Fire Editorial

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There was a guy in the Upper Midwest named Ed Farhat. But nobody who watched him work knew that that was his name, because he never dropped character in public. Not once. He played a guy from Lebanon; his mom was, in fact, from Lebanon. He was from Detroit. His character was called The Sheik. And his gimmick was that he didn’t care if his opponents died, disfigured, or burned beyond recognition, so long as he walked out and they got carried out. When I was a child, it was terrifying to read about this guy. He didn’t want to win; he just wanted to murder his opponents. And the wrestling magazines would write these editorials, you know, because they had to keep character, they wrote these editorials editorials saying, ‘Someone has to stop The Sheik! Someone’s gotta stop him! 'Cause he’s gonna blind somebody! He will blind them! We gotta pass a law against this guy!’ In point of fact, he owned the Michigan and Indiana territory. He was the boss, right, so he couldn’t have been banned. It was his game. But when you are twelve, all you know is wow, here’s this guy, who is throwing fire at people. That’s how- he goes into the wrestling ring, he knows the rules and he throws fire at them. (2015-05-29)