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VIP - MCNEILL FACTOR: Now We Go (Back) To School (PWTorch Newsletter #989) Sep 11, 2007 - 1:42:14 PM
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"McNeill Factor"
Newsletter Headline: Now We Go (Back) To School
Originally published: September 15, 2007
From Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter #989
Flair is said to be happy with his personal life right now with his new wife... Reid Flair, who has been handful in recent years, has begun his freshman year at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. He's planning to be a walk-on on the wrestling team.
- Torch Newsletter #988
WWE Films Presents: Ric Flair in "Back To School"
Screenplay by Keith Eliot Greenberg & Paul Heyman (okay, mostly Heyman)
Based on the original spreenplay by Steven Kampmann and Harold Ramis (and a message board post by Mark Madden.)
(We opens outside the pristine Flair residence in suburban Charlotte, where RIC FLAIR and his third wife, TIFFANY are sitting at the kitchen table. The doorbell rings. The doorbell, of course, plays the opening bars of the "2001" theme.)
RIC: I'll get it! (He opens the door to find his oldest son, DAVID, wearing a t-shirt and denim shorts.)
DAVID: Hi, Dad! Hi, Tiffany!
(TIFFANY arches an eyebrow at DAVID.)
DAVID: …I mean, "Mom."
(TIFFANY smiles.)
RIC: So, what brings you out here, David?
DAVID: I come out here every week, Dad. To mow the grass. Normally, you're not here.
TIFFANY: I meant to tell you, David, you don't have to do the lawn any more. Now that your father isn't out of the road, he's starting to spend more time in the garden.
DAVID: Really?
RIC: I bought a riding mower. Can I get you a beer, son?
DAVID: Dad, it's eleven in the morning.
RIC: You're right. Tiffany, where's the Bloody Mary mix?
TIFFANY: Behind the bar. So, David, how's the lawn care business going?
DAVID: I don't do that any more.
RIC: I told you, baby. David left that dead-end job months ago. He's working at K-Mart now.
DAVID: I'm managing the Garden Center.
RIC (putting his arm around David): I told you. You're a born leader. Because you're a by-God Flair. You kids are going to do everything I never got to do.
DAVID: What would that be, exactly?
(The phone rings. TIFFANY picks it up.)
TIFFANY: Honey! Reid's on the phone.
(Flair's eyes light up.)
FLAIR: Whoo! (Takes the phone from his wife.) Hey, Reid! How ya doin', son? How's college?
(Cut to a shot of Reid in the wrestling team locker room.)
REID: School's tough, Dad. I'm not used to all this studying.
FLAIR: Listen, Reid. It's like I told you. You need an education. I never graduated from college. You don't want to end up like me, do you?
REID: You mean rich, famous, adored by millions, with a beautiful wife half my age?
(There is an awkward pause.)
FLAIR: So, how's the wrestling team going?
REID: Great! We have a big meet next week.
FLAIR: Well, I have some... time off from work. I'll come down and spend the weekend with you.
REID: Uh, no Dad. I'm going to be really busy and I won't have enough time to spend with you. I'll come home in a few weeks for fall break.
FLAIR: All right, son. Remember, you're a Flair. You can do anything! I love you.
REID: Love you too, Dad.
(They hang up. REID is approached by wrestler BILLY ZABKA, who is played by, let's say, NICK STAHL.)
BILLY: Flair, I told you to clean out my locker! If that's too much trouble for you, we can find ourselves a new towel boy.
(We pan out to reveal that REID, is, in fact, the towel boy. Cut back to the Flair family kitchen.)
FLAIR: I've made up my mind. For years, I let my job come between me and Reid. No more! I'm calling Arn and Tully and we're going on a road trip to spend the week at college with Reid!
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