Talia Shire: No Longer the Kid Sister
Judy Klemesrud Nov. 22, 1976 - The New York Times For years, Talia Shire's main claim to fame in movie, circles was that she was Francis Ford Coppola's sister. Even the Academy Award nomination she got in 1975 for playing the part of Connie Corleone, Al Pacino's headstrong, sluttish sister in Mr. Coppola's “The Godfather, Part II,” didn't help erase from some minds the notion that she was just a big director's little sister. Those days are probably gone. The reason is “Rocky, a John Avildsen film that opened here yesterday about an aging, down‐and‐out boxer (played by Sylvester Stallone) who almost becomes world champion. Miss Shire is so convincing as Adrian; the hero's Painfully shy girlfriend, that from now on she will be thought of in terms of her talent, rather than her brother. “I've even thought about changing my name back to Copppla,” the sloeeyed, 29‐year‐old actress said the other day insuite her brother owns in the Sherry‐Netherland Hotel. “I ...