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Guest may refer to:

• A person who is given hospitality
• "The Guest", a short story by Albert Camus
• The Guest (album), a 2002 album by Phantom Planet
• USS Guest (DD-472), a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer 1942–1946
• Guest (surname), people with the surname Guest
• Guest appearance (guest actor, guest star, etc.)
• Guest Operating System (an operating system such as Linux Enterprise or Windows Server installed on a virtual machine)

See also[link]

• Guest Island in the Ross Sea off Antarctica; part of the Ross Dependency claimed by New Zealand
• Guest River, Virginia, USA
• Guest beer, 1989 legislation in the British Parliament concerning the sale of beer

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Grant Kirkhope (born 10 July 1962) is a British video game music composer, known for writing the soundtracks for numerous games by Rare, such as GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Donkey Kong 64, Perfect Dark, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Viva Pinata, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise, and also Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning by Big Huge Games.

Biography[link]

Kirkhope was brought up in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire and attended King James's School (like his fellow trumpet player and good friend, Simply Red's Tim Kellett). Kirkhope played in various bands after leaving the Royal Northern College of Music, including Zoot and the Roots along with the saxophonist, Snake Davis. Kirkhope also spent many years as part of "the big bad horns" which were part of UK band "Little Angels". At the age of 33 he was employed by Rare. Before joining Rare, in October 1995, he played for two bands called Syar and Maineeaxe where he played guitar, and already knew Robin Beanland, another Rare composer. Kirkhope's music, featuring an electric guitar, is played on an Ernie Ball/Musicman EVH given to him by Eddie Van Halen.

On 14 July 2008, Kirkhope stated in his MySpace blog that he was resigning from Rare. He joined THQ studio Big Huge Games, as audio director.^[1]

Big Huge Games was acquired by 38 Studios in May 2009, the company founded by Curt Schilling. Kirkhope went on to compose both the music and sound effects for Big Huge Games's role-playing game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, which was released in February 2012^[2].

On 24 May 2012, 38 Studios announced that it would be laying-off its entire staff, including Kirkhope and the employees of Big Huge Games, due to the effects of the financial downturn.^[3]

Nominations[link]

• In 2004 Kirkhope was nominated for "Outstanding Achievement In Original Music Composition" at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Wards Ceremony for Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
• In 2004 Kirkhope was nominated for "Best Interactive Score" at the 2nd Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards Ceremony for Grabbed by the Ghoulies.
• In 2007 Kirkhope was nominated for "Original Score" at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards for Viva Pinata.

Selected works[link]

• Project Dream (1995)
• Donkey Kong Land 2 (1996)
• GoldenEye 007 (with Graeme Norgate and Robin Beanland) (1997)
• Banjo-Kazooie (1998)
• Donkey Kong 64^[4] (with Yukio Kaneoka (for the original Donkey Kong arcade game)) (1999)
• Banjo-Tooie (2000)
• Perfect Dark (with David Clynick) (2000)
• Grabbed by the Ghoulies (2003)
• Viva Piñata (with Steve Burke) (2006)
• Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise (2008)
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (with Robin Beanland and David Clynick) (2008)
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (with Mark Cromer) (2012)

He also voiced several characters in the games he worked on, such as Mumbo Jumbo, the Jinjos, or Jamjars in the Banjo-Kazooie series, and Donkey Kong in Donkey Kong 64. ^{[5] [6]}

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Profile at MobyGames
• Grant Kirkhope discography at MusicBrainz
• Grant Kirkhope at the Internet Movie Database
• Artist profile at OverClocked ReMix

Reviews[link]

• Reckoning Soundtrack Review by Daniel Schweiger at Film Music Magazine
• Reckoning Soundtrack Review at Original Sound Version
• Reckoning Review at XBOX World Australia
• Reckoning Soundtrack Review at KQEK

Interviews[link]

• Gamespot Interview
• Game Soundtracks Interview
• Gamikia Interview about the music in Reckoning
• SoundRadar Podcast Interview
• Video Diary on Music and Sound in Reckoning
• Reckoning interview with Square Enix Music Online
• Interview with Made2Game Part 1
• Interview with 38Fans
• Interview with Gamikia
• The Sound Design of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
• Square Enix Music Online Interview
• OverClocked ReMix interview
• Rare-Extreme interview
• Rare-Extreme interview after Rare
• IGN Interview
• IGN Composers To Watch

Kai L. Greene
Kai Greene at the 2009 IFBB Australia competition, which he won.
Personal Info
Born	(1975-07-12) July 12, 1975 (age 36) Brooklyn, New York
Professional Career
Pro-debut	IFBB New York Pro, 2005
Best win	Arnold Classic, 2010, Arnold Classic, 2009,
Active	Yes

Kai Greene (born July 12, 1975) is a professional bodybuilder.^[1] His most recent win was the New York Pro Show 2011.

Artistic background[link]

Greene says that he became interested in bodybuilding through his love of visual art. He regards his work on his own body as an extension of his artistic bent: "I became my own living model. I utilized my own physique to gain a greater understanding of space and movement, creating works of art that became increasingly detailed and complex over time."

Kai Greene (far left), Aaron Warr, and Toney Freeman in a scene from the movie My Guaranteed Student Loan (2010).

Kai Greene, also known as "The Predator", is known for his long, grueling and intense training sessions. In the past Kai Greene was a stripper and has been in graphic videos of a sexual nature. Googling "Kai Greene Grapefruit" will show you examples of his erotic background.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Kai Greene's website
• Kai Greene in Mr Olympia 2009
• Complete Kai Greene Redemption Video Series

The Right Honourable The Lord Haden-Guest
Guest speaking at Vancouver Film School, July 18, 2008
Born	Christopher Haden-Guest (1948-02-05) February 5, 1948 (age 64) New York City, U.S.
Influenced	Ricky Gervais, The Comic Strip, Tim and Eric
Spouse	Jamie Lee Curtis (1984-present)

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational "mockumentary" films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast. In Britain, he holds a peerage, and has publicly expressed a desire to see the House of Lords reformed as a democratically-elected chamber. Despite initial activity in the Lords, his career there was cut short by the House of Lords Act 1999. When using his title, he is normally styled as Lord Haden-Guest.

Early years[link]

Guest was born in New York City, the son of Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became The 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, a former vice president of casting at CBS.^[1] Guest's maternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia. His paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and his paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads' and Girls' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.^[1][2][3] Both of Guest's parents had become atheists, and Guest had no religious upbringing.^[3] Nearly a decade before he was born, his uncle David Guest, a lecturer and Communist Party member, was killed in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades.

Guest spent parts of his childhood in his father's native United Kingdom. He attended The High School of Music & Art (New York City), studying classical music (clarinet). He later took up the mandolin, became interested in country music, and played guitar with Arlo Guthrie.^[4] Guest later began performing with bluegrass bands until he took up rock and roll.^[5]

Guest studied acting at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 1971.^[6]

Career[link]

1970s[link]

Guest began his career in theatre during the early 1970s with one of his earliest professional performances being the role of Norman in Michael Weller's Moonchildren for the play's American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. in November 1971. Guest continued with the production when it moved to Broadway in 1972. The following year he began making contributions to The National Lampoon Radio Hour for a variety of National Lampoon audio recordings. He both performed comic characters (Flash Bazbo-Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies (of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others). He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon's Lemmings. Two of his earliest film roles include small parts as uniformed police officers in both the 1972 film The Hot Rock and 1974's Death Wish.

Guest played a small role in the 1977 All In the Family episode "Mike and Gloria Meet", where in a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael's college buddy Jim (Guest), who dated Gloria's girlfriend Debbie (Priscilla Lopez).

1980s[link]

Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live. Recurring characters on SNL played by Guest include Frankie, of Willie and Frankie (coworkers who recount in detail physically painful situations in which they have found themselves, remarking laconically "I hate when that happens"); Herb Minkman, a shady novelty toymaker with a brother named Al (played by Crystal); Rajeev Vindaloo, an eccentric foreign man in the same vein as Andy Kaufman's Latka character from Taxi; and Senor Cosa, a Spanish ventriloquist often seen on the recurring spoof of The Joe Franklin Show . He also experimented behind the camera with pre-filmed sketches, notably directing a documentary-style short starring Shearer and Short as synchronized swimmers. In another short film from SNL, Guest and Crystal appear as retired Negro-League baseball players, "The Rooster and the King".

He has appeared as Count Rugen in The Princess Bride, Charley Ford in The Long Riders, Lord Cromer in Mrs Henderson Presents and Dr. Stone in A Few Good Men. He had a cameo role as Dylan, a smarmy pedestrian, in the 1986 musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured his SNL co-star, Steve Martin. As a co-writer and director, Guest made the Hollywood satire The Big Picture.

Guest's biggest role of the first two decades of his career is likely that of Nigel Tufnel in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. Guest made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show.

Upon his father succeeding to the family peerage in 1987, he was henceforth known as The Hon. Christopher Haden-Guest in full. This was his official style and name until he inherited the barony in 1996.

1990–present[link]

The experience of having made Spinal Tap would directly inform the second phase of his career. Starting in 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of heavily improvised films. Many of them would come to be definitive examples of what came to be known as "mockumentaries".

His frequent writing partner is Eugene Levy. Together, Levy, Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loose repertory group, which appear across several films. These include Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr. and Fred Willard. Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would. Each of these movies also shares a hallmark plot development, where the movie leads up to some kind of a highly anticipated performance, or the outcome of a performance. This could reflect Guest's background in theater, and simply a kind of meta-commentary, as a real performance is of course what is being improvised for the duration. Notably, everyone who appears in these movies receives the same fee, and the same portion of profits.^[7]

Despite making a number of mockumentaries, Guest dislikes the term. He maintains that his intention is not to mock anyone, but to explore insular, perhaps obscure communities through his method of filmmaking.

He had a guest voice-over role in the animated comedy series SpongeBob SquarePants as SpongeBob's cousin, Stanley.

Guest appeared in the 2009 comedy The Invention of Lying.

He is also currently a member of the musical group The Beyman Bros, which he formed with his childhood friend David Nichtern and Spinal Tap's current keyboardist CJ Vanston. Their debut album Memories of Summer as a Child was released on January 20, 2009.^[8]

In 2010, the United States Census Bureau paid $2.5 million to have a television commercial directed by Guest shown during television coverage of Super Bowl XLIV.^[9]

Guest holds an honorary doctorate from and is a member of the board of trustees for Berklee College of Music in Boston.^[10]

Peerage and heirs[link]

Guest became The Rt. Hon. The 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling, in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996. He succeeded upon the ineligibility of his older half-brother, Anthony Haden-Guest, who was born prior to the marriage of his parents. According to an article in The Guardian, Guest attended the House of Lords regularly until the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats. In the article Guest remarked:

There's no question that the old system was unfair. I mean, why should you be born to this? But now it's all just sheer cronyism. The Prime Minister can put in whoever he wants and bus them in to vote. The Upper House should be an elected body, it's that simple.^[11]

Personal life[link]

Guest married actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1984 at the home of their mutual friend Rob Reiner. They have two adopted children: The Hon. Anne (born 1986) and The Hon. Thomas (born 1996). Because Guest's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the family barony under the terms of the letters patent that created it, though a 2004 Royal Warrant addressing the style of a peer's adopted children states that they can use courtesy titles. The current heir presumptive to the barony is Guest's younger brother, the actor The Hon. Nicholas Haden-Guest.

Off-stage demeanor[link]

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances (having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, "rude, condescending and intolerable"),^[12] as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour. Of this, Guest has said, "People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living."^[13]

Recurring cast members[link]

Actor	This is Spinal Tap (1984)	The Big Picture (1989)	Waiting for Guffman (1996)	Almost Heroes (1998)	Best in Show (2000)	A Mighty Wind (2003)	For Your Consideration (2006)
Bob Balaban			N		N	N	N
Ed Begley Jr.	N				N	N	N
Jennifer Coolidge					N	N	N
John Michael Higgins					N	N	N
Michael Hitchcock			N		N	N	N
Eugene Levy			N	N	N	N	N
Jane Lynch					N	N	N
Michael McKean	N	N			N	N	N
Larry Miller			N		N	N	N
Catherine O'Hara			N		N	N	N
Parker Posey			N		N	N	N
Harry Shearer	N			N		N	N
Fred Willard	N		N		N	N	N

Filmography[link]

• The Hot Rock (1972) - as policeman
• Death Wish (1974) - as Patrolman Jackson Reilly
• Billion Dollar Bubble (TV film) (1976)
• Girlfriends (1978) - as Eric
• The Long Riders (1980) - as Charley Ford
• Million Dollar Infield (TV film) (1982) - as Bucky Frische
• This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - as Nigel Tufnel (Also Writer)
• Little Shop of Horrors (1986) - as The First Customer
• Beyond Therapy (1987) - as Bob
• The Princess Bride (1987) - as Count Tyrone Rugen, the six-fingered man
• The Big Picture (1989) - (Writer/Director Only)
• A Few Good Men (1992) - as Dr. Stone
• Waiting for Guffman (1996) - as Corky St. Clair (Also Writer/Director)
• Almost Heroes (1998) (Director only)
• Small Soldiers (1998) - Slamfist/Scratch-It (Voice Only)
• Best in Show (2000) - as Harlan Pepper (Also Writer/Director)
• A Mighty Wind (2003) - as Alan Barrows (Also Writer/Director)
• Mrs Henderson Presents (2005) - as Lord Cromer
• For Your Consideration (2006) - as Jay Berman (Also Writer/Director)
• SpongeBob SquarePants (2007) - as Stanley S. SquarePants (Voice Only)
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) - as Ivan the Terrible
• The Invention of Lying (2009) - as Nathan Goldfrappe

Titles and styles[link]

• 5 February 1948 – 26 May 1987: Mister Christopher Haden-Guest
• 26 May 1987 – 8 April 1996: The Honourable Christopher Haden-Guest
• 8 April 1996 – present: The Right Honourable Baron Haden-Guest

References[link]

External links[link]

• Christopher Guest at the Internet Movie Database
• Christopher Guest at the Internet Broadway Database
• Christopher Guest at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Christoper Guest bio in The Peerage
• "Nowt so queer as folk". The Guardian (UK). January 10, 2004. Richard Grant. Interview for release of A Mighty Wind.