It's been thirty years since Rocky won the Best Picture Oscar. And now Sylvester Stallone is out this holiday season with what he calls the final installment of the Rocky epic, Rocky Balboa. As do a lot of people, I list Rocky near the top of my all-time favorite sports flicks. In every era of filmmaking, insider buzz has it that women will not take an interest in sports stories. But to take Rocky as box office proof against that theory, this is not fundamentally a boxing story. It is 1976, post-Vietnam, and the soul of the film embraces the American credo, that even a poor puhlooka from Philly can reach for, and touch, the highest star...
