SYLVESTER STALLONE - STALLONE CRINGES AT FORMER FASHION DISASTER

SYLVESTER STALLONE was so unprepared for his first appearance at the Academy Awards in the late 1970s, he rented a tuxedo and borrowed a tie from his chauffeur minutes before arriving at the ceremony. The 60-year-old, who has returned to the ring as ROCKY BALBOA in the sixth installment of the movie series, won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1977 for ROCKY. He cringes, "I wore a rented tux with a big, frilly shirt, which was open to the second button. And I had a wife-beater on under that, so it was doubly bad. "I was a cornball right off the potato wagon. Even the limo driver to the Oscars venue said to me, 'You better put on a tie for it. Here, you can borrow mine.'"