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Take away the exploding drummers and foil-wrapped cucumbers, and This Is Spinal Tap is a movie about people who take themselves seriously. Which is why it's a comedy classic. Christopher Guest used that same seriousness in three more improvised comedies: Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and a new folk-music film, A Mighty Wind. Guest, who writes his movies with Eugene Levy, reunited with Tap alumni Harry Shearer and Michael McKean as the Folksmen in this film. All four sat with TIME's Richard Corliss and Josh Tyrangiel for a folksy conversation...
Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, the two earlier improvised comedies Guest assembled and directed, are about people whose dream of achieving an obscure goal (putting on a small-town musical, winning a dog show) far outstrips their sense or competence. In A Mighty Wind, he and co-writer Eugene Levy offer a new blueprint for poignant idiocy: the reunion of three folk groups 40 years after their 15 seconds of fame...
...Howie, Peter’s nasal-voiced best friend, Eugene Levy lives up to the high caliber of his past performances in Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman. Although his role is small, it’s crucial to the storyline and general message of the movie. Howie’s not ridiculing black culture with his speech patterns; he’s speaking from the heart, something Charlene eventually recognizes and appreciates...
...employed as the co-writer and one of the stars of This Is Spinal Tap, that perfect satire about a heavy-metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome re-release and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind Waiting for Guffman, in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway bound...
...first employed as the cowriter and one of the stars of "This Is Spinal Tap," that perfect satire about a heavy metal band on the treadmill to oblivion, which is presently enjoying a welcome rerelease and a new DVD version. He is also the force behind "Waiting for Guffman," in which he plays Corky St. Clair, a small-town hairdresser who deludes himself into believing that the historical pageant he has directed may be Broadway-bound...