Sentences with phrase «female wrestling show»

Not exact matches

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.

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).

Before she showed Pop paintings at the Whitney and the Guggenheim; before her madcap plays were performed at the Judson Poets» Theater and La MaMa; before she traveled the female wrestling circuit as Rosa Carlo, the Mexican Spitfire — before all that, Rosalyn Drexler was Rosalind Bronznick, a Jewish girl from the Bronx with a wimple of sprayed hair.