Read As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Online
Authors: Cary Elwes,Joe Layden
Stengel, Casey, as inspiration for Miracle Max makeup,
162
Storry, Malcolm,
126
Studio Babelsberg,
15
Sunday in the Park with George
(film),
71
The Temple of Gold
(Goldman),
20
Thibault d’Anvers, Gerard,
66
This is Spinal Tap
(film):
Christopher Guest and,
18
,
23
,
188
,
216
Nigel Tufnel’s amp,
200
USS
Coral Sea
hat from,
191
–92
The Three Musketeers
(film),
201
Tony Awards,
71
Toronto Film Festival,
4
,
218
–19,
220
,
221
,
235
Toronto International Film Festival,
218
Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue
(Agrippa),
66
Truffaut, François,
17
,
18
,
22
,
242
20th Century Fox,
21
,
22
–23,
217
,
218
,
220
,
222
,
223
Twister
(film),
6
2001: A Space Odyssey
(film),
36
Vernon, Dorothy,
112
Vernon, George,
112
Waiting for Godot
(Beckett),
120
Waiting for Guffman
(film),
188
Webber, Andrew Lloyd,
71
Which Lie Did I Tell
(Goldman),
86
Wilder, Gene,
217
–18
William Morris Agency,
14
William the Conqueror,
112
Winters, Jonathan,
24
The Wizard of Oz
(film),
8
,
40
,
165
,
222
Wright, Robin:
André the Giant and,
63
,
117
,
118
,
148
Buttercup role and,
145
–49
cast’s table read and,
53
Cliffs of Insanity scene and,
158
–59
Cary Elwes and,
41
–44,
60
–61,
96
–99,
143
–49,
183
,
186
end of production and,
216
Fire Swamp scenes and,
85
,
87
,
90
,
96
–100,
102
–3
imitating accents and,
44
,
61
,
143
–44
laughing on set and,
107
Rob Reiner and,
140
Wallace Shawn and,
157
shooting final scenes and,
212
–15
twenty-fifth-anniversary screening and,
4
,
237
Writer’s Guild of America,
9
Wyeth, N. C.,
36
Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow
(Goldman),
20
Zigfield Theater,
221
Zorro
(film),
35
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Elwes, Cary.
As you wish : inconceivable tales from the making of The princess bride / Cary Elwes with Joe Layden.
pages cm
Includes index.
1. Princess bride (Motion picture) 2. Elwes, Cary. I. Layden, Joe. II. Title.
PN1997.P74534E69 2014
791.43'72—dc23 2014014652
ISBN 978-1-4767-6402-3
ISBN 978-1-4767-6403-0 (ebook)