Tony Hendra
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"Tony Hendra" (born 1941) is an English satire/satirist and writer who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School (Hertfordshire)/St Albans School (where he was a classmate of Stephen Hawking) and at Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Hendra is probably best known for being the writer for the first six shows of the British television series Spitting Image, and for playing Ian Faith, the band's manager, in the film This Is Spinal Tap.

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I didn't want him to go. I'd never felt so safe and secure with anyone in my life.....I wanted to tell him everything that had ever happened in my few years. There were a million things I wanted to ask him.

Again the hug, again the swirl of skirts, again the super-sandals squeaking away down the linoleum. Then silence. And peace.

[Comer, a paralegal wearing a straw hat, is reading a biography about] Father Joe ... so sharp, such a sharp writer.

So it should sell well.

How to Cook Your Daughter.