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. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    Dynamite perfectly describes this riveting documentary.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    An entertaining look at a genuinely offbeat subject.
  3. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    75
    The film dwells more on the sensationalistic aspects than the sport itself but it's impossible to deny the tawdry entertainment value in this compelling film tabloid.
  4. 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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