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Christopher Guest doesn't do funny. At least, he doesn't do it often. His directing filmography is sparse - he's only racked up nine projects in the past two decades.

Paul Shaffer is a happenin' cat. Pick an It Moment from pop culture over the past 30 years and Shaffer was there.

Perhaps it has something to do with the owners' previous lives, but we've heard that the wine-and-dessert bar Room 11 is quite popular among the city's musician set.

Canadian musician Paul Shaffer has just published a memoir, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Showbiz Saga.

The guy behind Seymour Skinner, Spinal Tap and the Folksmen is coming to Richmond.

Michael McKean has had more good hair days than most actors. He shot to stardom as greaser doofus Lenny on the '70s TV favorite "Laverne and Shirley." In the '80s, he donned a blond shag wig and became a cult hero as a stoned rockers in "This Is Spinal Tap." Now he's sporting a ponytail and a beard to play Arthur, the withdrawn owner of a Chicago ...

''I didn't expect it'' budding star Callan McAuliffe with his mother Claudia Keech in Clontarf.

Sometimes it is just one movie that makes an actor or actress memorable. Heck, sometimes it is just one scene.

Since coming out of the North Texas State University One O'Clock Lab Band, Bissonette has worked steadily across a number of genres, from jazz with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson to rock with David Lee Roth.

Picture an unlikely hybrid of the mockumentary goofiness popularized by Christopher Guest with works like "This Is Spinal Tap" and "Best in Show" and the call-to-action imperative of a Discovery Channel documentary.

Images of TV talking heads in candid and sometimes-awkward silence form the basis of a new video installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts.

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At fourteen, they made a pact to rock together forever. They meant it. Anvil! is a documentary about a long-running heavy metal band struggling to earn recognition and respect while still slaving away at grueling day jobs and dud concerts.

'Anvil: The Story of Anvil' NOT RATED, $24.98 The riveting documentary, about a couple of old Canadian headbangers still chasing the heavy-metal dream, resembles a reality-based version of the Rob Reiner "mockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap .

The Broward Folk Club will ring in another year of membership Sunday at Cinema Paradiso.

Jon Michael Hill & Michael McKean in 'Superior Donuts'. Overview You can view doughnuts simply as sweet treats, but look closer and you'll see they resemble little life preservers.

Yup, Paul will be a guest on next week's "Late Show." On Oct. 6 to be exact. Reason: His new book's out.

'm 61. I'm not a guy who's waiting for his big break,' Michael McKean says with a laugh.

Subtitles: Danish, French, German, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish French, German Special Features: Brand new 25th Anniversary Documentary Audio & menu commentaries by the band The Return of Spinal Tap -Royal Albert Hall concert 2007 Live Earth footage & Live Earth reunion short film National Geographic Stonehenge interviews with Nigel Sprinkle some ...

Along for the ride is film-maker and fan Marti DiBergi , there to make a behind-the-scenes tribute to his favourite heavy metal band.