Joe Queenan Has Not Been Home In A While
From his review of Rocky Balboa, published January 13th:
Since the permanent home of the somewhat cheesy Rocky statue is actually five miles to the south, outside the city’s famous Spectrum Arena, these stories actually lack credibility. Or at the very least, these reports of apocryphal photo shoots suggest that those claiming to be in possession of such pictures may have taken one too many shots to the head and simply imagined that they posed next to a statue outside the building that houses such masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp.
You know what? That’s a good thing.
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January 18th, 2007 at 11:28 am
The best part is Queenan’s conclusion, which really posits the question we all should have been asking at the time of the statue’s reinstallation:
Hey, why aren’t we celebrating Joe Frazier?
The answers, of course, are too ugly for the local media to bear.
January 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am
Aside from the obvious lack of fact checking on this article, it’s pretty funny and right on.
“This time, he will duke it out with Mason “The Line” Dixon (played by real-life boxer Antonio Tarver), an undefeated black man who, though prodigiously gifted, has never really been tested. That’s because up until now he has only battled tough black men in their 20s, but has never had to face the ultimate test: a 10-round bout with a decrepit Caucasian restaurateur pushing 60.”
January 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
“If you go to Philadelphia today, you can see the statue of Sylvester Stallone at the foot of the Art Museum steps, where it has temporarily been relocated as a fundraising gimmick.”
Philebrity could have at least read the whole article instead of spouting a token reactionary comment to a review that isn’t really even hostile towards philadelphia.