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...Carr asked his buddy Johnny Ferraro, a one-time Elvis impersonator and a relentless promoter, to help him turn the games into a charity benefit to raise money for a local youth center. When 3,000 people showed up for the event, Ferraro recognized the mass-appeal potential and took the idea to Hollywood. "This was real-life Rocky," he says. It took five years and scores of rejections before the Goldwyn company finally agreed to develop a television series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real-Life Davids vs. Goliaths | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...pilot was a disaster. Actors were recruited to play the gladiators and were directed to adopt fake personalities. The costumes were tacky, and the overall style was uncomfortably close to the campiness of pro wrestling. "It was a schlock job," says Ferraro. "Out of a diamond, they gave you a piece of coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real-Life Davids vs. Goliaths | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

Behind the scenes, a delighted Ferraro has trimmed his sideburns and got out of the Elvis business so that he can devote all his energy to Gladiators. "Danny and me have invented the nuclear bomb," he says. "And now it's exploding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real-Life Davids vs. Goliaths | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...common room. And along the opposite wall is a kitchen area--complete with the "kegerator," an item passed down from 10-Man group to 10-Man group. No one knows exactly how old it is or how long it's been passed down, but it has a Mondale-Ferraro bumper sticker...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Cult Rooms | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

...knows exactly how old the kegerator is... ...but it has a Mondale-Ferraro bumper sticker on it. dream about, that you aspire to. "Actually, it was one of the rooms we saw first when we were freshmen and we were looking," Wong says. At the time, he says, they never thought they...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Cult Rooms | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

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