  &emailalert=no&email=adgrant@indiana.edu&url=http://closeproximity.blogspot.com&name=Proximity&bgcolor=003399&fcolor=FFFFFF&link=FFFFCC&words=comments&title=Comments &width=350&height=350"> I watched This is Spinal Tap again this weekend and it rekindled my absolute and undying love for Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, and of course Michael McKean. I listened to a few interviews with Shearer and Guest on the NPR archives...so funny. They are probably the most talented people in show business, as they are writers, actors, directors AND musicians and songwriters. Guest said that Parker Posey learned the manodlin for A Mighty Wind and Catherine O'Hara learned the "Autoharp" (thats an instrument I could see Katie playing, no? ) and that Eugene Levy hadn't played a guitar in 30 years so he had to re-learn. In the concert sequences, they are really playing. I can't get over how cool that is. Harry Shearer, who is also the voice of many Simpsons characters (including Mr. Burns AND Smithers, which i think is funny) has website, urlLink Harry Shearer .
On there you can find out about his radio show "Le Show," which is in its 19th year on public radio. He hosts it and does political and social commentary every week. How much would I love to have that job!!! On the site there is a link to "found objects" which include sound bytes of like Sam Donaldson and Diane Sawyer trying to ad lib with each other for the first episode of whatever show they have. There are also many with Dan Rather acting like a nut. One piece has him discussing his hair while on location in Soweto. I guess when you're in post-apartheid S.Africa you just want to make sure you never become uncoiffed. 
