Movie Star On Andre The Giant's Drinking Ability, WWE Stars Talk Designing Title Belts, Jake Roberts

- You can check out the latest episode of WWE Inbox in the video above, featuring WWE stars talking about designing their own title belts.

- Jake "The Snake" Roberts is scheduled to appear at the "Wrestling Night In Hanover" show next Friday, September 26th at the John Diefenbaker Secondary School in Hanover, Ontario. You can get more details here.

- The Daily Beast has an interview with actor Cary Elwes at this link, who starred with Andre the Giant in The Princess Bride. During the interview, Elwes discussed Andre getting the role, which at one point was going to be played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. He also talked about Andre passing out in the middle of a lobby of a hotel after the first script reading.

"They decided that there was no shifting him," Elwes recalled. "There's no shifting a 550-pound, 7-foot-4 giant, so they had a choice: either call the authorities, and they didn't want that kind of publicity, or wait for him to wake up, which was the wiser decision. It should be pointed out that Andre didn't drink for the sake of drinking?Andre was in a lot of pain, God bless him. His back was injured from carrying all that weight around, and from having other wrestlers breaking chairs over his back. He was due to have an operation right after the shoot, and his doctor didn't know what kind of pain medication to give him because of his size, so the only way that he could deal with the pain was to drink alcohol. And it didn't affect him at all. He didn't flub a line or miss a day. The guy could handle his liquor, let me tell ya."

Damien Demento contributed to this article.

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