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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/o...ales-dies.html Pedro Morales, a Hall of Fame professional wrestler who in the 1970s and ’80s became the first to win all three of what were then wrestling’s premier championships, died on Monday in Perth Amboy, N.J. He was 76.
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Pedro Morales wrestled in the era when 95 percent of the people in the arenas were "marks." In wrestling terminology, "marks" thought wrestling was real, but "smarts" knew it was fake. It was crazy back then, because fans sometimes attacked and injured wrestlers.
As champion of what was then called the WWWF, Morales drew huge and heavily Puerto Rican crowds in the Northeast. But the company had to take the championship away from him because the villains who wrestled him were in too much danger from the fans.Comment
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Yeah, as a kid (in the early 80s) I believed the kayfabe 100%. Mind you, at the time WWF was specifically denying it was fixed and tried to control their wrestlers breaking fabe even off camera.Originally posted by Trey Strain View Post
I think my grandfather (who got me into it) believed it like 50%. He probably "knew" it was staged, but wanted to believe that the rivalries were real or that things could get out of hand more than they really did. I remember he knew someone who was friends with Sgt. Slaughter and that guy told him it's mostly fake but sometimes they get really mad and really whack someone with a chair. My grandfather lived by that half-truth for years.
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Wow. Didn't realize he was still alive before that. He was long-lived in more ways than one.
He was a workhorse.Originally posted by Tazer View Post
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Blackjack Mulligan, Ole Anderson and Roddy Piper were actually stabbed by fans. That's how crazy it was.Originally posted by Space Cop View Post
Jim Cornette told a hilarious story about how he and the Midnight Express got pulled over for a traffic violation in a small town in Louisiana by a cop who thought wrestling was real. Jim and his men were despised villains who had recently won a televised match by knocking out an opponent with a handkerchief supposedly soaked in ether.
The cop took them to the police station where he and the police chief subjected them to some very hostile questioning. The chief asked them, "What did you knock that boy out with?' And Dennis Condrey replied defiantly, "We did it with ether!"
Cornette said he thought they were goners then, but the cops finally let them go.Comment
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https://www.archynewsy.com/the-actor...-ganz-is-dead/
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz (Der Himmel über Berlin, The House that Jack Built) passed away. You most likely know him from Der Untergang, where he played Hitler. One of his scenes ("Nein, nein, nein!!") went viral ten years ago, with various fake subtitles.
He was 77.
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I've seen several of his films. Wish I owned a copy of Wings of Desire, that's the one I'd watch in tribute. It's a beautiful film.Originally posted by Michael Heide View Post
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https://www.tatler.com/gallery/lee-radziwill-style?djk It has just been announced that Lee Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy, died in New York last night at the age of 85. Reports suggest that she remained both present and elegant in her final weeks, despite suffering age-related illnesses in the past.
Radziwill leaves behind a daughter, Christina, from her second marriage, to the Polish aristocrat Prince Stanislaw Albrecht Radziwill – who she divorced in 1974. Radziwill will be remembered for her style and allure. Mathilde Favier, public relations director at Christian Dior and great friend to Radziwill (who was witness at her wedding), described her as, 'always ahead of her time because she was a fashion visionary.' She concluded, 'it's very sad. It's the end of an era.'Comment
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/enter...217-story.html before you read the words written below about the life and times and accomplishments of a man named Ken Nordine, who died Saturday at his North Side home at the age of 98, it would be a good idea for you to listen to whatever you can find at www.wordjazz.com.
What you will discover is the one-and-only voice of Ken Nordine, one of the few people in the history of radio to use the medium to its fullest potential, rather than as a forum for blather, confrontation, inanities and noisy nonsense. He made a kind of vocal music as the voice of thousands of commercials and as the force behind a new art form he created and called “word jazz.”Comment
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https://patch.com/california/sherman...tm_content=aolLongtime KNBC-TV Channel 4 consumer reporter David Horowitz has died at age 81, his wife told the station Monday.
Horowitz was best known for his appearances on KNBC's newscasts and Emmy-winning TV program "Fight Back! With David Horowitz" that investigated defective products, advertised claims and confronted companies with customer complaints.Comment
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http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...wcombe-dead-92 -Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitching great Don Newcombe has died after a lengthy illness, the team announced Tuesday. He was 92.
"Don Newcombe's presence and life established him as a role model for major leaguers across the country," Dodgers president Stan Kasten said in a statement. "He was a constant presence at Dodger Stadium and players always gravitated toward him for his endless advice and friendship. The Dodgers meant everything to him and we are all fortunate he was a part of our lives."Comment
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Yep. One of the actually talented musicians in the group. RIP.Originally posted by Trey Strain View Post
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Micky and Davy were good singers on several hit records, so all four of them did contribute to the songs.
The key to their success was that the show's producers assembled a powerhouse group of songwriters, which included Neil Diamond, Carole King, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, besides Mike Nesmith. Also, John Stewart (not the Green Lantern) wrote Daydream Believer.Comment
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Agreed, but only Tork was allowed to actually play on the first two albums (admittedly in a limited capacity).Originally posted by Trey Strain View Post
I don't even mean to bad mouth the Monkees. They were good at what they did as long as we're not putting them in the same category as master singer-songwriters. They were a cross-media experiment that worked and they ended up not only making some catchy pop songs ("I'm a Believer"), but some decently good ones ("Daydream Believer," "Pleasant Valley Sunday"). I have some of them on 45.Last edited by Space Cop; 02-22-2019, 02:01 AM.
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