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Stallone’s superstardom has been dwindling away steadily over the past ten years and is nearly finished at this point. With the exception of his campy role in Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, his past few releases like Avenging Angelo and D-Tox, have basically been straight to video duds. In fact, you’d have to go back nearly ten years to find Stallone’s last significant film, Cop Land. The engaging Scorsese –like thriller featured an uncharacteristically overweight and subdued Stallone who impressed critics with his performance. However, even that film was publicized as a minor comeback for Stallone, who had been in a slump with catastrophes like Daylight, Judge Dredd, and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot released in the few years prior. No other major Hollywood action star has such a large percentage of failures among his credits, with the exception of maybe Jean-Claude Van Damme (and where is he now?). Consequently, Stallone has been on a desperate campaign to recapture the spotlight, with quite unspectacular results. His reality show, “The Contender,” was cancelled after just one season and he’s been reduced to a few guest spots on the show “Las Vegas” (so has Van Damme, by the way).

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Lincoln Hawk: When I turn this hat around it is like flipping a switch

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On IMDM they list his salary as $20 per picture, still--and that's for his recent bad stuff. If he's in a slump, that's my kind of slump.

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