Cast Reunion Photo for The Princess Bride

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

@Ferret_Herder

Indeed that is. Wiki has a clearer photo of him from a few years earlier.

Rugen was Christopher Guest? Huh. I didn’t know that!

[GuanoLad]

Wallace Shawn should write an article called “My Dinner With Andre The Giant.”

[Musicat]

@IvoryTowerDenizen

Is that Count Rugen by the horse?

Yeah, but I can’t see how many fingers he has.

[iamthewalrus_3]

@GuanoLad

Wallace Shawn should write an article called “My Dinner With Andre The Giant.”

Because I only knew Wallace Shawn from The Princess Bride, for well over a decade I assumed that the titular “Andre” was in fact Andre the Giant.

I was very disappointed when I finally watched the movie.

[aruvqan]

@TriPolar

Yes. The photograph doesn’t do him justice. A life size one would have. My friend Tim was Andre’s personal manager for many years. I told him about another friend from work who wouldn’t know wrestling from a hole in the wall. In a discussion about the Princess Bride the work friend tossed out “Wasn’t Andre the Giant a professional wrestler also?” When I told Tim about this his eyes teared up, he said Andre would have been proud to hear that someone only knew him as an actor.

You can let your friend know that I think only of Andre the Giant as being in The Princess Bride also. I thought he was seriously fun in the movie. I have watched perhaps 10 minutes of professional wrestling, mainly while channel surfing past. I do, however, watch The Princess Bride at least 5 or 6 times a year, and have for at least 10 years that I can think of. [6 goddaughters, way too much kid vid for my own sanity. Finding something thye like that is also good for adults, priceless.]

[Musicat]

I just thought of something. Count Rugen has 11 fingers, and Nigel’s amp goes to 11.

Hmmm…

[Nunzio_Tavulari]

@AClockworkMelon

Carol Kane doesn’t look bad for 60. Really, they all look pretty good. Shame they couldn’t get Savage.

I didn’t know who that was. I was disappointed that they didn’t have Billy Crystal and Carol Kane. There was this woman sitting down that I couldn’t identify, and some guy with a melon for a head standing next to her. Who are they? Well now I know. Billy looks pretty bad for any age.

[Nunzio_Tavulari]

@Enright3

My God. Robin Wright just gets more beautiful with age.

She looks very much like Michael Penn’s wife, Aimee Mann.

[Loach]

Its a fun issue each year. Here is a photo from this year of the cast of Arrested Development.

[TriPolar]

@aruvqan

You can let your friend know that I think only of Andre the Giant as being in The Princess Bride also. I thought he was seriously fun in the movie. I have watched perhaps 10 minutes of professional wrestling, mainly while channel surfing past. I do, however, watch The Princess Bride at least 5 or 6 times a year, and have for at least 10 years that I can think of. [6 goddaughters, way too much kid vid for my own sanity. Finding something thye like that is also good for adults, priceless.]

I will let him know. As time goes on fewer and fewer people will remember seeing Andre wrestle. More and more will remember him in the Princess Bride.

[astorian]

@TriPolar

I will let him know. As time goes on fewer and fewer people will remember seeing Andre wrestle. More and more will remember him in the Princess Bride.

I actually remember him best for a bout at Shea Stadium against boxer Chuck Wepner! That was a preliminary to a closed-circuit TV bout between Muhammad Ali and Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki.

The Wepner/Andre bout was OBVIOUSLY a pre-planned joke (or, to use old-fashioned wrestling lingo, “a work”). They played it for laughs from the beginning, and it ended up with a bunch of other wrestlers entering the ring and going nuts.

I suspect that’s the kind of bout Ali himself WANTED to have… but his actual bout with Inoki was a crashing bore in which NOTHING happened for 15 rounds, except Inoki bouncing around on his butt and trying to do ineffectual leg sweeps.