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8 Unsung Heroes Of Spinal Tap

They're not in the band, but they make the movie...

BY Andy Lowe Sep 9th 2009 // 8:08AM FILED UNDER: Features

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8Goggle-Eyed Concierge

On the 25th anniversary of Rob Reiner's rockumentary (if you will), we salute the unsung heroes of the movie - the side characters who don't take centre-stage but play a major part in lubricating the laughs...

First up, this bottle bottom-bespectacled "twisted old fruit" painfully illustrates the slow crumbling of the band's rock 'n roll fantasy world.

Tap manager Ian Faith's anger at the clerk's reluctance to supply multi-suite luxury exposes his biggest fear - that his charges' appeal is "becoming more selective".

Mr Swimmy-Eyes offers a helpful dose of reality in response to Faith's slur: "I'm just as God made me, sir!"

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