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

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 wrestled for the promoter " Paul ". In the and early 60', it was Ray Gunkel. I have 'fun' memories of water skiing on some beautiful lake there too...in 1978, I gave my horse to a family there in Athens for their young boy to use for 4-H shows.

NOW......I am looking forward to seeing any of you fans from those days of ' Good Ole Wrestling'. I know you will enjoy the Lipstick n Dynamite Movie..It touches on the reasons us 6 girls became lady wrestlers in the days when it was truly considered only a 'man's sport'..Yes, I guess we were feminist....and just didn't know it. We each loved our profession and all of you fans.....so, come out for the movie ..then the Q & A session afterwards..and bring your camera for some 'photos' with us "Living Legends" of Lady Wrestling.

-Penny Banner

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 every since.

We're so happy to be here, supoporting the movie, and speaking with our fans, and fans of the movie. There's so much hard work that went into making this movie, so y'all reading this better come out and see it!

What I think "Lipstick & Dynamite" does, is let people know that wrestling isn't about just being in the limelight - you have to give your heart and soul to the sport if you want to be known for being a good athlete & performer.

The only thing I ever tried to do was to help other girl wrestlers out - I started my own school and began promoting because I didn't like how Billy Wolfe was handling things. In my school I taught more than wrestling, I also taught life skills, skills that I still use today.

This film illustrates what life is about - joy, pain, dissappointment and triumph. If I hadn't of been beat in the ring, early in my career, I wouldn't have gained the skills and perserverence to have beaten others in the squared circle.

Thank you for coming out and supporting this film. Y'all better write back on this blog, and let me know what you think Darlin'!

- The Fabulous Moolah

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 troupe out of a gym in Columbus Ohio. We know there are still many fans out there in Ohio, so come out and have sneak peak at the film during the festival, before it opens in Ohio later this spring. The film is in competition—so if you like it, give it a high mark!

For ticket info:

http://clevelandfilm.org/films/index.php?films=detail&film_detail_ID=49

Yours,
Ruthless

Just back from the Sarasota Film festival with Lipstick & Dynamite - 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. They even offered to throw actor Dennis Farina (Law and Order) and legendary singer Lainie Kazan in a headlock on the red carpet.

Ella Waldek's daughter Jackie came and saw the film for the first time- she remembers only too well, as a child watching her mother from the stands getting the pulp beaten out of her. Also in attendance were original golden gal wrestler Bonnie (Watson) Schwartz and her husband referee Stu Schwartz.

But one of the best things that comes from these festival screenings, is overhearing blue-haired ladies saying, "I never knew that a story about girl wrestling could be so touching" - Then one turns to the gruff Ella Waldek remembering, " I used to watch you on TV on Dayton Ohio every week... I never knew what happened to you all these years." Which brought tears to Miss Waldek's eyes.

Pictured here: Ella, Bonnie, Ida May on the Sarasota red carpet