Author: JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling

Review: Sweet Daddy Siki documentary ‘relevant and important’

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Jun 11, 2017 | Documentary Reviews

Invariably, wrestling biographies mix drama, old school hype and oddball minutiae and on this...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 6

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Once we started shooting, our travel schedule loosely followed the same path as the Dog’s...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 5

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Pre-production seemed to go on forever. I needed archival footage of the Dog but it was in short...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 4

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

After six months of searching, I’d assembled a very colourful roster of wrestlers willing to...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 3

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

The next several months were hit and miss. Sweet Daddy Siki, then a local disc jockey who lived...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 2

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Remembering a Where Are They Now? article published by the Toronto Star in 1983 which I’d...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

It’s been a year since Mad Dog Vachon died, and SLAM! Wrestling asked Toronto filmmaker John...

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