HBO’s Andre The Giant documentary is as powerful as its subject
by Noel Murray on TV Club, shared by Tom Ley to Deads from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3MDC4)
"Before there was CGI, there was Andre The Giant." So says David Shoemaker, wrestling historian, trying to describe what it was like for audiences in the 1970s the first time they saw the enormous Frenchman Andri(C) Reni(C) Roussimoff, either in person or on their TV sets.