Sentences with phrase «female professional wrestling»

The movie traces his career through the aforementioned shows, his alter ego Tony Clifton, his foray into male / female professional wrestling where he meets Lynne Marguiles (Courtney Love, The People vs. Larry Flynt, 200 Cigarettes), and his concert at Carnegie Hall, all the way to his death of a rare type of lung cancer, which people thought was a hoax (Kaufman did not smoke).

The fun and forthright «GLOW» (premiering June 23 on Netflix) is a 10 - episode dramedy about the nascent days of televised female professional wrestling, in which a disparate group of underemployed actresses, models, party girls and unwitting introverts are recruited by a greaseball B - movie director to try something that has never been done before.

Based around the true story of the all - female professional wrestling league, Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, which began in the mid»80s, Glow is a neon and spandex romp that feels equal parts sports underdog story as it does a critique on how we continue to define gender roles.

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GLOW, an acronym for «Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling» tells a heavily fictionalized version based on true events of what happens when down - on - his - luck Hollywood director Sam Sylvia (celebrity podcaster and comedian Mark Maron) attempts to cash in on the 1980s professional wrestling craze by creating a Saturday morning wrestling show with an all - femWrestling» tells a heavily fictionalized version based on true events of what happens when down - on - his - luck Hollywood director Sam Sylvia (celebrity podcaster and comedian Mark Maron) attempts to cash in on the 1980s professional wrestling craze by creating a Saturday morning wrestling show with an all - femwrestling craze by creating a Saturday morning wrestling show with an all - femwrestling show with an all - female cast.