Captain Lou Albano, RIP

When Captain Lou Albano entered the ranks of professional wrestlers in 1953 their “sport” ranked somewhere above pornography and below football betting cards in cultural respectability. When he departed more than three decades later, professional wrestling was a global phenomenon attracting viewers on closed-circuit TV pay per views, MTV, and Saturday morning cartoons.

Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan had something to do with this. So too did the overlooked Captain Lou Albano, who, along with Cyndi Lauper–a live-action cartoon character as unusual as Albano–launched the pop-culture non sequitur ”Rock and Wrestling Connection” that strangely catapulted rather than killed the careers of its participants. (more…)

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Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 2:32 pm in Celebrity News | 24753019 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/10/18/captain-lou-albano-rip/Captain+Lou+Albano%2C+RIP2009-10-18+21%3A32%3A32Daniel+J.+Flynn