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"Bob Balaban - Jonathan Steinbloom"
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A Mighty Wind"You know, 35 years ago, preparing for a concert meant playing "find the cobra" with the hotel chambermaid."
A Mighty Wind is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. Co-written, directed, and composed by Christopher Guest, the film is widely acknowledged to reference folk music producer Harold Leventhal as the inspiration for the character of Irving Steinbloom and more broadly
"Bob Balaban - Jonathan Steinbloom"
"Why didnt somebody follow him? Is there a cockfight arena near here?"
"Before we begin tonights performance I would like to make a brief announcement. Id like to warn you that some of the floral arrangements at tonights performance have dangerously low hanging vines and may be poisonous. So please, whatever you do, dont eat em and dont become entangled in them or trip, please."
"(referring to his mother) You could say she was overly protective - I just like to think she cared about me, which she did, a lot. And I was a member of the chess team and whenever we would have chess tournaments I had to wear a protective helmet, I had to wear a football helmet. Now who knows what she was thinking? Maybe she thought that we might have fallen maybe and impaled our heads on a pointy bishop or something, I dont know."
"Seeing these long lines of fans who want nothing more than to have you sign an autograph, its like its 1968... Or 67... Or 66."
"To paraphrase an old joke... Knock, knock. Whos there? Its the New Main Street Singers!"