In ‘Rocky,’ Andy Karl Trained Hard for the Title Role

NYTimes.com: Massive sides of fake beef were being suspended from hooks onstage as workers zigzagged purposefully through the controlled chaos that was the Winter Garden Theater the other day. Somewhere in the middle of it all, taking a minute before a group stretch-and-limber session, was the man whose character’s name was already on the marquee outside and whose left eye was still black and blue from a poorly timed encounter with another actor’s glove a week or two earlier.