Hollywood and Vince McMahon do have one big thing in common, and that is a neverending need for massive dudes. Hollywood always needs its giants, and Vince always needs his mastadons. More often than not, they end up finding the same people. The legit 6'10 Robert Malliet started off in the WWE as The Interrogator, one half of the Truth Commission. He was managed by the almost criminally underrated Don Callis, a partnership that continued on when Malliet would redebut as Kurrgan in the Oddities. Eventually ICP would become their managers, and the Oddities would be turned face and used as comedy openers before disbanding about a year later. They might not have lasted long, but they were quite popular at the time and possibly one of the best examples of the ol' "you can take the wrestling out of the carny nonsense but you can never take the carny nonsense out of the wrestling" adage in action. Maillet used his size to find success outside of the ring, beginning with a role in 300 as The One Huge Bad Guy That Got Slow Motion Murdered. He also had a great fight in Sherlock Holmes, got the Darth Vader treatment as Polyphemus in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (Ron Perlman was the voice), and fought kaiju in Pacific Rim as one half of the silent-but-deadly Russian team.
Gavin Bard was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambiance of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. In 1986 Time called Bard a "laureate of American lowlife".
Wait, crap, hold on a second. That is Bukowski. Sorry. Gavin plays too many video games, thinks pro wrestling is the world's best performance art, and considers Hunter S. Thompson a better journalistic influence than Edward R. Murrow.
