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31 Jan 02 - 04:38 PM (#639517) Subject: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Ron Olesko This comes from www.billboard.com. Folk music get's Spinal Tapped??
Guest, Levy Sets Their Sights On Folk On the heels of the wildly acclaimed comedies "Best in Show" (2000) and "Waiting for Guffman" (1996), Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy are teaming again to write an as-yet-untitled feature film about the world of folk music that Guest will direct. Shooting will begin in the spring in Los Angeles. Guest, Levy, Harry Shearer and "Best" cast member Michael McKean will write original material for the film, and all four will take roles in the ensemble project. "It deals with three folk acts that get together for a memorial concert at Carnegie Hall because a famous legendary folk manager has died," Guest says. "These acts were active in the '60s but have been out of the business since the early '70s. They must now travel to New York to honor this man who has died and play the concert." "There'll be lots of music and we'll have original songs with everybody actually playing and singing," Guest added. "It'll be the same basic cast you saw in 'Guffman' and 'Best in Show,' with some additional people." Guest, Shearer, and McKean are veterans of Spinal Tap, the English heavy metal group famously spoofed in the 1984 film "This Is Spinal Tap." The group has infrequently slipped back into character for live performances, most recently pairing with Tenacious D in December for a Los Angeles benefit concert. The trio has also had some fun with the folk idiom in the past, having opened some recent Spinal Tap shows dressed up as the Folksmen, a Kingston Trio-ish group that first appeared in 1992 home video "Return of Spinal Tap."
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31 Jan 02 - 05:17 PM (#639549) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: SINSULL Wonder how it will compare to "Songcatcher"? This sounds like fun. Any chance for some of our own local folkies to make cameo appearances? |
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31 Jan 02 - 05:33 PM (#639560) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Ron Olesko I think there will be more laughs in this as opposed to Songcatcher! This should be fun! Ron |
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31 Jan 02 - 05:43 PM (#639567) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Desdemona Oh, *I* don't know...we actually had quite a few laughs during (or was that AT?!) "Songcatcher": "Oh my God---this is the most incredible discovery---I think that traditional English folk songs may have actually made their way across the ocean with the early settlers!! Can you imagine?! Aren't I a GENIUS to have deuced this on my own amongst all these unwashed mountain folk who have such atrocious table manners? Hello?...Hello? Are you there?!..." All joking aside, everything Christopher Guest has done in the above-mentioned genre has been so funny as to be actively painful (and don't leave out "This Is Spinal tap", which goes to 11!), and I'll definitely be looking forward with special interest to this one! |
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31 Jan 02 - 06:13 PM (#639586) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: van lingle i saw the "folksmen" do a bit on tv not long ago, maybe on snl and it was a hoot. they had it nailed. glad to hear of the movie. |
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31 Jan 02 - 06:18 PM (#639589) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: catspaw49 I assume most of us have seen "Spinal Tap" but if you haven't seen "Best in Show" and you have ever watched the WKC show, you need to see it!!! A complete riot. There take on Joe Garagiola was so perfect that I don't think Joe could sue for libel although he might want to! I can see these guys doing Dylanesque etc..........Oh yeah.......This oughta' be good! Spaw |
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31 Jan 02 - 06:21 PM (#639591) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: JudyR Yeah, they are brilliant. "Spinal Tap" was actually a lot funnier to me than "Guffman"... I don't know. After reading the atrocious reviews of "Songcatcher," I decided I couldn't bear to see it. I can't stand wooden acting and self-serious scripts. Besides, the woman who made it has an "agenda." She also (produced? directed? wrote?) "The Ballad of Little Jo," essentially the story of a woman dressing up in man's clothes trying to make it in the old west. Anyway, this new folk music parody sounds a whole lot better. |
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31 Jan 02 - 06:55 PM (#639603) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Desdemona 'Best In Show' was so good in that horrible, Christopher Guest way of making you almost unbearably embarrassed FOR the characters while laughing uncontrollably. The most astonishing thing was that the day after we saw it, we stumbled upon an actual dog show on television, and were absolutely flabbergasted at how spot-on it was, down to every single detail; it just made it that much more brilliant! |
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31 Jan 02 - 07:56 PM (#639640) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: catspaw49 Hey Des, if you have ever seen the Westminister Kennel Club show, generally shown on USA I think, with Joe Garagiola hosting it and making those dumbass comments, you'd have gotten it in one!!! They even picked the right breeds too. The wackyass, neurotic, yuppies with the Weimaraner were perfect. Weims are notoriously low keyed and pretty docile dogs and to get one to attack a judge would require an owner who was in fact a nutcase...as they were!!! The whole movie just cracked me up! Spaw |
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31 Jan 02 - 08:02 PM (#639645) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: DougR I agree with all of you about Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, and Best of Show. I just saw Guffman for the first time a couple of days ago, and was pissed at myself for not having seen it earlier. I have considered renting it several times but I didn't realize until recently it was done by the Spinal Tap, Best of Show gang. I can't wait for the new one! (but I guess I'll have to) DougR |
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31 Jan 02 - 08:09 PM (#639650) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Desdemona I can't wait till September, so I can use my new "Remains of the Day" lunchbox! But I have my "My Dinner With Andre" action figures to keep me busy in tyhe meantime....! Spaw--it WAS the Westminister Kennel Club show, and there was this 150 year old woman who'd been judging dogs since the Taft administration, and it was just toooo much! I'm not an expert on dogs by any stretch of the imagination, but figured that Weimaraners must be fairly mellow, based on all those William Wegman books my kids used to love looking at! |
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31 Jan 02 - 08:10 PM (#639651) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: michaelr This should be hilarious. I love all the aforementioned films, plus Chris Guest's work in "The Princess Bride". I wonder what they'll call it!? Michael |
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31 Jan 02 - 08:13 PM (#639652) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: catspaw49 Des.........Click Here Spaw |
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01 Feb 02 - 10:24 PM (#640371) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Desdemona Spaw---oooooh, lovely dogface boy (I mean the Weimaraner)! Have you considered dressing him up in a tuxedo? I think he'd make an excellent 007! Have you always had Weimaraners? How are they with your (rather lively, I've deduced from context clues) boys? |
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01 Feb 02 - 10:59 PM (#640394) Subject: RE: Coming soon... Folk music movie From: Rick Fielding "My Dinner with Andre" action figures! To me that totally sums up the Christopher Guest sense of humour. I find that years after seeing Spinal Tap, Guffman, and now Best In Show....all I have to do is think back and I start laughing. Glad you saw it Doug. Rick |