Captain Lou Albano passes away

YourDirtisMyfood
YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
edited October 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
One of the greatest wrestling managers of all-time. RIP, Lou!
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    This is sad....Captain Lou R.I.P., Brother
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  • Bathgate66
    Bathgate66 Posts: 15,813
    Captain Lou Albano Dies, Leaving Behind A Legacy Of Cyndi Lauper Videos
    Posted 21 minutes ago by Kyle Anderson in Music

    Sad news today, as Louis Vincent Albano — known to the entertainment world as Captain Lou Albano — passed away this morning at the age of 76. Albano is best known to people in the professional wrestling world, where he was an integral part of the rise of the WWF in the early 1980s. As both a wrestler and a manager, Albano was a profoundly charismatic man who cut a great promo and had an incredible presence, which allowed him to cross over into other areas of the entertainment world and was one of the reasons that the very first Wrestlemania in 1985 was so successful.

    One of the most important entertainment alliances Albano made was with Cyndi Lauper, who was at her commercial peak when she teamed up with Captain Lou. She appeared on WWF programming leading up to Wrestlemania, and in turn Albano played Lauper's father in a handful of her most famous music videos. In "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," Albano plays the fatherly foil to Lauper's carefree spirit, and she even puts him in a hammer lock in the video. (According to the "Pop-Up Video" version of the clip, the original plan was to dress George "The Animal" Steele up in drag and cast him as Lauper's mother, a role which ended up going to Lauper's actual mother.)
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    no one wore rubber bands as well as he did

    rip cap'n
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,371
    Wow, Cindy Lauper's manager at some time, and my sister's elementary school classmate's uncle.
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  • ACCBootlegGoddess
    ACCBootlegGoddess Posts: 4,318
    One of the most entertaining WWE managers ever!

    RIP Captain Lou!!
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    norm wrote:
    no one wore rubber bands as well as he did

    rip cap'n
    Too bad that rubber band thing never caught on, eh?
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  • NickyNooch
    NickyNooch Posts: 629
    Sad! Captain Lou Albano was awesome.

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  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    http://www.boston.com/ae/music/blog/200 ... n_lou.html
  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    Lou with Greg the Hammer Valentine and Mean Gene Okerlund.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRI2_TySOtA
  • patrickredeyes
    patrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    He was one of my favorites, funny guy.
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    Wow... this makes even me sad... and I hate wrestling - but Captain Lou was a legend. RIP. :(
  • YourDirtisMyfood
    YourDirtisMyfood Boston Posts: 4,668
    The funeral will be at 11am at the St. James the Apostle church in Carmel NY this Saturday.
  • reflectedfromafar
    reflectedfromafar Posts: 235
    tybird wrote:
    norm wrote:
    no one wore rubber bands as well as he did

    rip cap'n
    Too bad that rubber band thing never caught on, eh?

    I wore one in my beard yesterday in honor. The one on my cheek wouldn't stay on.

    RIP
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  • Perry Neum
    Perry Neum Vienna, Austria Posts: 856
    I loved it, when he got upset. Also the tasteful shirts he wore.

    RIP Lou!
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,629
    He will be missed.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    No he was so funny and knew how to rattle up his wrestler's opponent. RIP

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