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...shakes his head recalling that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just a week before. Everything had been fine." Not long after, the diagnosis was conclusive: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. Signorini was helpless against the progressive paralysis that eventually froze every part of his body. He died six months ago at 42, leaving a wife and four children. Seemingly out of nowhere, a once tireless athlete is crushed by this cruel and mysterious illness, commonly called Lou Gehrig...
...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest’s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest’s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...
...AFTER SPINAL TAP, WHICH WAS DIRECTED BY ROB REINER, HOW DID CHRIS TAKE OVER AS THE DIRECTOR OF THIS TROUPE...
...FOLKSMEN HAVE PLAYED ON THE SAME BILL AS THE KINGSTON TRIO AND PETER, PAUL AND MARY, AND OPENED FOR SPINAL TAP. HOW DO THOSE EXPERIENCES COMPARE...
...Beacon Theater in New York. We didn't put our real names on the bill because we figured, Everybody knows. We get up onstage, and literally about 20 seconds in, they're being really mean and trying to get us off the stage--so we can come back as Spinal...