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MICKEY ROURKE wants to participate in Wrestlemania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment. It has lots of fighting, but with a posh accent; this may be the first culturally acceptable version of WrestleMania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Gladiator is quite a good movie--a big, fat, rousing, intelligent, daring, retro, many-adjective-requiring entertainment. It has lots of fighting, but with a posh accent; this may be the first culturally acceptable version of WrestleMania. Beyond the spectacle of large men grabbing and stabbing one another, Gladiator offers body halvings, decapitations, unhandings. A pity the slaves must die for the public's sport, and a pleasure that we get to watch. Violence is an issue directors love to deplore and exploit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Empire Strikes Back | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...Beetlejuice is one of a growing number of little people who hire themselves as entertainers (Hank the Drunken Angry Dwarf, Mini-Me and the stars of WrestleMania IIIothe pinnacle of Dwarf Wrestling, in which the notorious Lord Littlebrook, got to face his arch-nemesis Little Beaver, in a match for the ages). Unlike most other dwarves in ithe businessi who entertain us only with their antics and comedy skits, Beetlejuiceis act is this and a hell of a lot more. In short, Beetlejuice gets hired to be tossed...

Author: By Gustavo M. Gonzalez, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Shameless Exploitation or Capitalist Initiative? | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

Maybe the meeting at the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino is not destined to be remembered along with Yalta and Potsdam as one of history's great summits. But back in 1988, at the World Wrestling Federation's Wrestlemania IV in Atlantic City, Donald Trump met Jesse ("the Body") Ventura. The real estate parvenu was impressed by the wrestler's sense of showmanship. The two remained casual acquaintances over the years--they became pen pals and talked about golf. Eleven years later, they find themselves soulmates: each would deny Patrick J. Buchanan the Reform Party's presidential nomination. Trump is eyeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Party, Please | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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