MOVIES - June 3, 1988

Stallone’s other alter ego, Rocky, has apparently had enough of Russians, and, after disposing of Mr. T and the formidable Dolph Lundgren, will return to the mean streets of Philadelphia in “Rocky V.” Stallone told US magazine that the latest incarnation of the Italian Stallion will inherit his old coach Mickey’s gym and become an instructor himself. Rocky “becomes the guiding force behind a younger man who has just come out of prison,” but the man turns out to be “everything (Rocky) detests in the world,” Stallone said of his new story line. “I’m trying to (say), if you create a bad situation, it is your responsibility to cleanse it.”