Globe Draws No Blood from Stallone
Date: 07-06-2007
Posted by: Anabolic Info TeamUnited States |
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Why would a big movie star like Sylvester Stallone let a seedy supermarket tabloid like the Globe interview him about his recent arrest for importing human growth hormone?
Maybe because he was assured in advance of being asked kittenish questions such as: "It's hard to believe you're 61 next month. What's your secret to looking so fit and healthy?" And: "You're very smart. You paint, and your IQ is through the roof. Did you have to hide your intelligence so you could make your characters more believable?"
Or maybe it's because the Globe is owned by American Media Inc., which used to publish Sly, Stallone's vanity magazine, and which still publishes Muscle & Fitness and Flex, where he has advertised his InStone brand of bodybuilding supplements (and various flavors of protein pudding). (An AMI spokesman says InStone no longer advertises in its magazines.)
Those with even longer memories will recall that Stallone was the subject of a Premiere story that AMI chief David Pecker, then head of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, ordered killed in 1996, causing the magazine's editor in chief to resign.
Stallone's reps didn't reply when asked whether the interview was part of a quid pro quo. But the Globe certainly doesn't probe too deeply on the subject of Stallone's arrest, taking at face value his claim that the substance he brought with him to Australia, Jintropin, was "an amino acid, not a steroid ... The stuff I took thickens the bones and reinforces the tendons. But it's not a muscle-builder." In fact, according to its official website, Jintropin "is one of the most potent recombinant Human Growth Hormones on the market today .... Bodybuilders use Jintropin because it promotes growth of new muscle cells and uses body's own fat as energy source." To be fair, when you take as many supplements as Sly, it's probably hard to keep them all straight.
