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Lipstick & Dynamite, Piss & Vinegar: The First Ladies of Wrestling
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  • Summary: This documentary shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. (Ruthless Films)

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    An entertaining look at a genuinely offbeat subject.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    60
    This visually stylish work, with its vintage glamour photos, film and television clips, and snippets from a 1951 B-movie, "Racket Girls," is more of a scrapbook than a coherent history of the sport during its rough-and-tumble infancy.

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  1. JimG.
    6
    Leitman has drawn out, mostly in the unspoken moments, a wonderful story of contrast: paths chosen and unchosen, modesty and arrogance, school learning and school of hard knocks. In many ways these women inhabit a world of their own but their story says a lot about the world around them. What fun.… Expand
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