Kim Page Talks About Eric Bischoff, The Gold Club, Posing For Playboy, Her Career And More
Die Jar Jar Binks Die!
CAREER AND MORE
by James Walsh @ 9:42:00 AM on 5/11/2005
Show: The Interactive Interview (Courtesy of www.WrestlingEpicenter.com)
Guest: Kimberly Page
Date: May 10, 2005
Your Hosts: Erik Clancy, Chuck D, & James Walsh
Recap By: James Walsh
She's one of the sexiest female performers of all time. She's one of the
first women of wrestling to bare it all in the pages of Playboy. And, she
was the captain of the famed WCW Nitro Girls. She is Kimberly Page. And,
she's the latest guest on The Interactive Interview!
Available for download is an archived version of Tuesday night's TII Live
featuring a 40 minute interview with Kimberly as she discusses her Hollywood
career, her relationship with DDP, the rise and fall of the Nitro Girls, her
answer to the rumors about Eric Bischoff and the Gold Club, and all the
funny stories you can shake a stick at.
Also on this show, a definitive RAW recap, SmackDown discussion, and a long
chat about the upcoming ECW pay per view and why it may or may not be
successful.
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Kimberly Page:
-- Chuck opens up the interview by saying it's a pleasure to speak with
Kimberly. Kimberly thanks James and Chuck for having her on the show as
James makes an inside joke about it being an honor speaking with her. Laughs
all around!
-- Chuck mentions that when he called her yesterday, Kimberly was putting on
some Alicia Keys. Chuck asks if that is indicative of the music Kimberly
likes. Kimberly says she likes all kinds of music but considers herself,
above all else, an 80's Diva. As such, she likes a lot of 80's pop and rock.
James almost wets himself as the two briefly discuss some classic hair metal
such as Ratt, Tesla, The Scorpions, Dokken, Poison, etc, etc.
-- Since WCW closed, Kimberly has moved to California to be near Hollywood
in order to pursue her acting career.
-- Kimberly will have a part in a movie called The 40 Year Old Virgin that
will be out in late summer. But, she has a big role in an independent film
called Monarch of the Moon where she plays the lead villain.
-- She's listed as doing stunts on her filmography but she is not a stunt
worker. She's very proud of the fact that she will do stunts as long as
she's doing her own stunts. In other words, she doesn't have a body double
and she herself isn't a body double.
-- Kimberly has small parts in the famed movies Rat Race and Seabiscuit. In
Rat Race, she plays herself or a version of herself as the wrestling
character of Diamond Dallas Page's wife. In Seabiscuit, she plays a bar
wench (her words) that serves a shot to someone out of her "ample bosom."
This floors James and Chuck. Two men in their 20's immediately get mental
images when things like that are discussed!
-- Kimberly says acting is a marathon and not a sprint and she is going to
fill her resume with independent films.
-- Kimberly loved working for Richard Lowry who directed the film Monarch of
the Moon. She says the movie is different and a lot of fun. It's a spoof on
the 1940's serials like Flash Gordon. Her costumes are so creative that you
may or may not even realize it is her playing the lead villain.
-- Kimberly only learned to wrestle to a point. "At that stage, I thought I
spent enough time in emergency rooms with my husband," said Kimberly. She
mentions that she only did a few spots and even those spots there was a
potential to get hurt. And, a few times she did get hurt. So, acting really
appealed to her more than wrestling. She does do her own stunts in acting
but she won't do them unless she is 100% trusting of the stunt coordinator.
-- Kimberly was a fan of wrestling back in the late 80's and early 90's when
Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Elizabeth were the big thing. She remembers
watching the pay per view event where Randy and Elizabeth got married
(Summerslam 1991) and first of all having her mother look at her like she
was crazy for watching it and second of all thinking how beautiful Elizabeth
was. She goes on to say how she and Elizabeth stayed close up until when she
(Kimberly) moved to California. She misses Elizabeth greatly.
-- Kimberly was attending graduate school when she met DDP. She was trying
her best to get her masters in marketing. When she did, she hated it. DDP in
turn was trying to make it in wrestling. After doing a little modeling, she
was brought in to wrestling to do some valet work. It was 2 years into her
work as a valet until she actually got a contract from WCW. She says she
went on to be under WCW contract for 8 years and feels it was a wonderful
way for her to be where she wanted to be, in front of the camera instead of
behind it.
-- "We all make our own choices. She made her own choices and they turned
out to be her demise. It breaks my heart to this day. But, ultimately we're
all responsible for the choices we make. It's really sad. To this day, I
feel that Lex has enough burden on his shoulders without worrying about bad
energy from other people. He loved her a lot. I can't fault him."
-- Kimberly laughs when we mention the Dave "Evad" Sullivan love triangle.
James professes his love of the "Evad" character. Kimberly enjoyed it
tremendously but feels they pulled the plug on it a bit quickly without
letting it progress or climax the way it should've. She also says Dave is a
wonderful guy.
-- We mention that Ed Leslie AKA The Booty Man AKA Brutus "The Barber"
Beefcake AKA Zodiac AKA The Butcher AKA The Man Without a Name AKA The
Disciple AKA Brute Force AKA Brother Bruti bashed Diamond Dallas Page and
Eric Bischoff for "holding him down." Kimberly seems surprised that Ed had
heat towards them because she enjoyed working with him. "He was a nice guy.
And, he had a beautiful bike," says Kim.
-- Kimberly seems to not want to take credit for the amount of WWE stars
using Playboy for publicity these days. Kimberly mentions that Madusa posed
for it before she did.
-- Kimberly mentions that Eric Bischoff's wife is actually in Playboy this
month in the "Not So Desperate Housewives" edition.
-- Eric Bischoff went to DDP and Kimberly's house one day and discussed ways
to incorporate women into the WCW product. After a brainstorming session,
the idea for the Nitro Girls came to be. Kimberly headed up the Nitro Girls
and liked it because there was all different types of girls in the group.
-- "He killed the Nitro Girls," says Kimberly about Vince Russo. James
mentions how they tried to have them wrestle and they simply weren't
wrestlers. Kimberly agrees. They also discuss how they were marketable with
the video released as well as the Nitro Girls calendar and so forth. But,
she feels Russo wanted to go in a more "old school" direction with no
dancing girls and after that, the only time you saw the Nitro Girls was
maybe for a few seconds once a week if that.
-- Kimberly was on her way out of the group at that time anyway because
running the group and trying to keep up with her home life and such became a
strain.
-- The reason the angle between she and Page in 2000 never really finished
was due to a lot of circumstances. One of them was that they wanted her to
do things she wasn't willing to do. Another reason was she simply wanted to
do acting and was sort of out of wrestling at this point.
-- Kimberly is so proud of DDP. "I love him more than ever." She goes on to
talk about Yoga and how Page felt about it before he tried it. She also says
he is sitting on a million dollar idea with the book and video "Yoga For
Regular Guys" which takes the work out that is Yoga and removes a lot of the
aspects of it that turns men and some of Western culture off to it. James
discusses his passion for Tai Chi and Chi Kung but how he dislikes the crazy
names like "Monkey Sits on Rock" and such. Kimberly says that and a lot of
the feminine things that detract men from Yoga are taken out and replaced
with masculine aspects making Yoga exactly what the book and video title
should indicate, "For Regular Guys."
-- James seems to not want to ask the next question but realizes it must be
asked. He asks about the Gold Club rumors that surround her, DDP, and Eric
Bischoff. Kimberly seems unaware of what James is asking which is fair
enough. Kimberly then does tell a great story about Eric when he insisted on
petting her cat. This cat is not particularly friendly but Eric insisted on
petting it. Eventually, he got scratched by the cat and it ticked him off.
Eric screamed that he was going to throw the cat into the wall. Kimberly
then kicked him out of the house. A few hours later, it dawned on her that
she just kicked her and her husband's boss out of their house. She says to
this day, Eric still kids her about that day.
-- Kimberly mentions that Monarch of the Moon should get a great deal of
national and international releases and says to check out
www.KimberlyPage.com to keep up on that as well as all the other projects
Kimberly's up to including new photo shoots, newsletters, and more. Do check
it out. It's a great site!
-- Kimberly will once again be a part of Wrestle Reunion this summer. Check
out www.WrestleReunion.com. She says it is unlike any fan convention because
you have huge name superstars going one on one with the fans.
-- We then roll into a few word associations with names like Eric Bischoff,
Hulk Hogan, Fyre, Spice, Whisper, Randy Savage, DDP, and more!
-- All of this and so much more can be heard from the beautiful Kimberly's
mouth by clicking the link. This is a 40 minute interview! You're bound to
hear a lot more than what the text would indicate!
-- The show rounds off with an ECW discussion including James' memories of
ECW and what made it great as well as why the One Night Stand pay per view
will either be a raging success or a pathetic failure. The show wraps up
with "Wild" Mick Brown belting out Crazy Mary Goes Round on Dokken's 1999
release titled Erase the Slate. Pick it up!
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Lord Hatred
"Die Jar Jar Binks Die!" <revengeo...@starwars.com> wrote:
> -- Chuck mentions that when he called her yesterday, Kimberly was putting on
> some Alicia Keys. Chuck asks if that is indicative of the music Kimberly
> likes. Kimberly says she likes all kinds of music but considers herself,
> above all else, an 80's Diva. As such, she likes a lot of 80's pop and rock.
> James almost wets himself as the two briefly discuss some classic hair metal
> such as Ratt, Tesla, The Scorpions, Dokken, Poison, etc, etc.
>
I can totally see that.
> -- Kimberly will have a part in a movie called The 40 Year Old Virgin that
> will be out in late summer. But, she has a big role in an independent film
> called Monarch of the Moon where she plays the lead villain.
Which RSPWite is this about?
> -- Kimberly was a fan of wrestling back in the late 80's and early 90's when
> Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Elizabeth were the big thing. She remembers
> watching the pay per view event where Randy and Elizabeth got married
> (Summerslam 1991) and first of all having her mother look at her like she
> was crazy for watching it and second of all thinking how beautiful Elizabeth
> was. She goes on to say how she and Elizabeth stayed close up until when she
> (Kimberly) moved to California. She misses Elizabeth greatly.
>
> -- Kimberly was attending graduate school when she met DDP. She was trying
> her best to get her masters in marketing. When she did, she hated it. DDP in
> turn was trying to make it in wrestling. After doing a little modeling, she
> was brought in to wrestling to do some valet work. It was 2 years into her
> work as a valet until she actually got a contract from WCW. She says she
> went on to be under WCW contract for 8 years and feels it was a wonderful
> way for her to be where she wanted to be, in front of the camera instead of
> behind it.
>
> -- "We all make our own choices. She made her own choices and they turned
> out to be her demise. It breaks my heart to this day. But, ultimately we're
> all responsible for the choices we make. It's really sad. To this day, I
> feel that Lex has enough burden on his shoulders without worrying about bad
> energy from other people. He loved her a lot. I can't fault him."
>
Nice editing people. Sheesh.
> -- Kimberly seems to not want to take credit for the amount of WWE stars
> using Playboy for publicity these days. Kimberly mentions that Madusa posed
> for it before she did.
Weren't they in Penthouse?
> -- Eric Bischoff went to DDP and Kimberly's house one day and discussed ways
> to incorporate women into the WCW product. After a brainstorming session,
> the idea for the Nitro Girls came to be. Kimberly headed up the Nitro Girls
> and liked it because there was all different types of girls in the group.
Eric: Kim, I have a great idea for you! A women's wrestling division!
Kim: Sounds good.
DDP: And Kim, you'll be the center of it!
Eric: What do you think?
Kim: Um...
DDP: Just think! Flashy outfits!
Eric: Dance music!
DDP: Pyro!
Eric: Dedicated time to you and the other women on air at least 4
segments every Nitro!
DDP: And think of the marketing potential!
Kim: But I'm not a wrestler!
Eric: That's the beauty of women's wrestling! Nobody cares about the
wrestling! They just want to see hot women gyrating!
Kim: Then why not have a dance group? Like a group of Nitro cheerleaders
who keep the fans entertained during commercial breaks?
DDP: ...
Eric: ...
Kim: You said they don't care about the wrestling anyway!
Eric: I don't know...
Kim: I'll let you pet my cat some time in the future!
[Eric looks at DDP]
DDP: I have no problem with that.
Eric: It's a deal!
> -- James seems to not want to ask the next question but realizes it must be
> asked. He asks about the Gold Club rumors that surround her, DDP, and Eric
> Bischoff. Kimberly seems unaware of what James is asking which is fair
> enough. Kimberly then does tell a great story about Eric when he insisted on
> petting her cat. This cat is not particularly friendly but Eric insisted on
> petting it. Eventually, he got scratched by the cat and it ticked him off.
> Eric screamed that he was going to throw the cat into the wall. Kimberly
> then kicked him out of the house. A few hours later, it dawned on her that
> she just kicked her and her husband's boss out of their house. She says to
> this day, Eric still kids her about that day.
>
What a bitch.... Do you see how women are?
David E. Powell
OK. If I didn't already I would now (heart) Kim just for that.
> -- Since WCW closed, Kimberly has moved to California to be near
Hollywood
> in order to pursue her acting career.
Not bad. Hogan's helping her then? (J/K!) Good luck to her.
> -- Kimberly will have a part in a movie called The 40 Year Old Virgin
that
> will be out in late summer. But, she has a big role in an independent
film
> called Monarch of the Moon where she plays the lead villain.
That sounds cool....
> -- She's listed as doing stunts on her filmography but she is not a
stunt
> worker. She's very proud of the fact that she will do stunts as long
as
> she's doing her own stunts. In other words, she doesn't have a body
double
> and she herself isn't a body double.
>
> -- Kimberly has small parts in the famed movies Rat Race and
Seabiscuit. In
> Rat Race, she plays herself or a version of herself as the wrestling
> character of Diamond Dallas Page's wife. In Seabiscuit, she plays a
bar
> wench (her words) that serves a shot to someone out of her "ample
bosom."
> This floors James and Chuck. Two men in their 20's immediately get
mental
> images when things like that are discussed!
>
> -- Kimberly says acting is a marathon and not a sprint and she is
going to
> fill her resume with independent films.
Go, girl.. Kevin Smith, call this gal.
> -- Kimberly loved working for Richard Lowry who directed the film
Monarch of
> the Moon. She says the movie is different and a lot of fun. It's a
spoof on
> the 1940's serials like Flash Gordon. Her costumes are so creative
that you
> may or may not even realize it is her playing the lead villain.
I want to see this. I love that oldschool stuff, and this sounds like a
nice tribute. Plus the out-of-this-world costumes, I can see Kimberly
Page really playing it up, over the top.
> -- Kimberly only learned to wrestle to a point. "At that stage, I
thought I
> spent enough time in emergency rooms with my husband," said Kimberly.
She
> mentions that she only did a few spots and even those spots there was
a
> potential to get hurt. And, a few times she did get hurt. So, acting
really
> appealed to her more than wrestling. She does do her own stunts in
acting
> but she won't do them unless she is 100% trusting of the stunt
coordinator.
Nod.
> -- Kimberly was a fan of wrestling back in the late 80's and early
90's when
> Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Elizabeth were the big thing. She
remembers
> watching the pay per view event where Randy and Elizabeth got married
> (Summerslam 1991) and first of all having her mother look at her like
she
> was crazy for watching it and second of all thinking how beautiful
Elizabeth
> was. She goes on to say how she and Elizabeth stayed close up until
when she
> (Kimberly) moved to California. She misses Elizabeth greatly.
That is so sad. They got to work together a lot, right up to the end of
the company. They did have great chemistry, even if they usually played
rivals.
> -- Kimberly was attending graduate school when she met DDP. She was
trying
> her best to get her masters in marketing. When she did, she hated it.
DDP in
> turn was trying to make it in wrestling. After doing a little
modeling, she
> was brought in to wrestling to do some valet work. It was 2 years
into her
> work as a valet until she actually got a contract from WCW. She says
she
> went on to be under WCW contract for 8 years and feels it was a
wonderful
> way for her to be where she wanted to be, in front of the camera
instead of
> behind it.
Cool.
> -- "We all make our own choices. She made her own choices and they
turned
> out to be her demise. It breaks my heart to this day. But, ultimately
we're
> all responsible for the choices we make. It's really sad. To this
day, I
> feel that Lex has enough burden on his shoulders without worrying
about bad
> energy from other people. He loved her a lot. I can't fault him."
>
> -- Kimberly laughs when we mention the Dave "Evad" Sullivan love
triangle.
> James professes his love of the "Evad" character. Kimberly enjoyed it
> tremendously but feels they pulled the plug on it a bit quickly
without
> letting it progress or climax the way it should've. She also says
Dave is a
> wonderful guy.
Go Dave!
> -- We mention that Ed Leslie AKA The Booty Man AKA Brutus "The
Barber"
> Beefcake AKA Zodiac AKA The Butcher AKA The Man Without a Name AKA
The
> Disciple AKA Brute Force AKA Brother Bruti bashed Diamond Dallas Page
and
> Eric Bischoff for "holding him down." Kimberly seems surprised that
Ed had
> heat towards them because she enjoyed working with him. "He was a
nice guy.
> And, he had a beautiful bike," says Kim.
I can't see why he'd be mad, either. I mean, it was a good shot to get
in with a big promotion....
> -- Kimberly seems to not want to take credit for the amount of WWE
stars
> using Playboy for publicity these days. Kimberly mentions that Madusa
posed
> for it before she did.
Oh, I'll have to lok that up! Um, I mean, when was that?
> -- Kimberly mentions that Eric Bischoff's wife is actually in Playboy
this
> month in the "Not So Desperate Housewives" edition.
>
> -- Eric Bischoff went to DDP and Kimberly's house one day and
discussed ways
> to incorporate women into the WCW product. After a brainstorming
session,
> the idea for the Nitro Girls came to be. Kimberly headed up the Nitro
Girls
> and liked it because there was all different types of girls in the
group.
Me too. Me too.
> -- "He killed the Nitro Girls," says Kimberly about Vince Russo.
James
> mentions how they tried to have them wrestle and they simply weren't
> wrestlers. Kimberly agrees. They also discuss how they were
marketable with
> the video released as well as the Nitro Girls calendar and so forth.
But,
> she feels Russo wanted to go in a more "old school" direction with no
> dancing girls and after that, the only time you saw the Nitro Girls
was
> maybe for a few seconds once a week if that.
I still remember Tygress attempting dance moves during a match.
> -- Kimberly was on her way out of the group at that time anyway
because
> running the group and trying to keep up with her home life and such
became a
> strain.
>
> -- The reason the angle between she and Page in 2000 never really
finished
> was due to a lot of circumstances. One of them was that they wanted
her to
> do things she wasn't willing to do. Another reason was she simply
wanted to
> do acting and was sort of out of wrestling at this point.
Nod.. things were imploding then.
> -- Kimberly is so proud of DDP. "I love him more than ever." She goes
on to
> talk about Yoga and how Page felt about it before he tried it. She
also says
> he is sitting on a million dollar idea with the book and video "Yoga
For
> Regular Guys" which takes the work out that is Yoga and removes a lot
of the
> aspects of it that turns men and some of Western culture off to it.
James
> discusses his passion for Tai Chi and Chi Kung but how he dislikes
the crazy
> names like "Monkey Sits on Rock" and such. Kimberly says that and a
lot of
> the feminine things that detract men from Yoga are taken out and
replaced
> with masculine aspects making Yoga exactly what the book and video
title
> should indicate, "For Regular Guys."
Takes a lot of confidence in one's masculinity.. but no one on RSPW
will ever question Hindu Squats as an exercise either now.. YOWCH.
> -- James seems to not want to ask the next question but realizes it
must be
> asked. He asks about the Gold Club rumors that surround her, DDP, and
Eric
> Bischoff. Kimberly seems unaware of what James is asking which is
fair
> enough.
Uh.. yeah. Not exactly the most comfortable matter there....
Kimberly then does tell a great story about Eric when he insisted on
> petting her cat. This cat is not particularly friendly but Eric
insisted on
> petting it. Eventually, he got scratched by the cat and it ticked him
off.
> Eric screamed that he was going to throw the cat into the wall.
Kimberly
> then kicked him out of the house. A few hours later, it dawned on her
that
> she just kicked her and her husband's boss out of their house. She
says to
> this day, Eric still kids her about that day.
Hey, she's a good owner. Bob Barker would love her.
> -- Kimberly mentions that Monarch of the Moon should get a great deal
of
> national and international releases and says to check out
> www.KimberlyPage.com to keep up on that as well as all the other
projects
> Kimberly's up to including new photo shoots, newsletters, and more.
Do check
> it out. It's a great site!
I haev before, and am definitely going to again....
> -- Kimberly will once again be a part of Wrestle Reunion this summer.
Check
> out www.WrestleReunion.com. She says it is unlike any fan convention
because
> you have huge name superstars going one on one with the fans.
>
> -- We then roll into a few word associations with names like Eric
Bischoff,
> Hulk Hogan, Fyre, Spice, Whisper, Randy Savage, DDP, and more!
>
> -- All of this and so much more can be heard from the beautiful
Kimberly's
> mouth by clicking the link. This is a 40 minute interview! You're
bound to
> hear a lot more than what the text would indicate!
>
> -- The show rounds off with an ECW discussion including James'
memories of
> ECW and what made it great as well as why the One Night Stand pay per
view
> will either be a raging success or a pathetic failure. The show wraps
up
> with "Wild" Mick Brown belting out Crazy Mary Goes Round on Dokken's
1999
> release titled Erase the Slate. Pick it up!
=D