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Bad News, Heirs

Judge John Hodgman

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Do You Know Who Played the Princess Bride?

It wasn't Andre the Giant, Wallace Shawn or Carol Akane. Was it Mandy Patekkin? It wasn't the Patek. The very famous, and it was just a small part, very famous British comedian Peter Cook. That monologue of a father giving his teenage son a lesson on the facts of life is from a sketch called the Facts of Life. They're kind of pulling a HBO discovery ahead of their time.

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