Entitled Angels with Big Trousers, the black-and-white faux-movie sketch featured Norman Pace playing " James Cagney as Rocky Pantaloon " and Gareth Hale playing " Somebody O ' Brien as The Irishman " ( Hale actually plays two Irishmen, Rocky's priest friend and a policeman ).

* Judith Deacon " Judi " ( née Hanson ) ( Moira Brooker ) — Jean's daughter, Penny & Stephen's niece, Sandy's best friend, Lionel's stepdaughter, Rocky's & Madge's step-granddaughter, and Alistair's wife

Centiback turned Rocky's friend Alan, his uncle Joe, Bulk and Skull, and his Ranger teammates into footballs.

Rocky's leather coat introduced in Rocky IV makes its second and final appearance in the franchise at the start of the movie.

A statue of Sylvester Stallone, depicted in his role of Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, stood for many years in front of the main ( Pattison Avenue ) entrance of the Spectrum, which had been represented in the movie as the site of Rocky's first and second fights with Apollo Creed.

In faux pas, Bugs acts out the police breaking in, demanding to know Rocky's whereabouts, a fight ensuing over the chest which he is in ( Bugs drags the chest up and down stairs plus sticks two swords in it in the process ), and Bugs play-acting a fight in which he eventually throws the cop out the window.

Ricky and two other Russian thugs fight Nick, but Nick beats them, then interrogates one of them, Rocky's right-hand-man Misha.

Mickey dies after this, and Rocky is then trained by Apollo Creed, his former opponent from the first two Rocky films, who polishes Rocky's fighting style.

Frank, Dr. Scott, Brad, and Riff Raff then discover Janet and Rocky together under the sheets in Rocky's birth tank, upsetting Frank and Brad.

Adrian ( Talia Shire ) shows up unexpectedly to give Rocky her support after initially refusing to travel to Russia because of her doubts on his fighting chances, resulting in Rocky's training having an added focus.

Rocky holds Pip at gunpoint, following him to a luxurious apartment that Pip insists is Rocky's.

Although this film was released in 1979, the ring announcers say that it takes place ten months after Rocky's first fight with Apollo Creed, putting the Rocky II fight with Apollo in November 1976.

After Rocky is discharged from the hospital, he begins to enjoy the benefits of his life's changes resulting from the match: Rocky's new fame attracts him an agent who sees Rocky as a potential endorsement and sponsorship goldmine and his sudden wealth encourages him to propose to Adrian.

At first, Mickey refuses, worried about Rocky's health, but changes his mind after Apollo publicly insults Rocky on television.

Rocky's opponent is James " Clubber " Lang, played by Mr. T. Lang is a younger and more aggressive boxer than Rocky.

Lang accuses Rocky of intentionally accepting challenges from lesser opponents and after sexually insulting Rocky's wife Adrian ( Talia Shire ), his challenge is accepted.

Rocky's trainer Mickey ( Burgess Meredith ) initially wants no part of it and admits to the champion that Lang was right, he had handpicked Rocky's opponents to protect him and to ensure Rocky remained successful and healthy.

Rocky, Adrian and Paulie ( Burt Young ) return home to find that Paulie had unknowingly signed a ' power of attorney ' over to Balboa's accountant, who had, in turn, squandered all of Rocky's money on bad business deals ( it is also revealed the accountant had not paid Rocky's income taxes in 6 years ).

The sixth film was an attempt to redeem the character for a final chance to come back as a hero again, and do the story justice by bringing it full circle ; as for Rocky's ability to fight again, Stallone suggested that advances in medical science during the period between the films had shown that the injuries mentioned in Rocky V were less debilitating than once thought, and that he would receive a " clean bill of health " today.

" This was the genesis of what would become Rocky and His Friends and later, The Bullwinkle Show, when NBC gave Rocky's sidekick top billing.

* In the 1976 film " Rocky ", Horn and Hardart is mentioned in a scene between Rocky ( Sylvester Stallone ) and Paulie ( Burt Young ) discussing Rocky's plans for Thanksgiving dinner.

Visitors to the museum are often seen mimicking Rocky's famous run up the front steps, now known widely as the " Rocky Steps ".

Bugs then poses as Mugsy, another gangster ( flipping a coin like George Raft ), who threatens that " It's curtains for you, Rocky " as if he is going to execute Rocky, and then pulls an actual set of curtains from inside his jacket and hangs them over Rocky's head (" Aw, they're adorable ", Rocky purrs ).

He founded The Learning Company in 1980, and worked on several educational games there, including Rocky's Boots for the Apple II series computer.

The object of the beginning part of Rocky's Boots is to use a mechanical boot to kick a series of objects ( purple or green squares, diamonds, circles, or crosses ) off a conveyor belt ; each object will score some number of points, possibly negative.

Joseph Warren Robinett, Jr. ( born December 25, 1951 ) is a designer of interactive computer graphics software, notable as the developer of the Atari 2600's Adventure — the first graphical adventure video game — and as a founder of The Learning Company, where he designed Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.

Following Rocky's transfer back to the club, they won the 1999 FA Cup in extra time, and the turnaround was complete in 1999 – 2000, when they won the Premier League title on the last day of the season, their first top-flight title in eight years and their most recent to date.

Fans of the Warner Brother's Cartoons have debated Rocky's ethnic background as either being Italian or Jewish.

An early role, when he was just 17 years of age, is in a short scene in Rocky II, playing a patient who asks for Rocky's autograph on his cast.

Janet runs screaming into Rocky's arms and is slapped and chased through the halls of the castle by a jealous Frank.

Actress Joan Sims died in 2001 and the role of Rocky's wife, Madge Darbley-Hardcastle was not recast ; in Series 8 it's mentioned that she's away participating in an Egyptian archaeological dig.

The PNE Agrodome at Hastings Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, served as the location of Rocky's Soviet bout.

Pip proceeds to quote personal information about Rocky's tastes and hobbies from a notebook.

Meanwhile, fueled by hate mail he has started to receive, Apollo becomes obsessed with the idea that a rematch is the only way to prove that Rocky's performance was simply a fluke.

It is written and directed by and stars Sylvester Stallone as the title character, with Carl Weathers as former boxing rival Apollo Creed, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey, and Talia Shire as Rocky's wife, Adrian.

He attacks even harder walking right into Rocky's trap.

When Adrian attempts to comfort him, Rocky's frustrations finally boil over.

The film ends with a shot of Rocky's statue looking out over Philadelphia.

Rowan Atkinson makes his second appearance, this time as a fully fledged but gaffe-prone priest conducting his first wedding ceremony through his connection as a friend of the family.

While all other candidates from the Rome diocese were ordained in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Pacelli was ordained a priest on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1899 alone in the private chapel of a family friend the Vice-Regent of Rome, Mgr Paolo Cassetta.

Sfondrati was an intimate friend and a great admirer of Philip Neri, an Italian priest who died in 1595 and was canonised in 1622.

He is Kirk's " friend, personal bartender, confidant, counselor, and priest ".

Forman co-starred alongside actor Edward Norton in the actor's directorial debut, Keeping the Faith ( 2000 ), as the wise friend to Norton's conflicted priest.

In August 1913, Woodward, Dawson and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and friend of Dawson who had trained as a paleontologist and geologist, began a systematic search of the spoil heaps specifically to find the missing canines.

He received his first education from a country priest, and had for a fellow pupil his friend and future biographer, Henri Lebret.

Monsignor Ryan ( Cecil Kellaway ), a senior Catholic priest friend of Matt, is also present at dinner and is a voice for tolerance.

* Some see in Zalmoxis a Christ figure who dies and resurrects ; this position was also defended by Jean ( Ioan ) Coman, a professor of patristics and orthodox priest, who was a friend of Eliade and published in Eliade's journal " Zalmoxis ", which appeared in the 1930s.

Rather than the main conflict between Becket and the King revolving around the Constitutions of Clarendon, as is depicted in the play, and as happened in real life, the film's dispute between Becket and Henry II centers on the assassination of an accused priest by the henchmen of Lord Gilbert, a nobleman and friend of King Henry, and Becket's excommunication of Gilbert as a result.

As he showed no desire to become a priest, his father sent him to stay with relatives in Rouen, where a family friend tutored him on naval matters.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village, founded by a French Canadian Roman Catholic priest ( that later converted to Protestantism ) and friend of Abraham Lincoln by the name of Charles Chiniquy, has a total area of, of which, of it is land and 1. 92 % is water.

Actress Sophia Loren, friend and correspondent of Netherlands native Anthony Goossens, priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Llano, contributed to the church fund-raising campaign in 1975.

In some of his other roles during the 1960s and 1970s, Bogarde played opposite renowned stars, yet several of the films were of uneven quality, down to demands or limitations set by the studio or their scripts: The Angel Wore Red ( 1960 ), playing an unfrocked priest who falls in love with cabaret entertainer Ava Gardner during the Spanish Civil War ; Song Without End ( 1960 ), as Hungarian composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt, a flawed film made under the initial direction of Charles Vidor ( who died during shooting ), and completed by Bogarde's friend George Cukor, the actor's only disappointing foray into Hollywood ; the campy The Singer Not the Song ( 1961 ), as a Mexican bandit co-starring John Mills as a priest ; H. M. S.

In 1895, José Turiano Santiago, a close personal friend of Bonifacio, was expelled because a coded message of the Katipunan fell into the hands of a Spanish priest teaching at the University of Santo Tomas.

Since the priest was a friend of Santiago's sister, he and his half-brother Restituto Javier were suspected of betrayal, but the two would remain loyal to the Katipunan and Santiago would even join the Philippine revolutionary forces in the Philippine-American War.

He was ordained priest in 1843, and in the same year became tutor of Lincoln College, where he rapidly made a reputation as a clear and stimulating teacher and as a sympathetic friend of youth.

They include the Armenian priest Pogossian ; his friend Soloviev, Prince Lubovedsky, a Russian prince with metaphysical interests, and a couple of others.

Writing after the events of 1604 – 1606, the Jesuit priest Oswald Tesimond's description of his friend was favourable: " his countenance was exceedingly noble and expressive ... his conversation and manners were peculiarly attractive and imposing, and that by the dignity of his character he exercised an irresistible influence over the minds of those who associated with him.

Alone in a private room, all swore an oath of secrecy on a prayer book, and then in another room celebrated Mass with the Jesuit priest ( and friend to Catesby ) John Gerard.

Even in articulo mortis he refused to receive the sacraments from the parish priest at the cost of submission, but the last offices were performed by his friend Professor Friedrich.

In 1998, Mabus secretly tape recorded conversations he had with his then-wife Julie and a mutual friend ( a priest ) in attempts to resolve marital difficulties.