A friend, known as Darko (1), commented on the release of Christopher Guest’s Best in Show in 2000, ‘He hates his characters.’ At the time, and for years hence, it has proved a most astute observation of Guest. Guest’s mockumentary’s do betray a misanthrope intent (and content) on sitting at the cafe and pointing out the faults in all the ‘types’ passing through.
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* Prompt from F. Scott Fitzgerald story contest from McSweeney’s magazine: A man hates to be a prince, goes to Hollywood and has to play nothing but princes. Or a general—the same.
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In March 1970, after recording Déjà Vu with CSNY, Neil Young grabbed Crazy Horse and played two shows at the Fillmore East, the “church of rock and roll,” in Manhattan’s East Village. At forty-three minutes, Live at the Fillmore East gleans six songs from the two shows that are as grandiose in their execution as watching Michael Jordan play basketball or the ecstasy in JFK’s voice declaring, “We will go to the moon!”
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