Cauliflower Alley Club, 3rd column
We’ve gone over some of the good and bad (and low lives) from last week in Vegas. Here I’m focusing on the many positives there.
Results from the 2013 Cauliflower Alley Club Casino
Royale wrestling show promoted by Vendetta Pro Wrestling (booker/owner/wrestler Billy Blade) and including the promotions of Gold Rush Pro Wrestling (ref Sparky Ballard’s Northern California group using primarily top APW stars), All Pro Wrestling, and Traditional Championship Wrestling (promoter/owner/wrestler Matt Riviera) from last Monday, 4/15/13 at The Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The primary lure of CAC each year is in seeing old friends and brothers/sisters one may only have email contact with the rest of the year. Not the politics behind the scenes certainly. We’re all still trying to figure out what this year grossed. Say approx 400 people paying $125 each which is a pretty sizeable chunk of change and one fan coming all the way from New Zealand.
Hell of Shame
The outrage against this faux, non-physical “hall of fame” continues to grow by the hour. Yes, the growing ridiculousness of this monster.
Watch the famous/hilarious courtroom scene in Bananas, Woody Allen’s 1971 masterpiece of schtick and bits. ”Your Honor, it’s a sham of a sham or a sham. And People shouldn’t waste a second on it.”
Review of last year’s GLOW documentary that’s now showing on LOGO cable channel (and major thanks to Karen for both discovering that and alerting us)
By Mike Lano (not so much a review as a history of GLOW on my end… all I can say is I loved this docu and you will too. You still have time to catch a replay.)
When GLOW was on the tube and I think in a syndication package with the Pedicino vehicle Pro Wrestling This Week starting around ’86, I of course wasn’t a fan of it (GLOW, not PWTW which was awesome). For any who know me, most of us at the time were and remain grumpy old wrestling purists. We knew after one look that these women were probably quickly trained (I thought not just by Mando but also to a certain extent by Sue Sexton too but maybe I’m wrong) and it sorta showed. But, to a casual or non-Wrestling-fan, who’d know other than some blown spots and green-ity? For the most part, they couldn’t really work like any of Moolah’s trainees through no fault of their own, and as the documentary shows, most were actresses responding to a tv casting call. One that turned into history and longtime friendships and great memories for them. But as an intended parody of wrestling, it was fun and of course we loved the Dave McLane character sort of mocking on and in a low budget way, Vince Jr’s character at the same time in The Whiff.
Just had The Great One back on the radio show a few months ago and as always, it was a great learning experience with bits of major minutia he recalled as if it was yesterday. No one knew their biz history the way Bill always did. Total student of the industry.
*The B.S. thing and I mean the Hall of Fame legend, not, well… the other connotation of that.
“We put smiles on faces” just in a bullying faux climate… “Like No Business I Know”(trademark) Newsletter….
– Dr. Mike Lano
Lano’s “Like No Business I Know” or “Not Necessarily The News”
So calculating and obvious to anyone save the general public. The product, as pro wrestling has to be, is about dominance, revenge, bullying and a lot of negative shit. That’s just wrestling and as always, stating the obvious.
Not Necessarily The News minicolumn only, as still bummed about the Niners losing
– Dr. Mike Lano
Cena Lip Herpes?, Bully Ray Crest White Strips, Psy a WWE fan
I guess the make-up person couldn’t hide that swinging big boy last night during his promo…
