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"In the original script (for Rocky Balboa), she was alive," reveals Stallone, 60. "But it just didn't have the same dramatic punch. I thought, 'What if she's gone?' That would cut Rocky's heart out and drop him down to ground zero."
Burt's early life is still pretty much clouded in mystery. He simply won't talk about it very much, and it comes out only in a mixture of hints and euphemisms.
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