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I’ve never seen Rocky

An underdog fighter wins hearts and respect then gets punched below the belt by the jingoism of Reagans America Ill tell you in one word why I have never watched Rocky: Ronald Reagan. Sure, the film came out in 1976, before he reached the White House, likewise Rocky II. But he was US president in 1982, when Rocky III appeared, my poster of him and Margaret Thatcher in a Gone with the Wind embrace with an atom bomb and another Stallone double-punch of Rocky IV and armed with the weapon…

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