Is Dewey Cox the next Spinal tap?

There are a ton of movies I really want to see this Oscar season, but few have me as excited as athe decidedly un-Oscar worthy film Walk Hard. There are more reasons for this to go right than for it to go wrong. It spoofs the music biopic at exactly the right time, gives John C. Reilly the starring feature he's deserved for over a decade now, and adds to the 2007 resume of the smartest man in Hollywood. It also features some ingenious casting decisions, such as Paul Rudd as John Lennon, Jason Schwartzmann as Ringo Starr, and, in a decision that's had me excited for months, Jack White as Elvis.

Well, tonight I will be one of the lucky few who not only enjoys a preview of the film, but gets to see the man, the legend, perform himself. John C. Reilly will be at the preview screening and performing after the concert as part of his brilliantly named Cox Across America tour. The fact that Reilly is performing in character leads me to believe we may see an ironic fictional musician become a reality once again, in the style of The Monkees, Hannah Montana, and perhaps most brilliantly, Spinal Tap:



No word yet on whether Cox's drummer will choke on someone else's vomit.