Perhaps it’s his biggest pro wrestling match, against Hulk Hogan in front of 93,000 fans at WrestleMania III, when he suffered the first loss of his career.
Or it could be the movie “The Princess Bride,” when he carried the Man in Black on his back during a fight scene and caught Princess Buttercup as she jumped from a castle.
Well, almost every detail in those memories is a lie. Those myths and legends are what make Andre Rene Roussimoff an enduring icon of pop culture, even 27 years after his death.
In their new book “The Eighth Wonder of the World: The True Story of Andre the Giant,” available at all major online booksellers, Bertrand Hebert and Pat Laprade attempt to get to the man behind the myth through interviews with family, friends and contemporaries, along with exhaustive research.