Review: Sweet Daddy Siki documentary ‘relevant and important’
Invariably, wrestling biographies mix drama, old school hype and oddball minutiae and on this...
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Tag: John Dolin
Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 6
Once we started shooting, our travel schedule loosely followed the same path as the Dog’s...
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Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 5
Pre-production seemed to go on forever. I needed archival footage of the Dog but it was in short...
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Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 4
After six months of searching, I’d assembled a very colourful roster of wrestlers willing to...
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Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 3
The next several months were hit and miss. Sweet Daddy Siki, then a local disc jockey who lived...
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Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 2
Remembering a Where Are They Now? article published by the Toronto Star in 1983 which I’d...
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Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories
It’s been a year since Mad Dog Vachon died, and SLAM! Wrestling asked Toronto filmmaker John...
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Tex McKenzie dies
The giant Tex McKenzie, a star wrestler from the ’50s to the ’70s, died today in a...
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My dinner with Mad Dog and Butcher
Mad Dog Vachon has a belief that you shouldn’t drink anything while you are eating. No...
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‘Wrestling With The Past’ returns
The press release for Wrestling With The Past, the upcoming six-part series on The Comedy Network,...
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