Philly Streets Packed With Rocky Hopefuls. Yes, it's true. Sly Stallone is making another Rocky movie (it will be the sixth), and crowds of people showed up in Philly today hoping to be cast as extras. Stallone has said that the movie will focus on an aging, widowed Rocky who is reluctant to get back in the ring but ends up doing it "just to compete, not to win." (I guess this means Talia Shire won't be in this one, trying to talk Rocky out of fighting? Except maybe as a ghost?). Here's the AP article:

http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/news/wire/sns-ap-box-rockys-extras,0,3541792.story?coll=sns-ap-entertainment-headlines

Here are two key paragraphs:

Casting director Diane Heery said filming has already started in Las Vegas and is expected to start in Philadelphia on Jan. 9 and last about four weeks. Stallone would pick many of the extras needed for scenes shot in various city locations, Heery said.

"They want the character and personality of Philadelphia," Heery said. "We're looking for the face to tell the story of Philadelphia. We're looking for real people."

Good. But I hope this movie is better than the incredibly boring Rocky V (1990), which also was filmed mainly in Philadelphia. That movie was a slight embarrassment to the city.