27-575: [REDACTED] Look up head-hunter , head hunter , headhunter , or headhunters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Headhunter or head hunter may refer to: Headhunting , hunting a human and collecting the severed head after killing them Executive search , informally called headhunting, a specialized recruitment service Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Film and television [ edit ] Headhunter (film) ,
54-474: A Harley-Davidson outlet. Cimber cast new actresses to play the wrestlers. They wrestled approximately eight matches per live event. The show itself differed from Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in that the venture held live events only for the purpose of taping television programming, versus running live shows in various city locations each week. They had actual television seasons consisting of 26 episodes that were each rerun once to complete
81-582: A 1984 novel by Michael Slade Headhunters ( Hodejegerne ), a 2008 novel by Jo Nesbø Music [ edit ] The Headhunters , a jazz fusion band founded by Herbie Hancock Head Hunters , a 1973 album by Herbie Hancock Headhunter (album) , by Krokus, 1983, and its title track "Headhunter" The Head Hunters , a 1969 album by Chico Hamilton, and the title track "Head Hunters" "Headhunter" (song) , by Front 242, 1988 "Head Hunter" (song) , by Dance Gavin Dance, 2019 "Headhunters",
108-485: A 2009 Danish thriller Headhunters (film) , a 2011 Norwegian film Head Hunters (game show) , a British TV show from 2019 "Headhunters" ( Gravity Falls ) , an episode of the animated TV series The Head Hunter (1982 film) , a Hong Kong action film The Head Hunter (2018 film) , an American fantasy horror film Literature [ edit ] Headhunter (novel) , by Timothy Findley, 1993 Headhunters (novel) , by John Kin, 1997 Headhunter ,
135-643: A baseball pitcher who aims at a player's head The Headhunters (professional wrestling) , a professional wrestling tag team of Headhunter A and Headhunter B Chelsea Headhunters , a British football hooligan firm Mississippi Headhunters , formerly Columbus Wardogs, an American arena football team See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing head hunter All pages with titles beginning with Headhunter All pages with titles containing Headhunter Hunter (disambiguation) Head (disambiguation) The Kentucky Headhunters , an American country rock band Headhunters of
162-549: A lot like Howard Cosell ). Steve Blance was the senior referee in Season 2 before becoming GLOW's " commissioner " in Seasons 3 and 4. He was the regular recipient of a GLOW Girl beatdown in Season 2. Johnny Cafarella (as "Johnny C.") was the ring announcer for Seasons 3 and 4, was the figurehead owner (buying David McLane's "interest" in a storyline) and also served as company manager after the departure of McLane in 1987. Each of
189-529: A record label People [ edit ] Jade Jones (taekwondo) (born 1993), British taekwondo fighter nicknamed "The Headhunter" Headhunter, three character wrestlers from the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Headhunter, a former performing name of electronic music artist Addison Groove (Tony Williams, born 1942) Headhunterz (Willem Rebergen, born 1985), Dutch DJ and music producer Sports [ edit ] Headhunter (baseball) ,
216-797: A song by 808 State from the 1988 album Newbuild Other uses in arts and entertainment [ edit ] Headhunter (DC Comics) , a fictional character Headhunter (video game) , 2001 Headhunter Redemption , the 2003 sequel Z-95 Headhunter , a class of starfighter in Star Wars Businesses, organizations and groups [ edit ] Head Hunters Motorcycle Club , in New Zealand 80th Fighter Squadron , USAF, nicknamed Headhunters 9th Cavalry Regiment (United States) , formerly known as Headhunters in Vietnam Headhunter Records ,
243-462: Is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television . Colorful characters, strong women, and over-the-top comedy sketches were integral to the series' success. Most of the performers were actresses, models, dancers or stunt women hoping to enter show business. David B. McLane created
270-620: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages head-hunter Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.237 via cp1104 cp1104, Varnish XID 210018726 Upstream caches: cp1104 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:50:26 GMT Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W. )
297-789: The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival , and has since been featured in New York Magazine , LA Weekly , RogerEbert.com , VICE, /Film, The Village Voice , and Mental Floss magazine. It won the Best Documentary award at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival, and Audience Choice Best Documentary at Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Alabama. GLOW is a TV series that premiered on Netflix in 2017. A scripted comedy drama , it tells
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#1732780226387324-609: The Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip . Riklis arranged for the Riviera Hotel to host GLOW. Holender's firm was in charge of distribution (in a joint venture with a New York City based syndicator, MG/Perin) and McLane headed the venture. Matt Cimber , who had recently directed the movie Butterfly , starring Riklis' then wife Pia Zadora , was brought in to provide creative services and direct
351-542: The Coral Sea , a 1940 book by Ion Idriess Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Headhunter . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Headhunter&oldid=1248447775 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
378-592: The GLOW performers had their own rap song (personalized lyrics using the same backing track). It was shown on videotape prior to that wrestler's match. Similar to other wrestling promotions' use of wrestler-specific entrance themes , this gimmick may have been influenced by the Chicago Bears ' " Super Bowl Shuffle ". The music for the rap was written by Hank Donig, who did the music for the first two seasons supervised by Morris I. Diamond. Music for Seasons 3 and 4
405-478: The Riviera on Saturday afternoons with a casino crowd. McLane and the majority of the original cast left the company in a dispute over the domination of low brow, blue , Hee Haw style comedy Cimber had infused into the show. McLane's new promotion became Powerful Women of Wrestling . Seasons 3 and 4 were filmed at a former warehouse building approximately three miles east of the Riviera hotel which would later be
432-457: The company's history including McLane's return as host. McLane later created Women of Wrestling , also directed by Hecker and syndicated to TV stations by MG/Perin, in 2000. McLane performed as the ring announcer and host for Seasons 1 and 2. McLane's announcing voice was replaced in Season 2 to add more comedy feel to the episodes, using Miles Headlock (a computer generated knock-off of Max Headroom ), and "Motormouth" Mike Morgan (who sounded
459-711: The documentary GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling . It premiered on April 27, 2012, at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and won the Best Documentary award at the San Diego Comic-Con Film Festival. In 2017 after a few years of working with writers Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch , GLOW – a scripted comedy-drama series based on the actual wrestling promotion –
486-470: The new women. According to David McLane , the first actress hired was Jeanne Basone (who was working as a phlebotomist at the time) as the character Hollywood. Basone also appeared in Playboy , part of a pictorial titled Lethal Women. She went on to do stunt work and started her own wrestling production company Hollywould Productions . The show was introduced at the 1986 NATPE Convention. Following
513-426: The series as "Pepper". McLane partnered with the television distribution company Independent Network Incorporated (INI), headed by former Lorimar-Telepictures executive Irv Holender. Holender's previous credits included producing Gumby , which was revived about the same time. It was through Holender that McLane met Meshulam Riklis , chairman of Rapid-American Corporation, a conglomerate which included ownership of
540-696: The series while working as an announcer and promoter with Indianapolis-based World Wrestling Association (WWA) after seeing fans react to women's wrestling. The show runner Dick the Bruiser believed that Indianapolis audiences would not be receptive to a wrestling promotion featuring female wrestlers and dismissed the concept as an unprofitable novelty. Undeterred, McLane went to Hollywood and posted casting notices in The Hollywood Reporter and Variety , leading to over 500 women showing up for auditions at The Hyatt on Sunset. The first audition
567-572: The shows. A number of the original dozen wrestlers moved to Las Vegas and were supplemented by local women, many of whom had been actresses and showroom dancers . Lauri Thompson, a Las Vegas attorney and lead dancer in the Folies Bergère at the Tropicana , played Susie Spirit. Thompson recruited others, creating a recruiting chain of other friends and dancers. One of those, Lorilyn Palmer, who played Colonel Ninotchka, took over training
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#1732780226387594-689: The successful initial sale to 30 major television markets in the US and six other countries, McLane brought in Jackie Stallone , mother of Sylvester Stallone , to play kayfabe GLOW owner and the manager of the Good Girls . Kitty Burke as Aunt Kitty, was the manager for the Bad Girls . Stallone had been promoting a physical fitness gym for women only. The syndicated GLOW TV show was produced for four seasons (1986–1990). Seasons 1 and 2 were shot at
621-404: The year, with a total of 104 episodes produced and aired. As Cimber focused on producing, Andrew Hecker directed later episodes. A fifth season was being shot when the show went off the air in financial turmoil. Hecker directed an initial revival attempt in 1991, which became the pay per view special, GLOW: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling: Canvas Carnage , which included clips from every performer in
648-762: Was a sold-out 2003 live event at the El Rey Theatre in Hollywood California. Followed by a DirecTV pay-per-view produced by Ursula Hayden and Johnny Cafarella, Glow's ring announcer season 3 and 4. In April 2012, GLOW returned to Las Vegas for a show that reunited former GLOW participants Hollywood ( Jeanne Basone ), Babe the Farmer's Daughter, Gremlina, Lightning, Thunder Bolt, Melody Trouble Vixen, Ashley Cartier, Godiva, Daisy, and Corporal Kelly. The show also featured new GLOW wrestlers, including Sara Deathray and VH1 . Then later in 2012 she appeared in
675-544: Was at Gold's Gym , and the dozen finalists selected trained for six weeks at the Broadway Boxing Gym at 108th and Broadway in the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts . McLane hired professional Mexican wrestler Mando Guerrero to train them and later brought in wrestling veteran Cynthia Peretti (professionally known as Princess Jasmine) to take over from Guerrero. Peretti also wrestled in
702-461: Was created by Brian Bogle and Ed Ryba under the name "Music out the Yang". Hecker gave each performer personalized Digital video effects including 3D effects and personalized logos, with Ann DeVilbiss as graphic designer. The GLOW company was owned and operated since 2001 by Ursula Hayden , who portrayed Babe the Farmer's Daughter, Princess of Darkness, and Donna Matrix. Her first venture with GLOW
729-469: Was picked up by Netflix . Hayden served as a series consultant for the show. until its cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Hayden died on December 3, 2022. A documentary film, GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling , was released in 2012. The film was directed by Brett Whitcomb and written by Bradford Thomason. It features the music of ESG . The film premiered to positive reviews at
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