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SYLVESTER STALLONE, 72. The Rambo star was nominated at the 1977 Oscars in both acting and screenwriting categories for Rocky and the boxing movie became the first sports film to win Best Picture. Stallone wrote the entire first draft of the script in three days after watching a Muhammad Ali fight. GERALDINE JAMES, 68. The Bafta winner from Maidenhead starred in The Jewel In The Crown, Band Of Gold and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. She also played the upper-class mother who still breastfeeds her grown-up son (David Walliams’s character) in a series of Little Britain sketches. ‘It’s great for the old CV,’ she said. ‘When I go to heaven I can say, “Tick — I’ve done Chekhov, done Shakespeare, done a few movies and done Little Britain.”’