Word: shearer
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...through school and now have more disposable income than our grandchildren. Pop culture has made us vain enough to think we?re still young; medical science has convinced us we?re never going to die. We rent loads of movies, know how to operate a computer and (as Harry Shearer pointed out in an excellent New York Times article) are more likely to pay for our CDs than download them. So we?re not about to retire to our front-porch rockers...
...Last spring, Josh Tyrangiel and I had lunch with Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and Eugene Levy, four creators of our favorite 60s-style folk-song improv documentary comedy ?A Mighty Wind.? I can say the interview, which TIME.com published in its extended form, is laugh-out-loud funny because I just reread it and laughed out loud quite often. Treat yourself and read it. No, let us treat you. The interview is on our website...
...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...
...depressingly uplifting "neuftet" New Main Street Singers (with John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch and Parker Posey) and the duo Mitch & Mickey (Levy and Catherine O'Hara)--persist in believing, as show people must, that they somehow mattered. And still do. "To do 'then' now is retro," Folksman Harry Shearer insists. "To do 'then' then was very...
There is certainly room to quibble over some of Langewiesche’s interpretations, as Rhonda Roland Shearer, the widow of the late Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould, has attempted, with some success. While she has provided alternative interpretations of the facts, she has not proven Langewiesche wrong on his most controversial findings, including the case of alleged looting...