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Worked as uncredited crowd-control production-assistant in Rocky IV and Over the Top with Sylvester Stallone. In Rocky IV, when Iven Drago (Dolph Lungren) says, "If he dies, he dies," of Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), you can clearly see a very young 16-year old Gabriel Campisi sticking his head over Lungren's shoulder. "They were doing pickup shots, and most of the audience extras had left after a very long day," says Campisi. "They called some of us production assistants to fill in the gap behind Dolph. At 5' 5", I had to literally stand on my tip-toes to peek over his shoulders."

Attended UNLV where he wrote for the campus newspaper (then called "The Yellin' Rebel") for three years. Two of those years he was editor of the Opinion/Editorial Section. It was his job to get people thinking and sending in "Letters to the Editor," so he purposefully wrote controversial editorials. His strategy worked. Not only did the Letters to the Editor spike, he also received over a dozen death threats during his tenure.

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