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How could this happen in such a macho and drug-addled culture?
shakahislop
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it's weird hearing about Vince McMahon's sexual proclivities given how clearly they're also expressed in WWE. although thankfully toned down. WWE has a strange similarity to auteurship.
version
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Seems to be common knowledge he kept pushing for incest plot lines involving him, his son and his daughter and others in the company had to dissuade him from going through with them.
Yeah, he's clearly some sort of visionary. The blurring of management and the backstage with the action was really remarkable. Sometimes you'd find yourself wondering what was scripted, who was entirely in character. The whole company was this gyre of semi-fiction spiraling round the McMahon family.
There was a healthy dollop of the absurd too. This was a particularly bizarre moment,
It was. Vince Russo loved Larry Sanders.
Corpsey
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This series is well worth a watch
I think it probably totally misrepresents the facts in places cos Vince is SORT OF in charge of it and many of the talking heads are probably lying/covering up for him and themselves but then it also shows Vince as being a scumbag degenerate at various points in the show, albeit one that was probably birthed by growing up dirt poor with a molester for a mother
Despite all the horrors going on behind the scenes and the (to my adult eyes) blatantly racist and sexist shit going on in front of the cameras it did make me nostalgic particularly for the Attitude era with stone cold blasting Vince with the beer hose etc.
Vince is a complete cunt ofc but he was also a sort of pantomime genius playing that heel character (who wasn't that much of a character, it seems, despite his protestations)
version
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Ask someone to do it to you and report back.
version
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I dunno how it was planned, but you'll often see people do that sort of move and the other wrestler subtly putting their hands up so as not to take the full force, get hit in the face, etc.
How are you struggling to see what would be painful about running directly into someone drop kicking you in the chest off the top rope?