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Tales of Love, Hope, and Happiness at America's Most Famous Steps
Paul Dry Books
November 2006
On Sale: November 14, 2006
144 pages
ISBN: 1589880293
EAN: 9781589880290
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Pulitzer Prize-winners Michael Vitez and Tom Gralish of
the Philadelphia Inquirer spent a year visiting the
Philadelphia Museum of Art to capture the stories
of "Rocky runners," who come from all over the world to
run up America's most famous steps--just as Sylvester
Stallone did in Rocky. People make the pilgrimage to mark
a new beginning, to seek inspiration, to celebrate an
accomplishment, to find the perfect backdrop for romance,
or simply because they love the movie. As one runner
says, "It gives you the feeling that anything is possible." The authors have uncovered a real cultural phenomenon, one
that centers on Philadelphia and draws people to Center
City, and yet, as Michael Vitez writes in his
introduction, is a true American, and even international,
rite of passage. The book includes fifty-two profiles and one hundred
photographs, together with a foreword by Sylvester
Stallone, and interviews with Rocky's Academy Award-
winning director John G. Avildsen, composer Bill Conti,
and cameraman Garrett Brown. In his foreword, Sylvester Stallone sums up his thoughts
on the phenomenon: "You can't borrow Superman's cape. You
can't use the Jedi laser sword. But the steps are there.
The steps are accessible. And standing up there, you kind
of have a piece of the Rocky pie."
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