André the Giant"André the Giant [who claimed to be 7'5" and 550 pounds] was very strong," William Goldman once recalled. "I was talking to an actor who was shooting a movie in Mexico. What you had to know about Andre was that if he asked you to dinner, he paid, but when you asked him, he also paid. This actor, after several free meals, invited Andre to dinner and, late in the meal, snuck into the kitchen to give his credit card to the maitre d'. As he was about to do this, he felt himself being lifted up in the air..."
"When he had me up in the air," the actor recalled, "he turned me so I was facing him, and he said, 'I pay.' Then he carried me back to my table where he set me down in my chair like a little boy. Oh yes, Andre was very strong."
The actor? Arnold Schwarzenegger.
[André once consumed 12 lobsters and 12 steaks at a buffet in Rhode Island.]
[Trivia: André, who suffered from acromegaly (marked by the continual secretion of growth hormones), was once hospitalized with pnenmonia. He lost 100 pounds in three weeks.]
Roussimoff, André René ["André the Giant"] (1946-1993) French wrestler and actor, WWF World Heavyweight champion (1988), first WWF Hall of Fame inductee (1993) [noted for his roles in such films as
The Princess Bride]
[Sources: William Goldman, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade]More André Roussimoff anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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