According to Sylvester Stallone, The first choice for Adrian ( in the movie Rocky ) was a girl named Carrie Snodgress, who I wanted badly because, at the time, I wanted Adrian's family to be Irish and Harvey Keitel would be the brother.

According to several members from the set, Stallone directed the majority of the film, despite not receiving co-director credit.

According to Eddie Murphy on Inside the Actor's Studio, Stallone also envisioned a " harder edged " screenplay.

According to Matt Groening, the show had written an entire episode around Planet Hollywood, which featured the voices of Schwarzenegger, Stallone, and Willis as The Three Stooges type of characters.

According to Stallone, The Party at Kitty and Stud's was financed by " a group of wealthy lawyers, very, very solid ".

According to a recent interview in Premiere, Hauer was told before filming that Stallone ran up building stairwells for exercise.

According to actor Nigel Davenport in an interview for the BBC's Wogan show, Stallone performed the scene where he was winched up to the tram without a double.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

" According to Thrasher, he spent around $ 300, which was more than the fine, even though his lawyer had worked pro bono.

According to post-Abacha governmental sources, some $ 3 or $ 4 billion USD in foreign assets have been traced to Abacha, his family and their representatives, $ 2. 1 billion of which the Nigerian government tentatively came to an agreement with the Abacha family to return, with the quid pro quo being that the Abachas would be allowed to keep the rest of the money.

According to this book, this ideology is also deeply feminist and pro " freedom of the European peoples " ( i. e. pro self-determination for the Basque Country, Corsica or Catalonia herself ).

According to Plutarch, every autumn, at the crypteia, the ephors would pro forma declare war on the helot population so that any Spartan citizen could kill a helot without fear of blood guilt.

According to the Legal Project's website, it acts in four ways to counteract Islamist threats to free speech, " Fundraising for an Escrow account to supplement the court costs and litigation fees for victims of Islamist lawfare ( all funds raised go directly to lawfare victims ); Arranging for pro bono and reduced rate counsel for victims of Islamist lawfare ; Maintaining an international network of attorneys dedicated to working pro bono in the defense of free speech ; and, Raising awareness about the issue.

According to the same article in Ephemerides Liturgicae, Cardinal Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano wrote in his Litteris Pastoralibus pro Quadragesima ( Pastoral Letters for Lent ) that " the sentence ' The evil spirits who wander through the world for the ruin of souls ' has a historical explanation that was many times repeated by his private secretary, Monsignor Rinaldo Angeli.

According to Rocky: The Ultimate Guide, Ivan Drago wasn't permitted to resume his boxing career after his loss to Rocky Balboa because of the special circumstance that he could not officially turn pro in the USSR.

According to the tradition of Quraish, while still in his teenage years, Umar learned martial arts, horse riding and wrestling.

According to Lawler's autobiogaphy It's Good to be the King ... Sometimes, WCW wrestler Glenn Gilbertti, better known to wrestling fans as Disco Inferno, was considered for the role of Lawler.

According to Nat Fleischer in The Ring, December 1951, page 3, this was an extremely dirty fight, with " wrestling, heeling, eye gouging, tripping, thumbing-in fact every dirty trick known to the old timers .." Referee Ray Miller " let the bout get out of hand ..." " The pattern of the ' contest ' never varied.

According to family legend, Harmon Killebrew's grandfather was the strongest man in the Union Army, winning every available heavyweight wrestling championship.

According to wrestling journalist Dave Meltzer, he was asked on the spot to sign a new contract but declined.

According to Politico. com, " the WWF fired two men accused of harassing the young ' ring boys ' who followed the wrestling circuit from city to city, and accepted the resignation of a third ".

According to the storyline, his back was not in wrestling condition and so he introduced Buddy Landel as his substitute, who was subsequently defeated by Johnson in just forty-two seconds.

According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles, there are five current International wrestling disciplines acknowledged throughout the world.

According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles ( FILA ), Greco-Roman wrestling is one of the six main forms of amateur competitive wrestling practised internationally today.

According to biographer Albert Beveridge, " He joined with gusto in outdoor sports — foot-races, jumping and hopping contests, town ball, wrestling.

According to the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles ( FILA ), freestyle wrestling is one of the four main forms of amateur competitive wrestling that are practiced internationally today.

According to various wrestling news reports, as well as his own MySpace page, Roberts was placed in a 14-week voluntary rehab program by WWE as of December 10, 2007.

According to a 1999 article by IGN, Revenge was the best-selling wrestling game for the N64 console, and at the time, was the top selling third-party Nintendo game ever.

According to an athletics participation survey taken by the National Federation of State High School Associations, boys ' wrestling ranked eighth in terms of the number of schools sponsoring teams, with 9, 445 schools participating in the 2006-07 school year.

According to one wrestling website, magician Franz Harary performed the illusions.

According to wrestling writers Brian Fritz and Christopher Murray, the event insulted fans, upset viewers, and alerted other wrestlers in the company to problems in the company.

Like the title character in The World According to Garp and Irving himself, Jack finds a talent for wrestling and an extended family that aids and hinders him through his trials as a young man coming of age, including his sexual awakening and abuse as an adolescent.

According to the school system's Special Commissioner of Investigation, Kaye falsely claimed 11 sick days in December 2004 and February 2005, during which time he was actually wrestling in Japan.

According to legend, Ambrose immediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan.

According to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they had just said, they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.

According to legend, Albertus Magnus is said to have discovered the philosopher's stone and passed it to his pupil Thomas Aquinas, shortly before his death.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

According to the legend, it was where festive Adonia took place, in which athletes competed in hunting wild boars during sport competitions ; they also competed in dancing and singing, all to the honour of Adonis.

According to legend, this prompted Ananda to focus his efforts on the attainment of nibbana and he was able to reach the specified level of attainment before the calling of the conclave.

According to popular legend, his raiders gained access to the walled town with the aid of a local woman who sympathised with the rebellion, letting a small party in via the Market Street gate at midnight.

* Nicholas of Flue ( According to legend, he survived for nineteen years with no food except for the Eucharist.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

According to legend, the cross was erected over the kistvaen ( burial chamber ) of Childe the Hunter, who was Ordulf, son of Ordgar, an Anglo-Saxon Earl of Devon in the 11th century.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.

According to the New American Bible, a Catholic Bible translation produced by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the story of the Nephilim in Genesis 6: 1-4 " is apparently a fragment of an old legend that had borrowed much from ancient mythology ", and the " sons of God " mentioned in that passage are " celestial beings of mythology ".

According to a Sinhalese legend, Kandyan dances originated 250 years ago, from a magic ritual that broke the spell on a bewitched king.

According to one authority ( a legend on the 1489 map of Henricus Martellus Germanus ), Cão died off Cape Cross ; but João de Barros and others wrote of his return to the Congo, and subsequent taking of a native envoy to Portugal.

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.

According to the legend Orestes founded Nemi together with Iphigenia.

According to the legend the flag, Dannebrog, was given to the Danes from God himself, and from that day forward, it was the flag of Denmark and the Danish kings.

According to British legend ( see: Historia Brittonum ) the territory known later as Essex was ceded by the Britons to the Saxons following the infamous Brad y Cyllyll Hirion event which occurred ca.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

According to a Jewish legend, one of the Essenes, named Menachem, had passed at least some of his mystical knowledge to the Talmudic mystic Nehunya ben HaKanah, to whom the Kabbalistic tradition attributes Sefer HaBahir and, by some opinions, Sefer HaKanah, Sefer HaPeliah and Sefer HaTemunah.

According to the legendary account in the Kojiki, Emperor Jimmu would have been born on 13 February 711 BC ( the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar ), and died, again according to legend, on 11 March 585 BC ( both dates according to the lunisolar traditional Japanese calendar ).

According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

According to one version of the legend, Chūai's son was born three years after the death of Chūai, which lends further support to the notion that the stories surrounding him are based on myth rather than actual events.

According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.

According to the Polish Kabbalist, " the legend was known to several persons, thus allowing us to speculate that the legend had indeed circulated for some time before it was committed to writing and, consequently, we may assume that its origins are to be traced to the generation immediately following the death of R. Eliyahu, if not earlier.