I read an article about Christopher Guest in the NYT today and loved learning things like this about one of my favorite filmakers:
His latest film, “For Your Consideration,†a scathing sendup of award-season hype that opens on Friday, employs his usual repertory of actors  McKean, Shearer, Eugene Levy (who has co-written most of Guest’s films), Parker Posey, Fred Willard and Catherine O’Hara, among them.
…fame and how little he enjoys it.
When his parents took him out to dinner, he would listen to a waiter recite the specials, then order in the waiter’s voice, to the dismay of his father, Lord Peter Haden-Guest, then editorial director of the United Nations, and his mother, Jean Haden-Guest, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who was a vice president of casting and talent at CBS. Guest grew up in Greenwich Village and went to the Little Red School House, P.S. 41 and the High School of Music and Art.
…the kind of long, easy silences Guest treasures.
“I don’t think I’ve ever been separated from Jamie for more than two weeks in 22 years,†Guest said. “That was always a rule, first as a couple, then as a family. And we’ve stuck to it.†They have two adopted children, Annie, 19, and Tom, 10.