peak," he says. "This was during the Depression. Hell,
everybody looked up to a wrestler then. Today, they wouldn't care if you
walked down the street and did a handstand. They'd look at you and say,
'He's a fruit or something.' But in those days it was an honor to be a
wrestler
because 
wherever you went they would sell out the
arenas. We walk down the street or stroll into a hotel and we're top
banana. Just like the rock singers of today--biggest cars, tailor made
suits, best looking dames, top hotels. "Today you have to be some kind of
freak. In the old days it was no frills. Oh sure, sometimes we'd put a
little spin on things.
For
example, if I was wrestling you, and you were a favorite, if you got a
hold on me, like an armlock, rather than go down with it I would put my
foot on the ropes. That would make them boo me. And then they'd start
yelling, 'He's yella!' So I might throw an elbow smash into your
heart."
an acrobat and dancer. She
had the female lead in a few Sennett features. Unlike Mushy, Mazurki is a
grizzly who goes off early at the mention of his first wife--but then
Jean had given Mushy's Irishness substance through conversion. His son is
the Catholic priest who taught Ilene Segalove video at Loyola
University.
reporters
got a knack that way. We were married, but I kept traveling a lot, and
while I was away she threw parties all the time. She was a boozer.
Deserted the kids when they were ten, twelve years old. 
When I finally got a divorce, the kids
said, 'Dad, you're gonna marry Sylvia and we're gonna give you away.'
Syl's helped raise them since they were little. We went up to Las Vegas
and sure enough, they gave me away ."
