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Porno Bravo

The Los Angeles Daily News updates us on the porn industry quarantine, going so far as to quote a curiously named porn star:

Dino Bravo, 34, of Studio City said one of his shoots was canceled Thursday because it involved one of the quarantined women. But two others are set for next week. "There's risk in everything," said Bravo. "I put my clothes on in the morning, and could get hit by a truck. I got bills to pay."

Bravo apparently uses the gimmick as a tribute to the ‘80s-era professional wrestler who went by the same name. Known as the “Canadian Strongman” (much the way Manuel Noriega was the “Panamanian Strongman”), Dino Bravo was one of many wrestlers to go by the gimmick “world’s strongest man,” and in his later years strongly resembled Big Pussy from “The Sopranos.”

(I have vivid memories of a WWF show I went to in ’88 or ’89 at the old Met Center in Bloomington, when one heckler screamed out “Dino Bravo, you suck!” and another followed up with “Did you have your steroids today?”)

Anyway, we know that wrestler Dino Bravo and porn Dino Bravo aren’t the same person, because the former was murdered in 1993 by Canadian mobsters. No, he didn’t rat them out to the feds like his lookalike did, but rather had allegedly become involved with illegal cigarette smuggling, and was bumped off when he failed to kick up.

Now, if the porn star’s name had been Val Venis…

Posted by Stephen Silver at April 20, 2004 09:20 PM