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Christopher Guest’s Death Wish

By Mark | January 14, 2014

This evening, while researching something completely unrelated, I discovered an interesting little fact about filmmaker Christopher Guest that I wanted to share. A decade before starring in This Is Spinal Tap, and setting in motion a chain of events that would make him the mockumentary auteur he is today, he starred opposite Charles Bronson in […]

Posted in Art and Culture | Also tagged 1974, acting, actors playing cops, Baron Haden-Guest, barons, Bill Murray, casting, CBS, Charles Bronson, Christopher Guest, Columbo, England, House of Lords, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jean Pauline Hindes, mockumentary, National Lampoon, National Lampoon Radio Hour, peerage, police, revenge porn, Spinal Tap, The Hot Rock, United Nations | 8 Comments

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