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The official announcement from Paul Heyman that he'll be working on a comic book series for Jeff Katz' American Original is at this link.
The New York Times featured a piece on the excellent Mildred Burke biography "Queen of the Ring" by Jeffrey Leen today at this link. Good to see such a quality piece of work getting attention.
Online now for PWInsider.com Elite subscribers is a 70 minute interview with WWE Hall of Famer Jimmy Hart discusses his favorite Memphis Wrestling memories, crossing Jackie Fargo, Jerry Lawler vs. Jerry Jarrett creatively, maintaining continuity when some Memphis towns were behind a week on TV, the original plan for the Hulk Hogan vs. Lawler Memphis Wrestling event, the creation of the Kamala gimmick, Memphis stars he felt could have been huge national names, Austin Idol, working with Lance Russell, the NWA Legends convention and its Memphis reunion, the status of the Wrestlicious women's promotion, what it takes to write great wrestling theme music, his favorite songs that he's written, his all-time favorite moments in the business, a recent trip to the Middle East, a lawsuit he may have to file shortly over music, a wrestling concert tour he is putting together with a ton of former WWF 80s names, the WWE Hall of Fame, Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, the type of reality series he would have liked it to have been, whether he ever really got any flack from WWE for appearing, whether there will be more XWF DVDs, whether he thinks we'll see Hulk Hogan wrestling again, how he'd like to see Hogan used, the originally planned WWF gimmick for Shane Douglas in the 1990s that never came to be, booking WCW Saturday Night in the midst of all the WCW turmoil, bad business deals made by WCW execs, his love for the wrestling business and much, much more. For more information on subscribing to the Elite section and getting access to all our special features via an ad-free website, visit http://www.pwinsider.com/elitenav.php.
For those of you in New York City, The Film Forum (www.filmforum.org) in Manhattan will be hosting a rare screening of the 1950 professional wrestling film "Night and The City" the weekend of 8/15. The film tells the story of Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark), a two-bit hustler who dreams of the good life provided by money. He's tried a lot of go-nowhere schemes but he has what he believes is a chance of a lifetime. He plans to take control of the professional wrestling game from promoter and underworld boss Kristo (Herbert Lom) by manipulating him through his father, the retired wrestling superstar Gregorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko, yes that one).
