told the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\u201cThis outcome reflects our shared commitment to listen deeply to the community and doing what is best for both the art and the people who cherish it,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
Sly Stallone and his daughter at the Rocky Balboa statue atop the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum in 1982. AP<\/p>\n
The steps outside the Philadelphia Art Museum became part of the franchise after the 1976 Oscar winning debut.<\/p>\n
The original \u201cRocky\u201d flick was a surprise low-budget Academy Award winner in 1976, launching a lucrative and popular six-movie franchise for Stallone. <\/p>\n
Despite the statue\u2019s popularity among movie buffs, art purists questioned whether the statue belonged outside a museum with a slew of art treasures by many of the great masters.<\/p>\n
Some sports purists have also pushed instead for a statue of real-life Philly boxing icon Joe Frazier.<\/p>\n
The bronze Rocky has been moved several times, with metal footprints left to mark where it once stood \u2014 although it has returned on a few occasions, including for the movie \u201cMannequin\u201d in 1987 and for the Tom Hanks hit, \u201cPhiladelphia\u201d in 1993.<\/p>\n
The statue also made an appearance at the spot for 1990\u2019s \u201cRocky V.\u201d<\/p>\n
The steps outside the Philadelphia Art Museum, the ocasional home of Rocky Balboa\u2019s iconic 8-foot-6 statue. Samuel B. \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
At a meeting last week, Creative Philadelphia\u2019s board voted 3-1 with two abstentions to temporarily put Balboa back on top, and is expected to be part of an exhibit titled \u201cRising Up: Rocky and the Making of Monuments,\u201d which is due to run from April to August, the Inquirer said. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, two other cast copies of the statue were created over the years \u2014 but it\u2019s the original Rocky that has caused such a stir in the Pennsylvania city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocky Balboa is back on top. Philadelphia\u2019s art board has voted to return the iconic statue of Sylvester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11480,449,458,459,64,63,192164,460,134,5136,106057,29305,3780],"class_list":{"0":"post-348256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-classic-movies","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-entertainment","17":"tag-philadelphia","18":"tag-rocky","19":"tag-sylvester-stallone","20":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}