Where Are They Now - Friday, February 26, 2016

Hello fans,

It looks like many of you would like to find out what is going on with actor Christopher Guest this week. You may know Guest for having written, directed and starred in a series of comedy films

shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style, beginning with This Is Spinal Tap. Learn more about Guest and what he is doing now...

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Melissa

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--DEAD OR ALIVE?--
See if you know if the following celebrities have had a visit from the "Grim Reaper":

Richard Mulligan: Starred in the TV series "Soap" and "Empty Nest"

Eileen Brennan: She played Genevieve in the movie "The Last Picture Show" and Capt. Doreen Lewis in "Private Benjamin", she has also appeared in "The Sting", "Murder By Death" and many other movies

Corey Haim: He starred in "Lucas", "The Lost Boys" and other movies and was known for is association with the other 1980s teen star named Corey, Corey Feldman, who he appeared with in a reality show

(Answer at the bottom)
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Christopher Guest
Learn More About Christopher Guest on Celebrity Nooz

BIRTH DATE: February 5, 1948, New York City

CLAIM TO FAME: He is known for such films as This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride.

FAMILY LIFE: Guest is married to well-known actress Jamie Lee Curtis with two children, Annie Guest and Thomas.

INFO: Guest received his dramatic arts training at New York City's High School of Arts and Music and at Bard College, and first appeared in minor film roles including The Hot Rock (1972), Death Wish (1974), Lemmings (1973), and The Long Riders (1980).

However, he was also dabbling in writing for several T.V. shows, and when filming Million Dollar Infield (1982), Guest became acquainted with writer-director Rob Reiner and the two collaborated, along with Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, to pen the script and music for the sleeper hit This Is Spinal Tap (1984).

In the 1980s, Guest was a regular performer on Saturday Night Live (1975) and, along with fellow Spinal Tap band members lead singer David St. Hubbins, aka Michael McKean; and bassist Derek Smalls, aka Harry Shearer, they regularly appeared as Spinal Tap.

He played high-strung choreographer Corky St. Clair in the humorous Waiting for Guffman (1996). He made a return to heavy metal with Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (1998) and Catching Up with Marty DiBergi (2000) before turning his creating the sensational comedy Best in Show (2000).

TRIVIA: Became the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996.

Older brother of actor Nicholas Guest, who is heir presumptive to the family title. (As Christopher's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the barony).

Half-brother of journalist Anthony Haden-Guest, the bibulous English socialite and journalist satirized by 'Tom Wolfe' in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

When a publicity photo of Guest and his co-stars from This Is Spinal Tap (1984) ran in Rolling Stone magazine, Jamie Lee Curtis saw the picture, fell in love and gave her phone number to Guest's agent. They dated and eventually married.

Brother-in-law of actress Kelly Curtis and Pamela Guest.

Son-in-law of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.

WHERE IS HE NOW: Guest holds an honorary doctorate from and is a member of the board of trustees for Berklee College of Music in Boston.

He was most recently the writer and producer of the HBO series, Family Tree, a lighthearted story in the style he made famous in Spinal Tap, in which the main character, Tom Chadwick, inherits a box of curios from his great aunt, spurring interest in his ancestry.

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CREDITS:
2013 Family Tree (TV Series)...Dave Chadwick / Phineas Chadwick

2009 Spinal Tap: Back from the Dead (Video)...Nigel Tufnel

2009 Stonehenge: 'Tis a Magic Place (Short)...Nigel Tufnel

2009 The Invention of Lying...Nathan Goldfrappe

2000-2009 The Daily Show (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel

2009 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode #1.86 (2009)

2009 Glastonbury 2009 (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel (as Spinal Tap)

2007-2009 Channel 4 News (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 25 June 2009 (2009)
- Episode dated 5 July 2007 (2007)

2009 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode #1.11 (2009)

2009 Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian...Ivan the Terrible

2009 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 1 May 2009 (2009)

2007 SpongeBob SquarePants (TV Series)...Stanley S. SquarePants
- Banned in Bikini Bottom/Stanley S. SquarePants (2007)

2007 CNN Newsroom (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 7 July 2007 (2007)

2007 Breakfast (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 5 July 2007 (2007)

2006 The Harry Smith Project Live (Video)...Alan Barrows

2006 For Your Consideration...Jay Berman

2005 Mrs Henderson Presents...Lord Cromer

2003 Just for Laughs (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 23 November 2003 (2003)
- Episode dated 19 October 2003 (2003)

2003 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series)...Alan Barrows
- Episode #11.6 (2003)

2003 MADtv (TV Series)...Alan Barrows
- Episode #8.21 (2003)

2003 The View (TV Series)...Alan Barrows
- Episode dated 10 April 2003 (2003)

2000-2003 Late Show with David Letterman (TV Series)...Alan Barrows / Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 8 April 2003 (2003)
- Episode dated 7 September 2000 (2000)

2003 A Mighty Wind....Alan Barrows

2001 Just for Laughs: Montreal Comedy Festival (TV Movie)...Nigel Tufnel (2001) (2003)

2000 Catching Up with Marty DiBergi (Video short)...Nigel Tufnel

2000 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode #8.267 (2000)

2000 Best in Show...Harlan Pepper

2000 The Early Show (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 8 September 2000 (2000)

2000 The List (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 22 June 2000 (2000)

1999 D.O.A. (TV Movie)

1999 Dilbert (TV Series)...The Dupey
- The Dupey (1999)

1998 Small Soldiers...Slamfist / Scratch-It (voice)

1998 Spinal Tap: The Final Tour (Video short)...Nigel Tufnel

1996 Waiting for Guffman...Corky St. Clair

1993 Animaniacs (TV Series)...Umlatt
- King Yakko (1993)

1993 Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes (Video)...Nigel Tufnel

1992 A Spinal Tap Reunion: The 25th Anniversary London Sell-Out (TV Movie)...Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap) / Alan Barrows (The Folksmen)

1992 Spinal Tap: Break Like the Wind - The Videos (Video short)...Nigel Tufnel (as Nigel Tufnel)

1992 The Arsenio Hall Show (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 17 December 1992 (1992)
- Episode dated 18 May 1992 (1992)

1992 A Few Good Men...Dr. Stone

1992 Halloween Jam at Universal Studios (TV Movie)...Nigel Tufnel

1992 A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica (Video documentary)...Nigel Tufnel

1992 American Bandstand's 40th Anniversary Special (TV Movie)
Nigel Tufnel - Member of Spinal Tap (uncredited... 1992 Fox News (TV Series)
Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 23 April 1992 (1992) ... Nigel Tufnel

1992 The Simpsons (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- The Otto Show (1992)

1992 Tonight with Jonathan Ross (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 8 April 1992 (1992)
- Episode dated 27 March 1992 (1992)

1992 Good Morning America (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 30 March 1992 (1992)

1992 Headbangers Ball (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel - Host
- Episode dated 28 March 1992 (1992)

1992 Rockline on MTV (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 23 March 1992 (1992)

1991 Amnesty International's Big 30 (TV Movie)...Nigel Tufnel

1991 MTV News: The Week in Rock (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 11 October 1991 (1991)

1991 Morton & Hayes (TV Series)...El Supremo / Crooner / Dr. Von Astor

1990 Hard 'N Heavy Volume 8 (Video documentary)...Nigel Tufnel - Spinal Tap

1990 Partners in Life (TV Movie)...El Supremo

1989 I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood (TV Movie)...Antoninus DiMentabella

1989 Billy Crystal: Midnight Train to Moscow (TV Movie)...The Voice

1988 Sticky Fingers...Sam

1987 The Princess Bride...Count Tyrone Rugen

1987 Beyond Therapy...Bob

1986 Little Shop of Horrors...The First Customer

1985 Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas (TV Movie)...Rajiv Vindaloo

1984-1985 Saturday Night Live (TV Series)...Various / Saturday Night News Anchor / Frank Lubar / ...

1985 True Confessions (TV Series)
- Bad Stuff (1985)

1984 This Is Spinal Tap...Nigel Tufnel

1984 The Joe Franklin Show (TV Series)...Nigel Tufnel
- Episode dated 1 February 1984 (1984)

1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 3 (TV Series)...Frankie

1983 Close Ties (TV Movie)...Ira

1982 St. Elsewhere (TV Series)...H.J. Cummings

1982 A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (TV Movie)...Philip Ryan

1982 Million Dollar Infield (TV Movie)...Bucky Frische

1981 Heartbeeps...Calvin

1981 Likely Stories, Vol. 1 (TV Movie)

1980 B.C. Rock...No Lobes (English version, voice)

1980 The Long Riders...Charlie Ford

1980 Haywire (TV Movie)...The T.V. Director

1979 The Last Word...Roger

1979 The T.V. Show (TV Movie)...Various Characters

1979 Blind Ambition (TV Mini-Series)...Jeb Stuart Magruder
- Part I (1979)

1979 The Chevy Chase National Humor Test (TV Movie)...Various (uncredited)

1978 Girlfriends...Eric

1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble

1978 Laverne & Shirley (TV Series)...Greg Harris
- Bus Stop (1978)

1977 All in the Family (TV Series)...Jim
- Mike and Gloria Meet (1977)

1977 It Happened One Christmas (TV Movie)...Harry Bailey

1977 The Andros Targets (TV Series)...Gordon Hamilton
- A Currency for Murder (1977)

1976 The TVTV Show (TV Movie)...Various

1975 Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (TV Series)...Various

1975 Shame of the Jungle...Chief M'Bulu / Short / Nurse (English version, voice)

1975 The Lily Tomlin Special (TV Movie)...Various

1975 The Fortune...Boy Lover

1974 Death Wish...Patrolman Reilly

1972 The Hot Rock...Policeman

1971 The Hospital...Resident (uncredited)


To see Then & Now pictures of Christopher Guest, visit:
Learn More About Christopher Guest on Celebrity Nooz

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--Answers to DEAD OR ALIVE--
Richard Mulligan - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 11/13/1932 Died: 09/26/2000

Eileen Brennan - DEAD (Cancer)
Born: 09/03/1935 Died: 07/28/2013

Corey Haim - DEAD (Pneumonia)
Born: 12/23/1971 Died: 03/10/2010


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WHO PASSED ON THIS WEEK...
2/24
AKN Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi banker and diplomat, Ambassador to Japan and South Korea, stroke.
Ryszard Bender, 84, Polish politician and historian, Senator (2007-2011).
Peter van der Merwe (nl), 74, Dutch footballer.
Yordan Sokolov, 83, Bulgarian politician, Chairperson of the National Assembly (1997-2001).
Timber Country, 24, American racehorse.

2/23
Ramon Castro Ruz, 91, Cuban farmer and quartermaster (Cuban Revolution).
Harry Jay Katz, 75, American businessman.
Peter Lustig, 78, German television presenter and author.
Luis Alberto Machado, 84, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
Johnny Murphy, 72, Irish musician and actor (The Commitments, Into the West, Angela's Ashes), respiratory failure.

2/22
John Caldwell, 69, American comic strip artist and cartoonist (Mad), pancreatic cancer.
Barbara M. Clark, 76, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (since 1987).
Wesley A. Clark, 88, American computer engineer (LINC).
Sir Tony Durant, 88, British politician, MP (1974-1997).
Steve Harris, 52, American basketball player (Houston Rockets, Columbus Horizon).
Sonny James, 87, American country singer-songwriter ("Young Love").
Cara McCollum, 24, American journalist and beauty queen, Miss New Jersey (2013), traffic collision.
Hans Reffert, 69, German musician and composer.
Douglas Slocombe, 103, British cinematographer (Indiana Jones, The Lion in Winter, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications from a fall.
Yochanan Sofer, 93, Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi, Rebbe of Erlau, pneumonia.

2/21
Maria Luisa Alcala, 72, Mexican actress (El Chavo del Ocho, Dr. Candido Parez, Esmeralda).
Akbar Ali, 90, Indian Kannada poet.
Pascal Bentoiu, 88, Romanian composer.
Eric Brown, 97, British test pilot.
Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley, 85, British peer.
Chu Qing, 92, Chinese politician.
Jean-Pierre Detremmerie (fr), 75, Belgian politician.
David Duffield, 84, British sports commentator and cyclist, fall.
Piotr Grudzinski (pl), 40, Polish guitarist (Riverside).
Peter Marlow, 63, British news photographer.
Claude Michaud (fr), 77, Canadian actor.
Kalanidhi Narayanan, 87, Indian classical dancer.
Miroslav Nemirov, 54, Russian poet, cancer.
Don Owen, 84, Canadian film director (The Ernie Game).
Debbie Smith, 60, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (since 2012).

2/20
Pia Bech Mathiesen, 54, Danish designer and businesswoman, cancer.
Fernando Cardenal, 82, Nicaraguan priest and politician, Minister of Education (1984-1990).
Moises Dagdug Lutzow, 65, Mexican politician.
Ole Erling (dk), 77, Danish musician.
Ove Verner Hansen, 83, Danish actor and opera singer, heart attack.
Kim Seong-jip, 97, South Korean weightlifter, Olympic
bronze medalist (1948, 1952) and Asian Games champion (1954).
Mike McCoy, 62, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
Peter Mondavi, 101, American wine producing pioneer.
Muhamed Mujic, 82, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer.
Dave Needle, American computer engineer.
Jon Rollason, 84, British actor (The Avengers, Coronation Street, Doctor Who).
Pradeep Shakti, 60, Indian actor and restaurateur.
Xie Jialin (zh), 95, Chinese physicist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
Nando Yosu, 76, Spanish football player and manager (Racing de Santander), Alzheimer's disease.

2/19
Tamerlan Aguzarov, 52, Russian politician, Head of
North Ossetia-Alania (since 2015), complications from pneumonia.
Harald Devold, 51, Norwegian jazz musician, cancer.
Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, Numero Zero), pancreatic cancer.
Freddie Goodwin, 82, English football player (Manchester United, Leeds) and manager (Birmingham).
Harper Lee, 89, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird).
Chiaki Morosawa, 56, Japanese anime screenwriter (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED), aortic dissection.
Vi Subversa, 80, British musician (Poison Girls).
Mutsuo Tahara, 72, Japanese judge.
Samuel Willenberg, 93, Polish-born Israeli sculptor and painter, last survivor of the Treblinka extermination camp.
Bruno Zuppiger, 63, Swiss politician.

2/18
Victorico Chaves, 83, Filipino sports administrator and politician.
Harold C. Conklin, 89, American anthropologist.
Jim Davenport, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), heart failure.
Rosario Ferre, 77, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist, First Lady (1970-1972).
Paul Gordon, 52, American musician (New Radicals, The B-52's).
Brendan Healy, 59, English actor and musician, cancer.
Abdul Rashid Khan, 107, Indian Hindustani musician.
Brock Little, 48, American surfer and stuntman (Transformers, Godzilla, John from Cincinnati), cancer.
Johnny Miller, 65, English footballer (Ipswich).
Tom Mullica, 67, American comedy magician.
Cherussery Zainuddeen Musliyar, 78, Indian religious scholar.
Pantelis Pantelidis, 32, Greek singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
Angela Raiola, 55, American television personality (Mob Wives, Big Ang), lung and throat cancer.
John Reinhardt, 95, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Nigeria (1971-1975).
Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor.
Giorgio Tinazzi, 81, Italian footballer.
Yuko Tsushima, 68, Japanese author.
Arumugam Vijiaratnam, 94, Singaporean athlete.