![]() ![]() ![]() And we’re still friends, I talked to her about a month ago or so. SLUG: So your business relationship kinda ended there?ĬLA: Yea right there. But hey, Girls Wanna Have Fun, I did it and that was it. SLUG: How did you get involved with Cyndi Lauper?ĬLA: She was down in queens when she was a young girl, she was after me many times, “Would you wanna be in Girls Wanna Have Fun?” and so forth and I turned around, and they all thought it was my manager, which it wasn’t. Cyndi Lauper, Girls Wanna Have Fun, so I’ve done a lot of stuff right along and it just fit right in. SLUG: Show business has a tendency to kind of chew you up and spit you out, how do you manage throughout that, how do you stay on top?ĬLA: Well I’ve stayed wrestling for 50 years, 53 years, and in the mean time I did my Super Mario, uh, who wants to be what do you call them… millionaires. SLUG: Alright….did working in wrestling provide good opportunities to break into other areas of the entertainment industry?ĬLA: Yes it did, 50 years in wrestling, I mean it gave a lot of, a lot of chances. SLUG: What did you enjoy more, wrestling or being behind the scenes, managing?ĬLA: Well I enjoyed like, Wiseguys, the movie Wiseguys with Danny DeVito and Joe Piscopo. SLUG: You’ve had a long career in show business, starting most notably in professional wrestling, I caught up with him one Friday morning while he was trying to catch a plane. Super Show, which comes out on a four disc DVD set this March. But if you are a child of the 80s, you probably remember him best as the bumbling Italian-American plumber, Mario, in the 1989 TV series The Super Mario Bros. He had a notable role in Brian DePalma’s Wiseguys, a small appearance in an episode of Miami Vice and can even be seen in Cyndi Lauper’s music video for Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. ![]() So what is the story of the Captain? Is it a fairy tale? A whodunnit? A modernist work with themes of alienation? It’s certainly not a knock-knock joke, but what else could it be? For over 50 years, the Captain has entertained us, starting in the world of professional wrestling as both athlete and manager (he was recently inducted into the WWE hall of fame) and eventually beginning an eclectic yet prolific acting career. Since I don’t have the slightest clue as to what a shaggy dog story is, I’ll have to come up with something else. If I knew what a shaggy dog story was, I would say that the life and career of Captain Lou Albano is one such story. ![]()
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