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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...
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...
...three is Mitch and Mickey, a hopelessly maudlin duo played by Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, who sports one of the more grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding out the collection are the New Main Street Singers, whose leaders practice some sort...
HARVARD DANCE PROGRAM. The Dance Program of the Office for the Arts at Harvard presents ”Dancer’s Viewpointe III,” the third installment of an annual series under the direction of Elizabeth Bergmann. Jazz, ballet, tap and modern dance all feature in these works by student and professional choreographers, performed by an ensemble of solely Harvard students. Friday, April 11 and Saturday, April 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets $10, $5 for students and seniors, available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Radcliffe Yard...