Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Before hitting it big in "Rocky", what job did Sylvester Stallone have in New York City?"
...Very few people are born famous, which means that even celebrities were once regular people who had to pay the bills with normal jobs. In the late 1960s when he was still a struggling actor in New York, the future Rocky star took a job cleaning lion cages at the Central Park Zoo for a reported $1.12 an hour. Ironically, it all came full circle when he performed the voice of Joe the Lion in the 2011 comedy Zookeeper. On this day in 1976, the film Rocky, made its debut and would ultimately make Sylvester Stallone one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.