“The review you had on Shark Sandwich, which was merely a two word review, just said ‘Shit Sandwich.’” “Where’d they print that? That’s not real. They can’t print that!” No, it’s not as bad as Shark Sandwich. Let’s accentuate the positive here. When you’re a die-hard fan of a band, …
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“I promise you, after I burn,” Derek Smalls growls on Spinal Tap’s new song, “that I’m gonna be rockin’/ In the urn.” Harry Shearer, who plays Smalls and wrote the song, says the idea was simple: “I just thought it was the silliest way to say, ‘We’re never gonna die. …
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As we learn in 1984’s This Is Spinal Tap, money talks, bullshit walks, and Fran Drescher will always dominate any scene in which she finds herself. Nine years before her ascension to TV superstardom with The Nanny, a 26-year-old Drescher was unforgettable as Polymer Records label publicist Bobbi Flekman, a …
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