Netflix dropped the first season of a new dramedy in 2017 called Glow, which stands for the "gorgeous ladies of wrestling." Both season one and this year's second installment tells the story of struggling actress Ruth (Alison Brie) auditioning for a mid-1980s all-female answer to Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation shows, and hoping for wrestling stardom - but was it a real TV program?
The answer is yes, it was. The original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling ran in syndication from 1986 to 1990, notching 104 episodes in the original run. There was also an attempt to revive the show in 2001, but it ultimately failed to get off the ground.
With the Netflix series, all the characters being portrayed are fictional, though a few do bear some resemblance to the original cast. There's a wrestler named Emily Dole who went by the moniker "Mt. Fiji" who bears a passing resemblance to Machu Picchu...
The answer is yes, it was. The original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling ran in syndication from 1986 to 1990, notching 104 episodes in the original run. There was also an attempt to revive the show in 2001, but it ultimately failed to get off the ground.
With the Netflix series, all the characters being portrayed are fictional, though a few do bear some resemblance to the original cast. There's a wrestler named Emily Dole who went by the moniker "Mt. Fiji" who bears a passing resemblance to Machu Picchu...
- 7/7/2018
- by Andrea Reiher
- Popsugar.com
Though Mariska Hargitay was just three years old when her famous mother, Jayne Mansfield, was killed in a tragic car accident, the 54-year-old actress says the Hollywood icon has always been an inspiring part of her life. "My mother was this amazing, beautiful, glamorous sex symbol — but people didn’t know that she played the violin and had a 160 Iq and had five kids and loved dogs. She was just so ahead of her time. She was an inspiration, she had this appetite for life, and I think I share that with her," Mariska tearfully revealed in a new interview. "Someone once said about [remembering] my mother: 'All you have to do is look in the mirror.' She’s with me still," the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star told People. Jayne was only 34 years old at the time of her 1967 death and because Mariska lost her mother at such a young age,...
- 3/29/2018
- by Julia Birkinbine
- Closer Weekly
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