Shot of Testosterone: Mickey Rourke Tattoos Sylvester Stallone

Former movie wrestler has designs on former movie boxer in the forthcoming film The Expendables.

First Showing writes: "Rourke is the 'arms dealer and part-time tattooist' named Tool who is inking Barney Ross, the character Stallone plays, with the skull and raven tattoo seen on the poster. So he's an arm dealer, that must mean we might see more of him when he arms up everyone at other times in the movie."

Foursome: Dolce, Gabbana, Jesus Luz, and Sylvester Stallone

From the Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan via Made in Brazil. Click to enlarge.

More backstage photos at Design Scene.

Stallone at 62: Ripped and Ready to Roll

This is reportedly a new photo of Sylvester Stallone, who is showing off his veins for a movie called The Expendables. The movie's reportedly about a mercenary who takes out a South American dictator in the fictional country of Corza. Sly will direct and star alongside Jet Li, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and Randy Couture.

Wonder if his double is making the film with him?

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High and Low Culture Battle it Out in SF MUNI Station

On the left, an official piece of key art for the upcoming Sylvester Stallone sequel in San Francisco's Church Street MUNI Station, and a lesson in phonetics from a street artist via the 19th century French gay poet.

(/film via Defamer)

Ravaged Serbian Village Unveils Monument to Rocky Balboa

Ravaged by floods, landslides, unemployment, murder, and diseases on farms in recent years, the village of Zitiste, north of Belgrade in Serbia, has gained a "disaster-prone" reputation, according to the Associated Press.

So locals came up with the idea of creating something that might both attract tourists and stand as a symbol of strength, courage, and victory — a good luck symbol, if you will.

The solution: a 9 ft. monument to Rocky Balboa. And on Sunday, they had the unveiling:

Sly: Rambo's Back with a Youthful, Ripped Musculature

Sylvester Stallone, 60, has been shooting the latest Rambo sequel in the jungles of Thailand.

"Stallone threw himself into his new project shortly after being charged with importing a banned bodybuilding drug in Australia. The actor and his entourage of minders were stopped last month at Sydney airport en route to the Australian premiere of his sixth Rocky movie when a routine X-ray of the party's baggage revealed 48 vials of Jintropin, a so-called miracle drug."

Actually, there's a second miracle at work here. The actor has been using more than steroids to summon back his youthful strength. He has hired a hot body double 30 years his junior (above, right) to do the dirty work. Hmm, perhaps double deserves his own sequel?

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