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	Like A Mighty Wind
		On that day of Pentecost, as the Holy Spirit moved 'like a mighty wind' through the early Christian community, lives changed in an instant.
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	Columbus Alive Article: Mighty Wind (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Winds designated as class three or higher (about 13 miles per hour) are needed to make wind power profitable, and the latest wind maps, which were produced 10 to 15 years ago, show that most of Ohio is well below that mark.
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	www.greenenergyohio.org /page.cfm?pageID=114 (1129 words)

	A Mighty Wind (2003)
		Wind opens with a news report about the death of folk record mogul Irving Steinbloom.
		Wind marks Guest’s fourth film in this genre, and his third as a director.
		A Mighty Wind appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /mightywind.shtml (2591 words)

	A Mighty Wind
		If the interest in the solar class is any indication, wind instruction will prove just as popular as the solar courses to journey-level electricians burnishing their credentials.
		Texas will require 2,000 megawatts of its electricity be generated by renewables by 2009, New York mandated the increased use of renewables from 17 percent of the state’s electricity to 25 percent by 2012 and California aims to produce 20 percent of its electricity from renewable resources by 2017.
		From 2000 to 2004, wind energy increased 24 percent annually, representing one of the fastest-growing energy sources in the United States.
	www.ibew.org /articles/05journal/0509/p14_windmill.htm (1470 words)

	USATODAY.com - Parody team stirs up 'A Mighty Wind' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the spotlight are three groups of pre-Beatles '60s troubadours who reunite for a memorial concert: the chirpy New Main Street Singers (led by Jane Lynch and John Michael Higgins), the over-earnest Folksmen (Guest, Harry Shearer and Michael McKean) and long-estranged folk sweethearts Mitch and Mickey (Levy and Catherine O'Hara).
		Wind also requires the actors, many of whom composed the film's subversively authentic-sounding songs, to sing and play to a live audience.
		But in the lyrics there is a reference to a flame lighting up a mighty wind.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2003-04-13-mighty-wind_x.htm (719 words)

	A Mighty Wind. Review
		A Mighty Wind casts its comedic net around a series of past-their-prime folk artists and reels them in towards a climactic reunion concert, in honor of their shared manager who has passed from this mortal coil.
		Wind shifts the dynamic again: The true heart of this folk comedy is in the pairing of Eugene Levy and Catherine O' Hara as former lovers Mitch and Mickey, a folk duo sensation.
		While she was nearly as terrific in Waiting For Guffman (her monologue on film acting in that small town theater parody is nothing short of genius) A Mighty Wind could arguably be considered the pinnacle of her career.
	www.thefilmexperience.net /Reviews/amightywind.html (906 words)

	A Mighty Wind
		Well, as Guest has defined it through these three films, it is a style of filmmaking that allows jokes to be told with the utmost sincerity and for the humor of the characters to trump, in many cases, traditional punch lines or comedic situations.
		If someone without a sense of humor approached the film, they would think that “A Mighty Wind” is literally the story of a reunion concert, being thrown to honor a dead music producer, and the numerous music personalities who show up for the tribute.
		In “A Mighty Wind,” during the film’s mid-section, there is little occurring.
	movies.zertinet.com /2003/amightywind.htm (847 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - A Mighty Wind (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although Wind doesn’t have the snappy riotous nature or extreme nutty outrageousness as its ribald rock-n-roll counterpart This Is Spinal Tap, this shrewdly funny pseudo-documentary still manages to examine a different kind of musician and how their personalities and philosophies play a significant part in the chaotic microcosm of their so-called sensationalized world.
		A Mighty Wind is effectively challenging in its ability to be subtly scathing in its backhand merriment while possessing a sense of poignancy about delightfully damaged individuals and the skin they’ve traveled in throughout the topsy-turvy existence they’re forced to live in with disdain and disillusionment.
		Poking fun at the folk music craze and its self-righteous leanings in A Mighty Wind is almost the equally wicked revelation of skewering the blatant excesses of banal hard rock hair bands as witnessed in the aforementioned sharp-tongued This Is Spinal Tap.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2003/mightywind.htm (1122 words)

	Gorilla Pants Review - A Mighty Wind (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Mighty Wind is the latest mockumentary from the people who brought us Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show.
		In the case of A Mighty Wind, that event is a folk music concert reuniting three legendary groups to pay tribute to the recently deceased music executive who gave them their starts.
		For all Wind's lapses, I keep thinking about different scenes and giggling, which is one of the hallmarks of a good comedy, so I'm recommending it.
	www.gorillapants.com /mightywind.shtml (583 words)

	Mighty Wind, A (2003): Reviews
		The triumph of A Mighty Wind is that it makes an audience love the sing-along catchiness of folk and still break up at its banalities.
		I laughed myself silly through most of A Mighty Wind, and was pleasantly surprised when it took a turn toward genuine feeling near the end.
		A Mighty Wind is good for an occasional laugh but you're not likely to be blown away.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/mightywind (1309 words)

	Michael McKean: A Mighty Wind - Movie
		Perhaps the ultimate "Mockumentary", "Wind" tells the story of the battered tragicomic lives of several (fictitious) 1960's-era Folk-music acts.
		"Mighty" excels because of its light touch, managing to extract both humor and emotion from its unsympathetic subjects.
		The magic of "Mighty" is how it manages to be both funny and touching at the same time, culminating in the aftermath of the Steinbloom tribute, which is both funny and sad.
	www.superiorpics.com /michael_mckean/movie/2003_a_mighty_wind.html (684 words)

	A Mighty Wind
		Following the efforts of grieving son Jonathan Steinbloom (Bob Balaban) to reunite the folk acts represented by his late father Irving for a tribute concert to be broadcast on public television, the picture is essentially an outline fleshed-out through a bunch of improvisations tied loosely together by largely disconnected vignettes.
		Free, for the most part, of the cheap shots of Best in Show, A Mighty Wind's failures are again a cartoonish turn by Eugene Levy and a healthy dose of sentiment that goes down suspiciously like arrogance.
		Where the picture works is in its understanding that folk music, for a time, was meant to change the world: A Mighty Wind captures the deflated idealism of the movement--hijacked by corporate interests and fame--in the lingering hint of pre-hippie delusions of self-importance.
	filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/mightywind.htm (409 words)

	A Mighty Wind (2003): Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara - PopMatters Film Review
		However, while the performances in A Mighty Wind may temporarily redeem the character's neuroses and failings, the film also erases folk music's history of social protest and political critique.
		The big public moment in A Mighty Wind is a concert in New York City's Town Hall in honor of recently departed folk promoter Irving Steinbloom (Stuart Luce).
		The domestic and political tensions of the decade are largely ignored in favor an idealized vision of the music, the performances, and the eccentricities of the characters.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/mighty-wind.shtml (1224 words)

	A Mighty Wind (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nevertheless, he shares with Belushi - and many of their contemporaries, who came from one or another branch of the Second City organization - a certain fondness for off-the-wall elements in his work; Guest's tend to be slipped in, quietly, while Belushi's popped out of exploding cakes.
		A MIGHTY WIND is a spot-on satire of the American Folk Music movement of the early and mid-1960s.
		The narrative conceit is a memorial concert for a recently deceased impressario, organized by his son, which reunites three folk groups from the 60s.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0310281 (933 words)

	A Mighty Wind blows in surprising directions
		A Mighty Wind tells the story of three long past their prime folk groups who have gotten together for a PBS special on the ocassion of the death of their old label president.
		A Mighty Wind is a real movie, with three dimensional characters with souls who are changed by their experiences here.
		As we wind down to the end of this consideration, one thing did bug me.
	www.morethings.com /fan/a_mighty_wind.htm (1123 words)

	Austin 360 Movies: 'A Mighty Wind' Reviews -- American-Statesman
		As distasteful as it is to say, Guest's fondness for this assemblage of idealists and airheads dilutes the bite of his earlier films, where audiences came to like characters of their own accord and may have resented the filmmaker for his treatment of them, even while they laughed themselves silly.
		That's not to say there aren't laughs here -- "Wind" is funnier than any movie so far this year, with the possible exception of "The Life Of David Gale" -- but it doesn't match the steady guffawing stream of its two predecessors.
		This is only good inasmuch as it encourages the cast to emphasize skewed personalities over the inside references that might've made "Wind" a satire for reformed folkies only.
	www.austin360.com /movies/content/movies/reviews/m/mightywind_aas.html (613 words)

	A Mighty Wind
		A Mighty Wind is to folk music what Best in Show was to dog shows and Waiting for Guffman was to community theater.
		The last group is a reconstituted version of the Main Street Singers, led by Terry (John Michael Higgins, The Man Who Wasn't There, Best in Show) and Laurie Bohner (Collateral Damage, Best in Show), who also follow their own color-based religion.
		A Mighty Wind is less biting in its satire than Guest's other films.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/mighty_wind.html (524 words)

	Amazon.com: A Mighty Wind: DVD: Bob Balaban,Michael Baser,Marty Belafsky,Paul Dooley,Tyler Forsberg,Mary Gross,Laura ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"A Mighty Wind," which he directed and co-wrote with Eugene Levy, is a worthy addition to Guest's filmography--an affectionately goofy sendup of '60s folk music, set against the backdrop of a memorial concert for a folk music promoter.
		A MIGHTY WIND is another of Guest and Co.'s projects that examines the inner workings of the folk music business.
		And what a comical movie it is. A MIGHTY WIND is one of the funniest movies I have seen in the past five years.
	www.amazon.com /Mighty-Wind-Bob-Balaban/dp/B0000ALFVD (2036 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Wind' spoofs folk music with a lingering twang (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Though it has an even droller approach to humor, A Mighty Wind is only slightly less of a breeze than Christopher Guest's other mockumentaries, Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and This Is Spinal Tap, which Guest didn't direct but co-wrote and starred in.
		For the teens and young adults who won't have a clue what this movie is about, its inspiration is a reunion in New York's Town Hall brought about by the death of a music promoter.
		Just as Levy's depression has a surprisingly poignant side, the movie itself displays such twisted affection for its performers that it's unexpectedly moving when the entire cast sings on stage in a peppy grand finale.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2003-04-16-mighty-wind_x.htm (479 words)

	MCN Review: A Mighty Wind
		The lifeless whimsy of A Mighty Wind follows the preparations for a tribute concert to the mentor of a group of folk musicians, forty years after their glory days.
		While someone in their fifties might recall the subgenre being sent up by Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Guest, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean and others, to most audiences, they'll be an inconsequential gathering of harmless souls wearing funny clothes, deeply oblivious to a world that has moved on, and talking in non sequiturs.
		In A Mighty Wind, Guest avoids references to the politics of the Civil Rights era he's puddling around in, a time which begat, among other artists, Bob Dylan.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/mighty_wind.html (900 words)

	Errata: A Mighty Wind (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A Mighty Wind is often called a mockumentary and has been compared to serious documentaries such as The Weavers: Wasn't That A Time (which I have not seen).
		Nashville tries to catch the musicians on the rise or at their peaks, whereas A Mighty Wind picks them up well after their primes.
		Both movies juggle large casts of actors who write and perform original songs that mimic the genre, with varying degrees of accuracy, and both movies build to concerts with dramatic conclusions.
	www.erratamag.com /archives/2003/04/a_mighty_wind.html (596 words)

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		For example, a number of class-action lawsuits involving the cause of damage appeared.
		Wind damage is generally covered in property insurance, but flood damage isn't.
		A number of properties in the Gulf Coast area were damaged by the wind pushing coastal waters in-land, thus flooding occurred.
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	A Mighty Wind
		A hollerin' good time, A MIGHTY WIND is yet another comic masterpiece from Guest, whose films resonate with viewers long after they're through, and easily lend themselves to repeat viewings.
		With this web of connections and two previous Guest films under their collective belt, the Mighty troupe was at the top of their game when it came time to shoot.
		A Mighty Wind was shot in Los Angeles on a relatively short 23-day schedule, beginning May 21st, 2002 and ending June 20th.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/mighty_wind/about.php (4082 words)

	A Mighty Wind \| ajc.com
		Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara blow in the wind.
		Their songs tend to go like this: "There's a puppy in the parlor and a skillet on the stove!" or, more seriously, "My momma was the cold north wind/ my daddy was the sun" (think, strumming guitars).
		However, this isn't a case of you-had-to-be-there, any more than you had to be a metalhead to get "Spinal Tap." So you don't have to be an aging baby-boomer folkie-manque to laugh yourself silly at "A Mighty Wind." But being one may help you catch the tender heart beneath the mockery.
	www.ajc.com /movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/M/amightywind.html (434 words)

	A MIGHTY WIND
		While WIND has moments that are just as funny, it lacks the pathos to be truly great.
		There's a real energy between the players when they're singing that adds to the film's vibe and in this case more would have been better.
		While WIND doesn't exactly chart new territory or break from Guest's usual style, it is still a highly entertaining vehicle that will make most people laugh out loud.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsM/f_mighty_wind.html (594 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "A Mighty Wind"
		"A Mighty Wind," a documentary-parody about three '60s folk-singing groups who reunite for a memorial concert at New York City's Town Hall, is the third picture Guest has directed with these actors, whose core group includes Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara and Michael McKean.
		But "A Mighty Wind" tops both of those movies by subtly undercutting them: It's a fine-grained picture that goes for the sideways laughs rather than the straight-ahead ones.
		When Levy and O'Hara take the stage as the long-estranged ex-husband-and-wife folk duo Mitch & Mickey to reprise their big hit song, about a kiss at the end of the rainbow, we're not thinking about how spot-on their comic intonation is, or about how accurately they've captured the flavor of the era's music.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/04/16/mighty_wind (338 words)

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