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Rocky III
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Stu Nahan
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- Brent Musburger is selected for making the fight feel like a nationally important sporting event.
- Frank Stallone and the doo-wop group are nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Rocky’s commercial agent is nominated for slinking away after the advertisement fails. — Bill Simmons
- Stu Nahan is nominated. — Bill Simmons
- Duke is considered, then challenged as ineligible because he is in four films. — Bill Simmons
The Dion Waiters Award for Best Heat Check Performance
Buddy the driver
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Approx. transcript time · 01:22:05Read transcript
- Candidates include Marie, Tony Burton, Joe Spinell, Stu Nahan and Bill Baldwin. — Bill Simmons
- Buddy the driver wins as the definition of the award; his license-plate joke became a repeated family joke. — Bill Simmons
- Burgess Meredith is rejected for having too much screen time. — Bill Simmons
Apex Mountain
Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Survivor, Stu Nahan, and LeRoy Neiman
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- Stallone is moved to First Blood because the two 1982 hits gave him maximum ability to create later films. — Bill Simmons
- Burt Young receives a positive verdict for balancing comedy, menace, and pathos, despite later contenders. — Bill Simmons
- Talia Shire is moved to the first Rocky after The Godfather Part II. — Bill Simmons
- For Mr. T, the verdict is “not till a team.” — Bill Simmons
- Carl Weathers receives a positive verdict because he is in this movie more than in any other Rocky movie. — Bill Simmons
- Hulk Hogan is rejected because later wrestling celebrity surpasses Thunderlips. — Bill Simmons
- The Rocky statue is judged close but still behind the Statue of Liberty. — Bill Simmons
- Survivor receives a positive verdict while its Rocky IV work is also praised. — Bill Simmons
- Stu Nehan receives a yes. — Bill Simmons
- LeRoy Neiman receives a positive verdict because he appears in a scene and his painting closes the film. — Bill Simmons
- Burgess Meredith is moved to the first Rocky or his Penguin role. — Bill Simmons
In the discussion (5)
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- Duke is favored because viewers knew the performer by that character for years.
- Jim Hill is proposed for supplying an authentic Los Angeles sportscaster presence. — Gus Ramsey
- Stu Nahan is recalled from the Rocky films, Spicoli’s dream, and a Globetrotters episode of Gilligan’s Island. — Cousin Sal
- Clubber’s cornerman Eddie Smith had a long career of brief television roles. — Cousin Sal
- Stallone’s wife appears briefly as the groupie who kisses Rocky. — Cousin Sal
What’s Aged the Best?
The score, Thunderlips, Eye of the Tiger, Clubber Lang, Apollo, the pinball machine, Adrian, the supporting announcers, and key Mickey dialogue
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- The recurring fight overture still signals that Rocky’s comeback is beginning.
- Thunderlips holds up because the wrestling is authentic and Hogan performs moves absent from much of his later career. — Bill Simmons
- Eye of the Tiger remains culturally durable and was central to Hogan’s early crowd response. — Bill Simmons
- Clubber Lang remains one of the strongest sports-movie villains because his spare presentation and verbal performance create menace.
- Apollo’s training role is praised as one of Carl Weathers’s fullest performances in the series. — Bill Simmons
- The rare Rocky pinball machine remains desirable and is said to sell for about nine thousand dollars. — Bill Simmons
- The ten selected title-defense opponents have absurdly specific credited names that the panel enjoys reciting. — Bill Simmons
- Clubber’s slow look into the camera became an iconic Mr. T image. — Bill Simmons
- Rocky’s affluent house visually captures how far the family has risen. — Bill Simmons
- Adrian’s appearance and confidence plausibly reflect the family’s new wealth while preserving the gradual change from the first two films.
- Mickey’s warning that Rocky cannot win establishes the template later reused in Rocky IV.
- Bill Baldwin and Stu Nahan are both said to have aged nicely.
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