As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride (40 page)

Stand by Me
(film),
18
,
22

Star Wars
(film),
36
,
37
,
68
,
95

Stengel, Casey, as inspiration for Miracle Max makeup,
162

Sting (musician),
18
,
191

Storry, Malcolm,
126

Studio Babelsberg,
15

Sunday in the Park with George
(film),
71

The Sure Thing
(film),
17
,
18
,
20

Taxi
(TV show),
24
,
163

The Temple of Gold
(Goldman),
20

Thibault d’Anvers, Gerard,
66

This is Spinal Tap
(film):

Christopher Guest and,
18
,
23
,
188
,
216

Rob Reiner and,
11
–17,
18
,
20

Nigel Tufnel’s amp,
200

USS
Coral Sea
hat from,
191
–92

The Three Musketeers
(film),
201

Time Bandits
(film),
40
,
212

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

VHS video market,
8
,
228

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

casting of,
25
,
41
–45,
54
,
242

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

William Goldman and,
43
,
44

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

Yentl
(film),
71
,
88

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)