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In case you haven’t seen this, the shadow prime minister of California has re-teamed with the Guest-McKean-Shearer core of Spinal Tap for the first time since 1984–in the cause of July 7’s Live Earth concert. The 15-minute short gets progressively funnier as it goes along, especially once Derek Smalls enters the picture. But what’s remarkable is how unremarkable the fly-on-the-wall freakshow format seems now. As inventive and absurdist as Rob Reiner and co. are, their characters are actually less outré than the real-life inhabitants of VH1’s “Celebreality” programming. For proof, look no further than the Vixen episode of Bands Reunited. May 10, 2007 More Rock Snobbery »
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Broadbent, Michael. Droll, prolific, trilby-wearing British wine writer of John Gielgud-ish mien and imposing stature, having long served as the head of the wine department at Christie’s and having written the most authoritative books on vintage wines. Adored by Snobs for the voluminous handwritten notes he has kept in red, schoolboy-style exercise books since the 1950s and for his utter lack of concession to the mores of the ROBERT PARKER era—in a typically Broadbentian utterance, he has decreed that today’s “supermarket wines… are for drinking, not for writing about.”