This story continues to make headlines down here in Australia:

AFTER his tussle with Australian customs officers last month, Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone insisted that the suspicious substance detected in a routine baggage search was not steroids.

Summoned to appear in a Sydney court yesterday on a charge of importing a prohibited import, court documents alleged that Stallone imported 48 vials of human growth hormone.

It was alleged that customs officers found five boxes of the growth hormone when Stallone alighted from Qantas flight QF8 from the United States on February 16. Stallone, 60, was visiting Australia to promote his latest film, Rocky Balboa.

The documents alleged that Stallone ticked the "no" box when asked to declare whether he was bringing in restricted or prohibited goods.

They alleged the active ingredient in the substance, going under the brand name Jintropin, is the human growth hormone Somatropin, which was not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Stallone says that the vials were not growth hormones and that they were a legal substance that he has been taking for years.  However, is anyone really surprised he was taking a growth hormone?  I’m not surprised, look at him in the above picture, he is a 60 year old guy with that kind of body?  When he was younger he probably didn’t need to use a growth hormone but definitely at age 60 he probably needed a little help to keep that kind of body. 

I actually went and watch Stallone’s movie this past weekend.  Rocky Balboa was actually a decent movie and it is what Rocky 5 should have been.  In the movie Rocky is retired in Philadelphia and operating his own Italian restaurant.  Rocky has the urge to start fighting again so he applies for a boxing license to participate in some local fights.  However, a series of events happens that leads to him fighting in a charity match against the much younger, reigning heavyweight boxing champion.  The actor playing the reigning champion is really the weak part of the movie.  He does not look like a heavyweight boxer and really didn’t have a built body like Stallone had for the movie. 

Stallone should have given that guy some of whatever he has been taking because he needed it.  Mike Tyson actually made a cameo in the movie and I thought he would have made a better villain boxer than they guy they had.  Oh well, the movie was still above average and wraps up the various storylines in the Rocky series.  Was it worth the $14 bucks I paid to watch though?  Probably not unless you are a big Rocky fan, but I would definitely recommend renting it when it comes out on video though.