“The Featherweight,” a new movie about prizefighter Willie Pep, is finally bobbing and weaving its way into a Connecticut theater near you starting Friday. The movie is not just about a ...

Willie Pep is my favorite all-time, old-school fighter. Two-hundred and twenty-nine wins against 11 losses and one draw, won and regained the featherweight title, competed in three decades and ...

There’s a story that Willie Pep, the protagonist of Robert Kolodny’s feature debut The Featherweight, likes to tell. It’s about a match with a kid, who, so awed by the boxing champion ...

What if they don’t like me?’ She was going on and on. Well, Willie stood there for 45 minutes and gave her the pep talk of a lifetime.” Hope and Faith can, indeed, go a long way as the rest ...

Mary Lovelock, director of South Park Inn at 75 Main St., had something in common with her honored visitor, Willie Pep. “Today’s my birthday,” she said. “Oh yeah?,” said Willie ...

Director Robert Kolodny's "The Featherweight" tells the story of Willie Pep (James Madio), a retired boxing champ who decides to make a return to the ring in the mid-1960s when he's well past his ...

In the ring, Willie Pep was known as the "Will O' the Wisp," but even he couldn't elude the one opponent that ultimately claims us all. Pep, a Hall of Fame boxer who reportedly had been suffering ...

The post-salad days of real-life Connecticut boxer Willie Pep are dramatized with impressive vérité verisimilitude in Robert Kolodny's Venice-premiered debut feature. So convincingly ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Fake name Willie Pep weighed 105 pounds and was ranked a flyweight. The fighter he went up against was then a welterweight fighting under the ...

Willie Pep, in my mind, is the greatest creative fighter that ever lived. In his prime days the man known as "Will o' the Wisp" possessed a defensive ability and an intelligence inside the ...

WTNH Hartford Wethersfield 'Italian Mama' stars in Willie Pep film Posted: September 15, 2024 | Last updated: September 15, 2024 Imma Aiello had never acted before until she was tapped to play the ...