herbiehancock

I felt it only fitting that I wrap up my overlong wrestling theme with films that reflect what professional wrestling eventually would become and still is - the sports entertainment style that they are today. Nothing shows this transformation better than the wrestling movies of the late 1980s! And really the beginning of this change in professional wrestling... Original Title : Body Slam Year : 1986 Director : Hal Needham Writer : Steve Burkow (writer), Shel Lytton (screenplay) IMDb : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092684/ Genre : Comedy, Wrestling Synopsis: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. B...

I've just heard Captain Lou Albano has died this morning in hospice at the age of 76. He wrestled some, but was best known as being a loud mouthed manager. And a damn entertaining one at that. Fans of WWF wrestling in the 1980s surely remember him. You may also remember him from the Cindy Lauper video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdAYDL8CJy8 Or as Mario in the Super Mario Bros Super Show! Check out those moves You'll be missed, Captain.