Dwayne Johnson’s 50th movie, The Smashing Machine , begins in 1997 and ends in 2000. Coincidentally, the wrestler previously known as “Flex Kavana” and “Rocky Maivia” began calling himself “The Rock” in 1997 and published his memoir in 2000. A New York Times best-seller, The Rock Says … alternates between one man’s two voices: ravenous self-mythologizing egomaniac Rock, and thoughtful young Dwayne carefully plotting his next business venture. “We’ve all worked hard to place The Rock at a certain level,” he says (describing himself, or his public image, in the third person). “And we just want to make sure that his first movie is a good movie. Will The Rock be the next James Dean or Cary Grant or James Stewart? I don’t think so. But he could be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger … only b

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