronisms.
Their future is together. In , of course, boffo box office did not necessarily require that a sequel be made, but Rocky did return, in , and the structure of his second movie, remarkably, mirrors the first. The major innovation—or correction—is that, in a high-drama rematch, Rocky defeats Creed.
Personal victories and moral victories are no longer enough: the audience is now, unambiguously, supporting a winner. His sloppy hair has been tamed and reconstructed by some stern product of the era. His body has gone from solid and bulky—a heavyweight—to ripped, a gaudy sculpture for a new-money art collector. The greatest fictional fighter of all time, a man whose name is synonymous with victory, and the chapter of his life in which he actually reigns as champ registers barely as a footnote.
But where would the drama be in watching someone merely maintain his dominance? This did seem to make perfect sense in the eighties. New Rocky, like old Rocky, perches on the verge of retirement, but a threat to his ego by the rage-fuelled, tiger-eyed Clubber Lang Mr.
T lures him back. Apollo Creed had been nearly as sympathetic and charismatic as our hero, but Lang is all comic-book villainy. He made his Broadway theatre debut as Peter in Le Gallienne's production of Romeo and Juliet and became a star in Maxwell Anderson's Winterset , which became his film debut the following year. His early life and theatre work were the subject of a The New Yorker profile.
She subsequently cast him in several of her later productions. He played Hamlet in avant-garde theatrical and radio productions of the play. A distinguished theatre director, he won a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway theatre staging of Ulysses in Nighttown , a theatrical adaptation of the "Nighttown" section of James Joyce's Ulysses.
Joe He also played alongside Lana Turner in Madame X. As a result of the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigation into Communist influence in Hollywood, Meredith was placed on the Hollywood blacklist, resulting in a seven-year drought of work. Meredith played Rocky Balboa's trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three Rocky films , and , to great acclaim. Even though his character died in the third Rocky film, he returned briefly in the fifth film, Rocky V After his death, Rocky recalled his former mentor in flashbacks during the events of his later matches.
Rocky Wiki Explore. Popular pages. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Mickey Goldmill. History Talk 1. Height 5 ft 5. Warning: The following section is non-canon. Universal Conquest Wiki. April 7, in Philadelphia, PA, U. Rocky Balboa's trainer and mentor.
Burgess Meredith.
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