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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...
...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 Tap...
...them are using slow-as-mud 56K modems via standard phone lines. The advantage of untethering office workers is relatively unproved (Won't they just instant message one another during meetings?), but even the most technophobic CEO can imagine the benefit of her top salesman's being able to tap into the database minutes before he sits down with a client--and place his order immediately afterward. "Intuitively, I felt there was going to be a market for this in the business community," says Ted Schell, a venture capitalist with Apax Partners in New York City, one of the backers...