SYLVESTER Stallone turned from macho movie star to mild-mannered model citizen when he nearly mowed down a “Rocky” fan in Beverly Hills this week.

Stallone, 62, was driving a “totally pimped, all-black VW Phaeton” Monday afternoon when a man “listening to his iPod started crossing Bedford Street with the light in his favor,” a reliable witness told Page Six.

“The car skidded into the crosswalk, stopping just short of my buddy, who dove to the ground,” our source continued. “When he looked up, he saw a guy wearing a shocked expression, in red leather bomber-type jacket, gripping the wheel with one hand as the other held his cell against his ear.

“Like the hot-headed New Yorker he is, my buddy started yelling, ‘Are you [bleep]ing kidding me?’

“Then he realized it was Sly. He told me, ‘How was I gonna yell at Stallone? I mean, I love the guy since I was a kid. It’d be almost an honor to say Rocky knocked me out at a Beverly Hills crosswalk.’ ”

The muscle-bound action hero “couldn’t have been more of a gentleman. He jumped out immediately to see if my friend was all right. But he couldn’t hear Sly’s concern because he was still wearing his earphones,” our source continued.

“This prompted Sly, with a smile, to twirl his index finger next to his temple to indicate maybe he was crazy to cross deafened by music. My pal immediately pointed at Sly’s cell, still in his hand. They each looked at their devices and then both of them broke out laughing, realizing all parties were guilty as charged.

“Sly extended a hand, pulled my buddy up, and asked, ‘You all right?’ When my friend assured him he was, Sly offered, ‘You sure, you need a ride or anything? Can I give you a lift?’ My friend politely declined. They fist-bumped, then with a smile, Sly showed him he was sticking his cell in his jacket before jumping back into his VW.”

Stallone’s rep, Michelle Bega, had no comment.

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Action veteran SYLVESTER STALLONE is making sure his young daughters do not fall victim to the Hollywood party scene – by teaching them at an early age about the harsh realities of the movie industry. The 61-year-old insists he doesn’t mind if his three daughters – Sophia, 11, Sistene, nine, and Scarlet, five – pursue acting careers, but he has forbidden them from misbehaving in the public eye in a bid to keep them out of the tabloids. He says, “I am good to my girls but it’s tough love because I know it’s a tough world. It terrifies me because I know that their name will make them a target. I’ve seen it so many times. Look at these young celebrities – they get hammered, living under a microscope. “I’ve been saying this since the day they were born – listen to your mother and father. But as they get older and the hormones start to kick in, they might get like, ‘You don’t know everything, Dad!’ And I’ll just say: ‘Oh, yes I do!’ “I can’t stop them going into the entertainment industry, but I can toughen them up.”

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SYLVESTER Stallone, 61, denies to Time magazine he used steroids but admits he took prescription testosterone to bulk up to a freakish 209 pounds to make the new “Rambo.” (He weighed 40 pounds less in the earlier “Rambo” movies.) “HGH [human growth hormone] is nothing. Anyone who calls it a steroid is grossly misinformed,” Stallone says in the issue out tomorrow. “Testosterone to me is so important for a sense of well-being when you get older. Everyone over 40 years old would be wise to investigate it because it increases the quality of your life. Mark my words. In 10 years, it will be over the counter.”

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Sylvester Stallone Donates Memorabilia from “Rambo” at Planet Hollywood in Times Square

JANICE Dickinson came close to crossing paths this past week at the Beverly Hills Hotel with her nemesis and one-time fiancé, Sylvester Stallone.

As we reported Friday, the supermodel, earlier in the week on Greg Gutfield’s Fox News Channel show “Red Eye,” accused Stallone of shooting her up with steroids, as well as himself.

“He juiced me,” Dickinson, star of an Oxygen channel reality show, told Gutfield. “I’d wake up and my arm was as big as Popeye.”
Now, entertainment reporter Nelson Aspen tells he was an eyewitness when Dickinson “charged” into the famed hotel Thursday and discovered that a “Rambo 4″ junket was under way.

“She came in stumbling in her heels, wearing big, dumb sunglasses and a riding outfit,” Aspen relates. “She grabbed a busboy and started yelling, ‘He knows I’m here! He knows I’m here!’ She then quickly disappeared.”

It’s a good thing she and Stallone didn’t meet up. After Stallone called her a desperate liar on this page Friday, Dickinson told us, “Stallone was recently arrested in Japan for growth hormones.”

She raged, “I’m not desperate! I just got off of ‘I’m a Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!’ and have a show in 110 countries.
“If he doesn’t shut his big mouth, I’m going to really tell everybody what he did to me. If he doesn’t retract calling me a liar, I’m going to really talk – and he doesn’t want that, so he’d better make nice . . . tell him I just got out of the jungle, too.”

Dickinson would surely have said more, but her new publicist, Lizzie Grubman, stopped her. As for Stallone, his representative decided to take the high road and decline comment.

The two were engaged for several months in 1993, and Dickinson went into a tailspin when they broke up. When she learned she was pregnant, she fingered Stallone as the father. However, after tests proved that producer Michael Birnbaum was actually the daddy of Dickinson’s daughter, Savannah, the wild model confessed she had sex with five men in one week.

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THE self-proclaimed “world’s first supermodel,” Janice Dickinson, is a publicity hound who will say anything to get attention, according to her former fiancé, Sylvester Stallone.

The star of “Rocky” and “Rambo” is furious because Dickinson, who’s now hosting “The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency” reality show on the Oxygen channel, went on Greg Gutfeld’s Fox News show, “Red Eye,” this week and accused Stallone of doing steroids.

Dickinson told Gutfeld that not only did she see Stallone “juice” up with steroids but that he injected her with them as well.

“He juiced me,” Dickinson said. “I’d wake up and my arm was as big as Popeye – steroids, testosterone, all that stuff that people say [mimicking Stallone voice], ‘Hey, it’s not that good ’cause you get really big, you know what I mean?’ ”

When Gutfeld put in, “So that’s an actual confirmation, though? You did see him juice?” Dickinson coyly shot back, “I did confirm that, didn’t I?”
When informed of the exchange, Stallone’s representative fumed to Page Six, “Janice Dickinson lied about the origin of her child, and she’s lying about this.”

Dickinson and Stallone were briefly engaged in the early 1990s. The brunette found out she was pregnant and told the actor he was the father, but DNA tests proved that producer Michael Birnbaum was the daddy of her baby girl, Savannah. Stallone immediately dumped her.

A pal of Stallone said yesterday, “These are just more desperate lies from a desperate woman.” A rep for Dickinson, the author of “Everything About Me Is Fake and I’m Perfect,” didn’t get back to us.

The lavishly lipped ex-mannequin claims to have coined the term “supermodel” in 1979, but it was actually first used in a 1968 article in Glamour magazine. Dickinson is said to have bedded the likes of Jack Nicholson, Bruce Willis, Mick Jagger and Warren Beatty – as well as Grace Jones and Kelly LeBrock.

Stallone, 61, has been a fitness freak ever since he starred in “Rocky” in 1976. The Philadelphia native looked like a professional bodybuilder in his first “Rambo” movie, “First Blood,” in 1982.

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Sylvester Stallone says he and his “Rambo” sequel movie crew recently witnessed the human toll of unspeakable atrocities while filming along the Myanmar border.

“I witnessed the aftermath – survivors with legs cut off and all kinds of land-mine injuries, maggot-infested wounds and ears cut off,” Stallone told The Associated Press in a phone interview Monday. “We hear about Vietnam and Cambodia and this was more horrific.”

The 61-year-old actor-director returned to the U.S. eight days ago from shooting “John Rambo,” the fourth movie in the action series, on the Salween River separating Thailand and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

Stallone said he was in Thailand for six months, most of it along or on the river.

“This is a hellhole beyond your wildest dreams,” Stallone said. “All the trails are mined. The only way into Burma is up the river.”

This was before the crackdown last week against the largest pro-democracy protests in Myanmar in two decades. After the government increased fuel prices in August, public anger turned to mass protest against 45 years of military dictatorship. Last week, soldiers responded by opening fire with automatic weapons on unarmed demonstrators.

For decades, Myanmar’s army has waged a brutal war against ethnic groups in which soldiers have razed villages, raped women and killed innocent civilians.

The “Rambo” script, written long before the present Myanmar uprising, features boatman John Rambo – the Vietnam War-era Green Beret who specializes in violent rescues and revenge – taking a group of mercenaries up the Salween River in search of missing Christian aid workers in Myanmar. The character “realizes man is just a few paces away from savagery when pushed.”

“I called Soldier of Fortune magazine and they said Burma was the foremost area of human abuse on the planet,” Stallone said.

Shots were fired over the film crew’s head, he said. “We were told we could get seriously hurt if we went on.”

“I was being accused, once again, of using the Third World as a `Rambo’ victim. The Burmese are beautiful people. It’s the military I am portraying as cruel,” he said.

Stallone is now editing “John Rambo,” which will be released in January. He wants the Motion Picture Association of America will give the film an “r” rating.

Actor Sylvester Stallone was formally convicted Monday of importing restricted muscle-building hormones into Australia and ordered to pay $10,651 in fines and court costs.

New South Wales state Deputy Chief Magistrate Paul Cloran said the “Rocky” and “Rambo” star failed to show he had a valid prescription for dozens of vials of human growth hormone found in his luggage when he arrived in Sydney for a promotional tour in February.

Stallone had also failed to declare the male hormone testosterone on a customs entry form, although prosecutors said he had legitimate medical reasons for carrying the drug.

Cloran fined Stallone, who was not present in court and had previously pleaded guilty, a total of $2,451 on both charges and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of $8,200.

Calls to Stallone’s publicist were not immediately returned.

The magistrate said that because of the negative publicity surrounding the case, the penalty was enough to send a clear message that such behavior would not be tolerated.

“I don’t think there is anything further the court could or should do in order to deter Mr. Stallone from committing these offenses again,” Cloran said.

He said he was satisfied the human growth hormone and testosterone were for Stallone’s personal use, and that “there is no suggestion that the substances were being used for anything other than cosmetic or therapeutic purposes.”

Stallone was charged after a customs search of his luggage at the start of a three-day visit to Sydney in February revealed 48 vials of the human growth hormone drug, Jintropin.

The actor told customs officers he had purchased the drugs at a Los Angeles pharmacy, but did not have the prescription with him.

Three days later, Stallone threw four vials of the male hormone testosterone from his Sydney hotel room when customs officials arrived to search it.

Cloran said Jintropin is not legally available for sale in the United States, and found that Stallone had been “untruthful about the existence of a prescription.”

However, citing testimony from Stallone’s Beverly Hills-based doctor, Robert Huizenga, Cloran found that Stallone had been using the testosterone legally under medical supervision, although he had failed to declare it to customs officials.

In a letter to the court in which he apologized for a “terrible mistake,” Stallone, 60, said he had taken the drugs for years to treat a medical condition that he didn’t disclose.

In an interview with customs officials after the growth hormone was discovered in his bags, Stallone said he was carrying such a large amount of the drug because he was about to go on location in Thailand and Myanmar – formerly known as Burma – for three months to shoot the latest installment of the “Rambo” series.

“As you get older, the pituitary gland slows and you feel older, your bones narrow. This stuff gives your body a boost and you feel and look good,” court documents quoted him as saying. “Doing ‘Rambo’ is hard work … Where do you think I am going to get this stuff in Burma?”

Human growth hormone is a naturally occuring substance produced by the pituitary gland. It can be replicated synthetically and is often used to build muscle mass.

It is considered a performance-enhancing drug in Australia and cannot be imported without a permit.

The maximum penalty for bringing Jintropin into Australia without a license is a fine of $91,500 and five years in prison.

But Stallone faced a maximum penalty of $18,000 on each of the two charges and no prison time because the matter was heard in a local, not federal, court.

A senior official with the Australian Customs Service, Robert Janeczko, welcomed the decision.

“I think it’s a good outcome. The two criminal convictions show that whether your name is Smith or Stallone you can’t bring prohibited imports into this country,” he said.

Stallone’s lawyers did not comment on the decision.