- Sylvester Stallone, 80, has released The Steps, a memoir covering his life up to Rocky's Best Picture win at the 1977 Oscars, The Independent reported on 29 September 2026.
- In The Steps, Sylvester Stallone says he told a director he would knock Richard Gere's teeth out on the 1973 set of The Lords of Flatbush.
- Sylvester Stallone writes that he and his father squared up on Rocky's final shooting day after his father failed to ring the timekeeper's bell on cue.
Sylvester Stallone memoir: 5 revelations, from Richard Gere to Rocky
The Steps traces the 80-year-old's road from cleaning lion cages at a New York zoo to the Oscars, including a stand-off with his own father on the last day of shooting Rocky.
Before Rocky made him famous, Sylvester Stallone was shovelling out lion cages at a New York zoo. That is one of the stories in The Steps, the 80-year-old's new memoir, which follows his life up to the night Rocky was named Best Picture at the 1977 Oscars, The Independent reported on Tuesday, 29 September. The book is a warts-and-all account…