Watching poor Jamie Lee Curtis endure abject humiliation in the inept and excerable “You Again” (opening tomorrow) at a screening yesterday, I began wondering what her husband, mockumentary genius Sir Christopher Guest, was up to these days.
The answer comes today from our old pal Liz Smith. Per La Liz, his Lordship, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean, who are touring as the immortal Spinal Tap, “are putting their heads together to make a movie about the world of retro collectors; people who ferret out such things as old comic books, Barbie dolls, vintage magazine ads, vinyl 45-rpm singles, or even – ick! – Charles Manson song lyrics written on Kleenex. There’s a massive underground of collectors who would do the Borgia’s proud as they scheme and double-cross to possess the item they crave. (Those who collect movie star memorabilia can be especially treacherous.) The usual suspects are being considered – Michael Patrick Higgins, Jane Lynch (although with her ‘Glee’ fame and schedule, she might be harder to catch now) and Parker Posey.”
Mr. Guest, please find a role for your wife so she doesn’t have to appear in dreck like “You Again” — a PG-rated comedy so wretched that Disney wouldn’t put its own label on it and is instead dumping it on an unsuspecting public under the semi-moribund Touchstone banner. The execs who green-lit this mess were disposed of in a Mouse House purge nearly a year ago.