Pia Zadora at 64: Alive, Kicking and Singing
A popular weekend cabaret show and forthcoming album of standards
On IMDb, Pia Zadora is listed as being 63. In U.S. newspapers this spring, a May 4 “On This Day” syndicated blurb framed her as turning 65. The Hoboken, N.J. native is in fact 64.
Zadora’s name has come up in the media a fair bit this summer. The Netflix series GLOW harkens black to a 1986-90 syndicated TV show about female wrestlers financed by her then-husband Meshulam Riklis. Several articles about the Netflix offering, including one this week in the Las Vegas Weekly, revisit rumors that an ultimatum given to Riklis by Zadora, allegedly fed up at the time with her spouse’s dalliances with the wrestling ladies, led him to pull the plug on the syndicated hit series without warning.
A new generation is also becoming acquainted this summer with Zadora’s 1983 film The Lonely Lady, thanks to a remastered version released June 13 on Blu-ray.
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