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Some skipped work to catch a glimpse of the parade. Some carried signs. But all 50 or so of the wrestling fans waiting in the cold outside 44 Bow St. never saw World Wrestling Federation (WWF) star the Rock yesterday...
Confirming the incident was a prank, Ryan McKenna, a public relations specialist for the WWF, said he had no knowledge of any Rock appearance yesterday...
...someone who studies stage violence, how do you view something like WWF, particularly in the context of contemporary culture...
...same time, however, the violence is staged in a public arena, and arenas tend to cross economic and even gender lines in a way that home performances don't. In some ways, WWF acts both ways: you watch it on TV but it's also in a public arena. And it even travels around so that it becomes a sort of court, a sort of "for the people" activity. If you remove it into a more private space--say, now it's going to be at the Kennedy Center--it's going to be quite different...
...could predict the future of WWF based on your knowledge of trends of stage violence in the past, what would...