Tony Hendra, British humorist who shrunk ‘Spinal Tap’s’ Stonehenge, dead at 79

Laura Italiano
Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:13:47 -0500

Tony Hendra — the British humorist best known as the “This is Spinal Tap” manager who blunderingly shrunk Stonehenge — died Thursday of Lou Gehrig’s disease in Yonkers, NY. He was 79, and had battled the illness, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, since 2019. “A brilliant satirist,” the iconic 1984 mockumentary’s director, Rob Reiner,...