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Stallone in `Acquiring Mood' at Miami Art Basel as Stars Swarm

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Sylvester Stallone and wife Jennifer Flavin at Art Basel Miami Beach.

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As burlesque acrobats twirled on poles and champagne flowed in the palm-lined courtyard of a 1930s Miami mansion, actor Sylvester Stallone was focused on Art Basel Miami Beach fair.

“I can’t wait,” Stallone, a collector, artist and co-star of “Creed,” the latest edition of his “Rocky” movies, said Tuesday at a party on the eve of the opening preview. “I’ll be in a very acquiring mood.”