Rocky Steps

This guide to the Rocky Steps in Philadelphia starts with a raw-egg breakfast and a jog through a gray dawn, then turns to how Sylvester Stallone's crew found these seventy-two stone steps outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art almost by accident while shooting his 1976 script on almost no budget. You'll hear why Stallone dropped a plan to have Rocky haul his real bull mastiff, Butkus, up the stairs, and how the crew mounted one of the first Steadicams ever used in a major film to follow him running. Count the steps yourself as you climb: seven at the top, then five sections of thirteen below.