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The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday”, presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album.
This new issue of season 5 of the magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter) tells how the body and sport played a decisive role in the lives of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sylvester Stallone…
The day when > Belmondo is saved by sport
Jean-Paul Belmondo, who passed away in September 2021, remains in everyone’s memory for his immense talent, his career in cinema, with more than 80 films, and in the theater. But he had another passion: that of the body and physical effort. He could have become a boxer and he was a goalkeeper in football. Much more than a hobby, sport has been a school of life for him. The body, he said, does not cheat. “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells how sport saved the life of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
And also, fists, muscles…
News > Stallone’s revenge
Using your body as a tool to better take your revenge? Sylvester Stallone is the perfect example. Following medical complications at birth, he suffers from facial paralysis which gives him this frozen look and attracts ridicule. Stallone will however use his body to establish himself as an actor with the film rocky, of which he is the screenwriter. The story of a little boxer asserting himself through courage, almost his own story. The actor becomes the third personality in the history of cinema, nominated for an Oscar in the Best Film and Best Screenplay categories, after Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles!
Bonus > Schwarzenegger, famous at all costs
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first nickname was “Austrian oak”… He who wanted to make a name for himself at all costs chose his body as a tool. He won 12 World Bodybuilding Championships, and was awarded the title of Mister Universe five times.
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– John Paul Belmondoby Gilles Durieux (ed. Le Cherche Midi).
– Belmondoby Philippe Durant (ed. Robert Laffont).
– Stallone, working class heroby David Da Silva (ed. Lettmotif).
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