When I was a little kid, I used to stay up late on Saturday nights so I could watch Monty Python's Flying Circus on OETA. My love affair with the Pythons and, subsequently, the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, began at about the age of 12. Since that time, I've watched a billion hours of OETA's programming, news and PBS documentaries. I worked side-by-side with OETA's reporters and news anchors and witnessed firsthand the important role the authority plays in informing the public.
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 by Michael Palin; St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne, 622 pages, $32.50. One good reason why Monty Python's Flying Circus was -- and remains -- so beloved by so many of us is that its antic communal madness was created and performed by men who were, in the main, sane to a thoroughly remarkable degree. It's true, certainly, that Graham Chapman's sexual and alcoholic regimen wouldn't necessarily recommend him for very long to the annals of the ordinary -- or, for that matter, to life itself (he was, sadly, the first of the Pythons to die and, so far, the only one) -- but the rest of the Pythons included sneaky ponderous professors (John Cleese) and ambitious yuppies lurking within. If one were to have a contest to name the sanest Python of t...
TORONTO -- Terry Gilliam is not someone you'd expect to see lounging poolside at a luxury hotel. For almost three decades as a director, and before that as the animator and token Yank in Monty Python's Flying Circus, Gilliam has been decidedly non-Hollywood. Although occasionally his films employ big stars -- Robin Williams in "The Fisher King," Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in "Twelve Monkeys" -- Gilliam has famously struggled to interest the major studios in his fevered visions.
These TV episodes -- led by the Monty Python collections that began airing on PBS last week -- will be in stores on Tuesday. -- "Monty Python's Flying Circus: John Cleese's Personal Best" (A&E, 1969-74, not rated, $19.95).
... serious documentary feel as the surviving Pythons talk about him, and it includes the first part of ...
When I think of England in the '70s, I rarefy recall anything cool. My mind often drifts back to the stuff I caught on TV as a kid: Benny Hill reruns, those silly softcore-porn flicks Showtime used to run like The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, etc. Even though I know Great Britain gave us such hip maverick icons as Monty Python's Flying Circus and Sex Pistols during that decade, I can't stop flashing back to the bad teeth, loud clothing, thick Cockney accents and naughty cheekiness that I've associated with the country since I was a youngster. Bob Bernard, whose interpretation of the jazz standard "Coming Home Baby" is included on Working, performed at the album's launch party in December, wowing the crowd with a couple of sets with his quartet. "Bob's been a professional musician for mo...
This 1969 futuristic oddity was directed by Philadelphia native Richard Lester, who's had a corkscrew-unpredictable career, doing everything from A Hard Day's Night and Help! to Superrnans l through III. The cast includes Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Spike Milligan, Dudley Moore and the whole affair is baffingly British. "If Monty Python's Flying Circus had never existed," wrote Roger Eber-t, "Richard Lester would still have invented it." Tues., July 14, dusk. Lawn Chair Drive-in. Libertv Lands Park, Third Street above Poplar St. lawnchair drivein.com It's thrills and kills this month at Andrew's Video Vault, starting with Lee Marvin in 1967 as a hitman in an adaptation of a Donald E. Westlake novel. Then there's 1972's Hit Man with foxy Pam Grier, and the last feature, from 1983, abou...
The silly force of nature known as Monty Python's Flying Circus has spawned a legacy of silly walks, soccer playing philosophers and catapulting cows. The comedy sketch show, which debuted on the BBC television in 1969, begat recordings, tours, books and movies.
The original "Monty Python" players are not in this merry production, but it has their blessing -- as well as classic sketches, Spam and songs. It's all part of "An Evening Without Monty Python. TELL ME MORE: To celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" -- and the publication of "Monty Python Live!" a book about their life on the road and the sketches they performed -- the five surviving Pythons (John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin) are allowing their material to be publicly performed. In fact, Idle co-directs the show, with B.T. McNicholl. It features Jeff B. Davis, Jane Leeves, Alan Tudyk, Rick Holmes and Jim Piddock reprising classic Python skits and songs, such as the parrot sketch, silly walks, Spanish Inquisitio...
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