McKean

/ məˈkiːn /

noun

1. Tom. born 1963, Scottish athlete: European 800 metres gold medallist (1990)

Example Sentences

Messrs. Guest, McKean and Shearer prepared for filming by donning “full hair and wardrobe” at actual gigs.

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When the public turned out for Spinal Tap on tour, Mr. McKean says, “we were pretending to be a real band and they were pretending to be our real fans.”

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Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director Rob Reiner, “Spinal Tap” was born.

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Not that the sight, 40 years on, of the sweetly clueless Tufnel, McKean’s prickly frontman David St. Hubbins and Shearer’s man-of-few-blurts Derek Smalls reuniting for one last concert won’t trigger a low-wattage 83-minute-long smile.

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The actress and producer is married to Christopher Guest, writer and actor in the 1984 film, This is Spinal Tap, and also the upcoming sequel, which also stars Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.

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