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Russo and Ferrara attempted to make the same " Crash TV " style on WCW Monday Nitro which was similar to Raw, only at an accelerated pace, including edgier storylines, more lengthy non-wrestling segments, constant heel / face turns, an increased amount of sexuality on the show, fake retirements, more backstage vignettes, expanded storyline depth, title changes, and the utilization of midcard talent in a more effective manner.
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Former WWF writers Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara were also hired to fix the company but may have increased the gap between the two Monday night programs.
On October 5, 1999, Russo and Ed Ferrara signed with WCW ; Russo contends that his reason for leaving the WWF was the result of a dispute with Vince McMahon over the increased workload that he ( as well as Ferrara ) was facing, with the introduction of the new SmackDown!
Russo and Ferrara often focused on poking fun at the WWF.
Russo has contended that the idea was created not by him, but by Ferrara, who had shared legitimate animosity with Jim Ross backstage during his WWF tenure.
At the September 2009 TNA No Surrender pay-per-view, Ed Ferrara joined TNA and began working on the creative team with Vince Russo and junior contributor Matt Conway.
In 2010, when asked about his relationship with Russo at TNA, Hogan said he came to TNA in peace, that the writing staff of Russo, Ed Ferrara, Matt Conway, and Jeremy Borash have really " stepped it up ", and that Hogan loved Russo " from a distance ".
He's also stated that he wished to inflict bodily harm on Russo due to his involvement in a WCW angle with Ed Ferrara in which they mocked WWE commentator and good friend Jim Ross ' Bell's Palsy condition.
Cornette stated that he is open to returning to TNA in the future, but simply can't support the creative team of Russo and Ferrara.
In 2000, after the demotion of Ed Ferrara and Vince Russo ( and subsequent departure of the latter ), the resulting chaos led to Sullivan's promotion to head booker.
Edward Ferrara ( born November 22, 1966 ) is a professional wrestling storyline writer, most notably for the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, often alongside Vince Russo.
Ferrara and Russo began their stint there in October 1999, and they placed themselves upon the onscreen product of WCW.
The character was considered by most as distasteful and nothing more than a means for Russo and Ferrara to put their own grievances on the air.
This, along with the decision to put the title on Tank Abbott, cost both Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara their creative independence and led to the hierarchy at WCW to form a booking committee which consisted of former bookers including Kevin Sullivan, Kevin Nash, J. J. Dillon and Bob Mould.
This would also mark the beginning of the end for the friendship between Russo and Ferrara who both took opposing positions.
Russo refused to work in the booking committee as he felt he was jobbed out by the backstage politics of the company whilst Ferrara decided he would stay on as he had just relocated his entire family to Atlanta and so felt compelled to continue his work as a writer.
This would be the last time Russo and Ferrara would willingly work with one another in a wrestling environment, until being reunited in TNA years later ( see below ).
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On February 23, 2005, Spadafora was sentenced to 21 to 60 months in prison for the attempted murder of Nadine Russo.
Bischoff would be brought back to WCW and attempted to team with Russo to fix the ills of Nitro and WCW.
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After seeing a drug transaction take place in a bar, Russo goes in to make an arrest and the suspect makes a break for it.
According to Clay Shaw's defense team, witnesses, including Perry Russo, claimed to have been bribed and threatened with perjury and contempt of court charges by Garrison in order to make his case against Shaw.
With WCW eclipsing the WWF, McMahon called upon Russo to make changes to the televised product.
Prior to the pay-per-view, Bischoff, Hogan and Russo discussed how the ending should play out and decided to make their situation as real as possible.
Michael's rivals, chiefly Louie Russo, the mob boss of Chicago, hope to exploit this rumor of Fredo's bisexuality to make Michael look weak.
Like Russo, Francesa got the attention of Imus when he made an on-the-air bet with Francesa that Seton Hall University's basketball team would not make the Final Four in the NCAA tournament.
Russo is known to make bold statements when hosting the show solo but will back down when Francesa is co-hosting.
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" Russo goes so far as to suggest that Whale's homosexuality is expressed in both Frankenstein and Bride as " a vision both films had of the monster as an antisocial figure in the same way that gay people were ' things ' that should not have happened ".
The same year Day of the Dead premiered, Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo released a film titled Return of the Living Dead that offers an alternate continuity to the original film than Dawn of the Dead, but acted more as a parody or satire and is not considered a sequel to the original 1968 film.
Since the departure of Russo, the band has used many replacements on tour such as members from The Virus, Strike Anywhere, and F-Minus, however, recently, on their MySpace page, The Unseen have included a fifth band member, Jonny, an ex-guitarist of A Global Threat who was in the band at the same time as Civitarese.
At the same time, he announced that he and Russo were planning to get married
Moreover, in several public interviews, such as one shown in the video The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes, Russo reiterates the same account of a party at Ferrie's apartment that he gave at the trial.
Additionally Russo has stated ( in the RF Shoot Video series ) that the desire to seek a new challenge ( by going to WCW ), as well as his own personal interest in whether or not he would be able to repeat the same successes without the guidance of Vince McMahon, were also strong contributing factors to his move.
From one of the same authors, Russo was also prominently featured on the cover of The Death of WCW, a book that notes Russo's contributions to what is believed to have ended WCW.
Vince McMahon eventually introduced Russo to the creative team, which consisted of Michael Hayes, Paul Heyman and in Russo's words, " children, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, while looking scared to death at the same time.
The ninth and final Russo – Turkish war started in 1877, the same year the Ottomans withdrew from the Conference of Constantinople.
The same thing happened to Melissa Duck who in now-aired The Looney Tunes Show has got the name of Tina Russo Duck.
The same year, Russo released a solo album in English, The Stonewall Celebration Concert.
On the same evening, Triple X joined Sports Entertainment Xtreme, a large villainous faction headed by Vince Russo.
Both Kaloogian and Russo continued on with Move America Forward in essentially the same roles as in the Recall Gray Davis Committee.
It was based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the same name which was written by Richard Russo.
The film is based on the 1981 ( revised 1987 ) book of the same name written by Vito Russo, and on previous lecture and film clip presentations given in person by Russo 1972 – 82.
Romero went on to direct five additional Dead films focusing on society as the living dead begins to evolve, while Russo branched off into literary territory, writing Return of the Living Dead, which was later loosely adapted into a film of the same name and have its own franchise, and Escape of the Living Dead.
The film, starring Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo and Denis Leary, is a remake of the 1968 film of the same name.
At the same time, while Russo left WFAN, Francesa signed a five-year deal to stay at WFAN and continue to host the afternoon drive-time show called Mike'd Up: Francesa on the FAN.
In the same interview with Raissman, Russo did not rule out a reunion with Francesa.
Meanwhile, as Russo continued his version of the same contest on his Sirius / XM channel " Maddog Radio ", where contestants must also answer four Super Bowl questions of increasing difficulty, in hopes of winning a trip to the big game.
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