Michael McKean
This is for the Birds
By Michele Wojciechowski on July 22, 2021
I grew up in Baltimore City, and my exposure to wildlife in terms of birds was either pigeons, Tweety Bird from the Warner Brothers’ cartoons, or Big Bird on Sesame Street—and he doesn’t even fly! When my husband and I moved to our dream home more than a decade ago, we got all “birded out.” […]
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Podcast: This is Spinal Tap (1984)
By Michele Wojciechowski on September 22, 2020
In this episode of the Yippee-Ki-Yay Mother Podcast, we discuss Brad’s pick, the 1984 classic “mocumentry” “This is Spinal Tap.” Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer, who with Reiner wrote the “script”. This is a completely improvised rockumentry about the loudest English metal band touring the US. It […]
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