] Young women raise a glass of Pike""s Pale to him, smile engagingly and flutter their eyelids, look enticely at him, pass his table with swinging hips, drop their handkerchiefs, or try o socially engage him in conversation.Yet it is also a remendously significant and powerful work of art (and example of movie propaganda), with extraordinary effects and brilliantly-filmed sequences.Meanwhile, Apollo Creed was swimming in his L.A.mansion""s pool with his playful dogs, while listening to a TV broadcast about "a landmark in sports history" - the arrival of the heavyweight world amateur champion Captain Drago and the announcement by his wife that the Soviet Union had officially entered professional boxing, with Drago""s intention to compete as an international sportsman.She refuses o leave her Hollywood past behind:Look at them in the front offices - the masterminds! They took the idols and smashed them.He proposed taking his vacation time, in California, and in the next scene was driving around ritzy Beverly Hills taking in the sights in his dilapidated "crappy blue Chevy Nova," to he tune of "Stir It Up" (by Patti LaBelle).