NAMES IN THE NEWS : Philly Mayor Asks Stallone to Call; Disc Jockey Responds
Former Mayor Frank Rizzo wanted Sylvester Stallone on his radio show, so an on-air phone call seemed the next best thing to interviewing the “Rocky” star in person.
It also turned out to be the next best thing to actually talking with Stallone, because the caller was an impostor.
“He really sounded like Stallone,” Rizzo said of Dennis Malloy, WSNI-FM disc jockey.
Rizzo, whose program is on WCAU-AM, had reason to expect a call from Stallone because the mayor had seen the actor at dinner and asked him to go on the program.
On Friday, two days later, the mayor got the call but from Malloy. Rizzo spent six minutes asking him about “Rocky V,” which is being filmed in Philadelphia.
Asked about the call later, Malloy said: “It was a quiet afternoon. . . . I’d lost my street hockey ball. . . . It was too cold to play golf. . . . Nobody was using the phone.”
Rizzo wasn’t bothered by the hoax. “I enjoyed it,” he said.
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