(08/17/06) L&D Available via Netflix - Hey L&D Fans! Lipstick & Dynamite is available to rent via Netflix, not to mention through some local libraries!! Hope you're having a great summer! Connie...

(07/11/05) Gladys could sure use some cheering up... - Hello Everyone... We just got a message from Claire, Gladys' daughter.... "Gladys took a bad fall last week.� We thought she had broken her hip but it was her leg.� She has been in a great deal of pain.� They...

(05/12/05) Georgia on my mind... - G~E~O~R~G~I~A~ ~ ~ yes, Atlanta, you are on my mind..! Won't be long now til May 13th when " Lipstick n Dynamite" our Movie opens there..Ella and I are looking forward to meeting you. Back in the mid 50s I...

(04/08/05) They don't call me Fabulous for nothing... - My my...it is so great to be here in sunny Los Angeles, California! Being here brings back so many memories. The Great Mae Young & I got here last Friday for Wrestlemania, and have been enjoying ourselves in this weather...

(04/08/05) From Sand Springs, OK, to Los Angeles... - It's great to be back in LA, my old stomping ground, and where I won the US Championship belt at the Olympic Auditorium! I'm looking forward to the film opening in Los Angeles, and am glad that Moolah & I...

(03/21/05) Thank you... - Thanks to all the fans that hung in there during the early years with the girls. You stayed true to us, not knowing how hard the girls worked to entertain all of you. I promised myself to live clean and...

(03/21/05) Thank you Ruth... - In honoring strong independent women we gladly welcome Ruth Leitman to the club. You paid youre dues. your heart and soul. You too can sit back in your rocker one day and say I did something preety special once. Thats...

(03/20/05) I tell it like it is... - Spring has sprung and I wake up everyday, glad to be alive and kicking! I love to work in my greenhouse everyday, and go fishing all the time. Two years ago I was taken by air ambulance for emergency heart...

(03/18/05) New York, New York! - NEW YORK, NEW YORK! Here we come - The Ladies of "Lipstick & Dynamite" (retired) Fightin'  Female Lady Wrestlers!!! I'm Penny Banner, the one  called the " St. Louie Woman."  When I entered this career, I'd never so much as...

(03/17/05) From the desk of Ms. Ida... - Whatta you mean "blue haired ladies" When people tell me I love your hair color: I ask them "which color do you like the best?: The auburn, the gray the black or the brown or the white? Yes, Sarasota was...

(03/10/05) Hello Ohio... - Hello Ohio.... Just wanted to send you a little reminder that LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE plays next weekend 3/18 & 3/19 at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Our 6 ladies in the film worked under promoter Billy Wolfe who ran his...

(03/07/05) Ida grabs Ruth in a headlock at the Miami Film Festival -

(03/07/05) The world of indie film grabs the wrestling world in a full nelson - Hey out there to all you wrestling fans... I just wanted to say... thanks for signing up for the site and keeping up with the ladies all these years! We are less than 3 weeks away from the film opening in NYC and this is what we do in the indie film world- we we tell everyone we know about it so that they can come on out opening weekend...

(02/11/05) DV vs. Film debate - I teach filmmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago - where we always have the film vs DV discourse, especially in documentary. I use both, but I am a film lover. One thing that I am struck...

(02/09/05) Sarasota Film Festival - Just back from the Sarasota Film festival-where wrestlers Ella Waldek and Ida May Martinez came to receive their fans. In a place where 40 is young, the girls (now in their 70's and 80's) were in their element.

(02/08/05) The Story of the Film - Before Hulk Hogan, The Rock, and the stars of Vince McMahon’s WWE took pro wrestling to new heights in American culture, pro wrestling was a small, relatively disorganized network of small time promoters, con-men, and over-the-top characters who brought their...