{"id":37367,"date":"2024-10-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2024-10-26T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T00:49:28","slug":"the-american-dream-the-dusty-rhodes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37367","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story&#8221; (2006) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102724zview_dustyrhodes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Dusty Rhodes, Dick <em>&#8220;the Bruiser&#8221;<\/em> Afflis, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Eric Bischoff, Tully Blanchard, <\/strong> <strong>Gerald Brisco, John Cena, Ted DiBiase, Ric Flair, Terry Funk, <em>Superstar<\/em> Billy Graham, Mike Graham, Jimmy Hart, Bobby Heenan, Jerry Lawler, Paul<em> &#8220;Triple H&#8221;<\/em> Levesque, Vince McMahon, Dick Murdock, Gene Okerland, Pat Patterson, Roddy Piper, Bruce Prichard, Harley Race, Dustin Rhodes, Ron Simmons<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Hulk Hogan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The life story of Dusty Rhodes.\u00a0 Born the son of a plumber in Austin, Texas, he became one of the most beloved professional wrestlers in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dusty Rhodes, at one time, was one of the highest paid and most successful wrestlers in the world.\u00a0 Everywhere he went Rhodes rose to the top.\u00a0 Even when Dusty Rhodes was older, he was wanted as a writer and booker for promotions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What I admire about Dusty is that he was able to figure out how to make each situation he was in work.\u00a0 Even when Vince McMahon gave Rhodes a silly persona and a polka-dot outfit, Rhodes was able to make the character a fan favorite.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rhodes was king on a microphone.\u00a0 His &#8220;hard times&#8221; speech is considered a classic by wrestling fans.\u00a0 One of my favorite Rhodes&#8217; quotes is: &#8220;I<em> have wined and dined with kings and queens and I&#8217;ve slept in alleys and dined on pork and beans&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story (2006)<\/strong> <\/em>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z102724zview_dustyrhodes2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Dream: The Dusty Rhodes Story (2006) Stars: Dusty Rhodes, Dick &#8220;the Bruiser&#8221; Afflis, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Eric<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,49,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-sports","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37384,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions\/37384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}