Documentary filmmaker Heather Ross -- whose new project For Madmen Only: The Stories Of Del Close is newly available on VOD -- shares her love of Christopher Guest's first improvised feature, Waiting For Guffman. Your genial host Norm Wilner is happy to yes-and this suggestion.
Documentary filmmaker Heather Ross , whose new project For Madmen Only: The Stories Of Del Close is newly available on VOD, celebrates Christopher Guest's 1996 feature Waiting For Guffman -- in which the actor and filmmaker recruited Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban and another half-dozen very funny people to make up a story about some amateur theater performers celebrating the sesquicentennial of a small Missouri town. And once you've listened to this episode, you might want to check out Andy Kindler on Guest's earlier comedy The Big Picture.