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The film went on to earn 10 Academy Award nominations, including nods for best actor, director and picture. To follow up on his breakthrough role, Stallone next starred as a labor organizer in F. He received some favorable reviews for his work, but the film failed to attract much of an audience. Returning to the film that made him famous, Stallone wrote, directed and starred in Rocky II He kept the franchise going a few years later with Rocky III That same year, Stallone introduced a new character to moviegoers — John Rambo, a disenfranchised and troubled Vietnam vet — in First Blood Rambo ends up going to war with the police in a small town after being mistreated by authorities.
Once again, Stallone struck box-office gold. He went behind the scenes for his next effort, Staying Alive , which he wrote and directed. Although the film featured John Travolta reprising his breakout role from Saturday Night Fever , it did not fare as well as the original.
Trying to branch out as an actor, Stallone starred opposite Dolly Parton in the comedy Rhinestone The film was a commercial and critical failure. He also starred in the comedy Oscar as well as the futuristic action flick Demolition Man , which co-starred Wesley Snipes and Sandra Bullock. He made a series of forgettable films, including Judge Dredd and Daylight He earned strong reviews for his portrayal of a sheriff in a small New Jersey town largely inhabited by New York City cops.
Returning to his leading man status, Stallone starred in the crime thriller Get Carter , which received mixed reviews. He then wrote, co-produced and starred in the car-racing drama Driven Another effort, Shade , came and went without much notice. Stallone once again returned to familiar territory to write another chapter of his most popular creation.
The former heavyweight champion, long retired, decides to go for one more big fight. It is kind of bittersweet. Even the industry outside Gospel music took note of all that Dottie Rambo accomplished. The 21st century brought her back into the recording studio making her 71st album, Stand by the River. Again it was a chart topper — giving Dottie hit records through five decades. Tragically, as her tour dates were again increasing, her life was to come to an end.
The Christian music world, family, and friends were devastated by the loss. Over four thousand people attended her home-going service at Christ Church in Nashville, Tennessee.
The choir loft was packed full of singers and songwriters from the Christian music world who wanted to participate in her remembrance led by Bill Gaither. Even then-President George W. Bush sent a flag from the White House that had flown on the day of her passing.
It seemed the whole country felt her loss. But her spirit lives through the music she has left behind. In September, , a posthumous CD of songs she was recording at the time of her death were released. The songs of Dottie Rambo have proven staying power. Through good times and bad, triumph and trial, they are there to console, uplift and sometimes just make you laugh.
Her songs — emanating from record, cassette, CD players, and digital files — are the modern-day campfire we all gather around and feel warmed. Tuesday, October 26, Rambo's initial military service in Vietnam was actually only a small taste of what was coming for him. He served two tours with the st Airborne before returning to the United States to begin the kind of training that would ultimately make him a legend.
Rambo underwent extensive combat and survival training, learned to speak the many languages of Southeast Asia, and he became proficient in numerous types of weaponry, from vehicles to handguns. He quickly became a Green Beret, and soon after, he was sent back to Vietnam as part of Baker Team, an eight-man group of the Special Forces elite who specialized in classified missions.
Rambo continued working in deep cover and reconnaissance missions, with some additional training, until he was captured by the Viet Cong after an ambush and became a prisoner of war. For the next several months, he watched as his captors tortured his comrades from Baker Team, as he was tortured himself via hard labor and sleep deprivation. On top of all that, he was tied up and cut with a knife, which gave him his trademark scars.
Fortunately, Rambo managed to escape the POW camp. He returned to military service, but the deep trauma he'd suffered began to show through in the form of a nervous breakdown, and eventually, the man was honorably discharged.
Over the course of his military career, Rambo was credited with 59 confirmed kills, and he earned four Bronze Stars, two Silver Stars, four Purple Hearts, the Distinguished Service Cross, and a Congressional Medal of Honor for his service to his country. When he returned home, though, he found America less than hospitable to Vietnam veterans, and he spent the next five years struggling as his post-traumatic stress disorder from the war went untreated.
This made Rambo the last surviving member of Baker Team. Rambo moved on, and wandered into the nearby town of Hope, where the local sheriff Will Teasle tried to quickly usher him out of town for fear that he'd cause trouble.
Rambo, who was just looking for something to eat, went back into Hope anyway, leading Teasle to arrest him. Teasle's deputies began harassing and threatening Rambo at the station, causing him to have flashbacks to his time as a prisoner of war.
And then suddenly, the man just snapped, going into Vietnam War mode. Using his Green Beret skills, Rambo fought his way out of the station before making his getaway on a stolen motorcycle. In the ensuing search, Teasle's deputy, Art Galt, began firing at Rambo from a helicopter.
Desperate, Rambo jumped from a cliff face to a tree, injuring himself in the process. With Galt bearing down on him, Rambo retaliated by hurling a rock at the chopper. As a result, the helicopter pilot lost control, and Galt fell to his death. Yeah, Rambo hand't meant to kill the guy, and yeah, it was self-defense, but now he was wanted for killing a cop.
Dismayed over the death of Galt, Rambo tried to convince Teasle that it was accidental, and he begged the sheriff for no more trouble. Teasle, driven to rage by the loss of his friend, continued the fight, as Rambo incapacitated his deputies in the woods. The National Guard arrived to help with the search, and with them came Col. Sam Trautman , Rambo's former commanding officer. That is sacred too. She recorded her last solo album, titled Lady Live, in June of at the Anaheim Convention Center in California for an audience of almost ten thousand.
Light Records packaged this live album with a handsome set of graphics and a Hollywood-styled cover. All for naught. I want Reba to stay in the field and use all the talents God has given her. She can have a tremendous influence. When she and McGuire married in the fall of , the controversy surrounding Reba escalated.
Aside from the interior booklet, the album cover itself caused a controversy when it arrived in Christian bookstores. The cover showed Reba in a tattered dress, sitting in a pile of trash, holding a dead bird. Shot at Union Station, an abandoned Nashville train station, the cover was deemed inappropriate and the record company swiftly replaced the cover with a plain Black cover with a centered headshot of Reba.
It would be the last of her solo albums to chart to date. Reba left The Rambos in to pursue her full-time solo career. Unlike her contemporaries in Jesus Music who had a folk-centered sound, Lady revealed a new possibility for this expanding genre, incorporating elements of jazz, soul and light rock. Lady established Reba as the premier "adult contemporary singer" in Christian music.
She said in an interview in that she never had formal training in music: "All I know was taught to me by Mom and Daddy.
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