Written by Christopher Benedict “Whatever you do,” Nancy Thompson famously warns her boyfriend Glen in A Nightmare on Elm Street, “don’t fall asleep.” Playing opposite a then-unknown Johnny Depp in the franchise’s original slasher flick, Heather Langenkamp portrayed Nancy Thompson, ultimately going toe-to-toe with the Christmas-sweater-wearing Elm Street boogeyman in three movies while becoming one of
Written by: Christopher Benedict The advent of talkies in the late 1920s not only irreversibly altered the landscape of motion pictures, but impacted several other major aspects of the entertainment industry. For example, by the time most theaters nationwide were wired for sound in 1930, vaudevillians who had performed at many of these same venues
Written by: Christopher Benedict Theresa Kibby was looking to turn things around after having her formerly flawless record tarnished twice over by roller derby sensation turned professional pugilist Diane Syverson. After first dueling to a four-round draw with the skating ‘Slugger Queen’ from Canada, Princess Red Star lost a disputed decision in their rematch three
Written by Christopher Benedict Born April 18, 1939 in East Oklahoma and residing in the mining town of Virginia City, Nevada in the summer of 1975, Caroline Svendsen had already lived a pretty full life. A child bride at thirteen, Svendsen was divorced two times and counting. She was a mother to a pair of
Christopher Benedict is a writer, historian, and longtime advocate for women’s boxing who lives in Huntington, New York. Beginning with a sit down interview and feature-length story on Heather “The Heat” Hardy in 2015, his boxing writings have appeared on the Ringside Report, True School Boxing, The Grueling Truth, and Women’s Fight News websites, as
Written by: Christopher Benedict Email: cwbene@gmail.com Theresa Kibby was looking to turn things around after having her formerly flawless record tarnished twice over by roller derby sensation turned professional pugilist Diane Syverson. After first dueling to a four-round draw with the skating ‘Slugger Queen’ from Canada, Princess Red Star lost a disputed decision in their
Written by: Christopher Benedict For prizefighting ladies of the 1970s, the matches they contested against one another were only half the battle. Before ever stepping foot inside the squared circle, women were first required to make an appeal to obtain a boxing license within the often unwelcoming confines of an athletic commission office or, in
Written by Christopher Benedict In a few days’ time, Kim Maybee would be making her professional boxing debut. More than that, she would be making history as a participant in the first ever female fight in California. If she was at all nervous, the casual demeanor of this gregarious eighteen-year-old Cal State freshman in a
Written By Christopher Benedict “I like to fight,” exclaimed Hattie Stewart, whose portrait graced a full page of the November 11, 1887 edition of the Police Gazette. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Stewart left little room for doubt from an early age that it was not her lot in life to be a wallflower or