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An ROUS arrested, Inigo’s ninja skills, & 12 more things we learned at the 25th anniversary of ‘The Princess Bride’

EW.com by Hillary Busis October 3, 2012

What, you didn’t learn enough about everyone’s favorite meta fairy tale from EW’s exhaustive Princess Bride oral history — and you’d like the skinny on the New York Film Festival’s 25th anniversary Bride screening? As you wish!

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‘Princess Bride’s’ Robin Wright on co-star Cary Elwes : ‘I was so in love with him’

Over the past 25 years, “The Princess Bride” has become a cult classic that rivals “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” for sheer quotability. It had magic, torture, true love, poisonings, swordplay and a giant, for crying out loud!

But did it have romance behind the scenes?

TODAY’s Lester Holt sat down with three of the film’s key players on Wednesday — director Rob Reiner and stars Robin Wright and Cary Elwes — to find out the scoop.

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As you wish: It’s a ‘Princess Bride’ reunion

By Jennifer Vineyard, Special to CNN – October 5, 2012

(CNN) — “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

Not a day goes by without someone asking Mandy Patinkin to say this famous and oft-repeated line. Despite Patinkin’s numerous other accomplishments and recent hit turn on the Showtime drama “Homeland,” “The Princess Bride” is what people want to hear from him, “and I never let them down,” he told CNN.

“I get asked for that line, too,” laughed Chris Sarandon, who played the dastardly Prince Humperdinck. “They always want me to quote Mandy, or Wally Shawn: ‘Inconceivable!’ And once in a great while, I get a plea for ‘I’m swamped.’”

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‘The Princess Bride’ 25th Anniversary: Cary Elwes Reflects On The Beloved Film

The Huffington Post  |  By Mike Ryan October 4, 2012

Considering how often “The Princess Bride” shows up on television, it might surprise you to learn that Cary Elwes hadn’t seen the film in 25 years. That changed on Tuesday night, when Elwes — who starred as the erstwhile Westley in “The Princess Bride” (who would later assume the identity of the Dread Pirate Roberts) — reunited with the cast and crew of the beloved classic for a special anniversary screening at the New York Film Festival done in conjunction with the film’s Blu-ray release.

Ahead, Elwes reflects on the night, how “The Princess Bride” has aged, and what it was like to meet Andre the Giant.

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Cary Elwes, Robin Wright and Rob Reiner celebrate 25th anniversary of The Princess Bride by partnering with global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps

Watch the two-minute PSA here: http://bit.ly/MercyCorpsHero

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October 1, 2012

Contact:  Janai Speer

Janai@globalphilanthropy.com / (310) 584-7056

October 1, 2012 – To celebrate the 25^th anniversary of the movie The Princess Bride, actors Cary Elwes, Robin Wright and director Rob Reiner have partnered with global humanitarian organization Mercy Corps to raise funds for its relief and development efforts across the globe.

By signing up as a monthly Mercy Corps donor at www.MercyCorps.org/PrincessBride, fans of the 1987 movie can receive limited-edition memorabilia, including a copy of the movie script signed by Elwes, Wright and Reiner, an alternate-title movie poster, and an official replica Rob Reiner beard hair.

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