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Box Brown, Andre Giant, and Wrestling Reality
Every single professional wrestling enthusiast has heard the question, ”Isn’t it fake?” Or, if they’re being a dick, “You know it’s fake, right?” Sometimes, if you ask, you might just get slapped across the face. If you’re talking to me, you’ll get a complex response*. Yes, the outcomes are predetermined. And yes, they’re not really punching one another. But, no, you can’t fake the amazing dives or the nasty chair shots, and fans generally treat it as a very specific form of storytelling. It’s a lot like if The Avengers were a sports movie. You know it’s not real, but you get into the story just like how you would Rocky.
There’s a certain need for wrestling fans to justify their low-art obsession — older comic book readers should know that feel* — but there’s a fine line between justifying in the face of cultural stigma and simply explaining the significance for the sake of context. Box Brown opens his biographic
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When Samuel Beckett Drove Young André the Giant to School
Are your idle moments spent inventing imaginary conversations between strange bedfellows? The sort of conversation that might transpire in a pickup truck belonging to Samuel Beckett, say, were the Irish playwright to chauffeur the child André Rene Roussimoff—aka pro wrestlerAndré the Giant—to school?
Too silly, you say? Nonsense. This isn’t some wackadoo random pairing, but an actual historic meeting of the minds, as André’s Princess Brideco-star and soon-to-be-published film historian, Cary Elwes, attests above.
In 1958, when 12-year-old André’s acromegaly prevented him from taking the school bus, the author of Waiting for Godot, whom he knew as his dad’s card buddy and neighbor in rural Moulien, France, volunteered for transport duty. André recalled that they mostly talked about cricket, but surely they discussed other topics, too, right? Right!?
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