The Princess Bride

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UNTIL A COUPLE of weeks ago, this introduction would have been real short: "Why are you buying this book?" is what I would have said. Or more accurately, this edition of this book?

Buy the 25th anniversary version, I would have told you. It's got a long intro by yours truly where I explain a lot about the Morgenstern estate and the horrible legal problems I've had with them. That version is still out there and what you are interested in is the same thing that I am interested in—namely, at last, getting Buttercup's Baby published.

I would also have gone on to tell you that there is nothing to report on that front. Same old same old. Well, that was then, as they say.

Something new has very much happened.

LET ME TELL you how I first heard of the existence of the Morgenstern Museum.

Back we go to 1986, Sheffield, England, and we are shooting the movie of The Princess Bride. It was such a happy time for me, at last Morgenstern coming to life on film. I had written the screenplay for it first over a decade before—but it had never been "picked up," as they say Out There, till then.

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