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...Amazing, the staying power of a TV cult. From Oct. 1969 to Dec. 1974, when the four seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus were running on BBC, you couldn't see the show in the U.S. The Pythons - composed of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin - had made a film of their best early skits, called And Now for Something Completely Different, but they were barely known in these parts when the Holy Grail film opened here. The movie was essentially a calling card for the show's airing on U.S. public...
...Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset was issued to general acclaim earlier this year. CDs? They've got about a dozen of them. Some 60 Python books can be found on Alibris, the most imposing being The Pythons, a gigantic hexabiography with input from the five surviving members. (Chapman died...
...reached their apex of glory and achievement as young men, then went into real estate, coasting on their lingering allure. It's true, anyway, if we see the TV show and Holy Grail as an extension of the glamorous days Jones and Palin spent at Oxford, and Cleese, Chapman and Idle at Cambridge...
...hope resulting from the actions of the courageous troops in Iraq. Frank Bacon Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. Ghosh's "Baghdad Diary" put me in mind of a famous World War II saying: We sure liberated the hell out of that place. Connie Chapman Woodbridge, Virginia, U.S. What an absolutely stunning piece of journalism. Ghosh's "Baghdad Diary" should be required reading for all political and military analysts and decision makers who think they know how to achieve peace in the world. Alvin Jacobson Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. I don't understand the many references to sectarianism. It seems...
Women designing for women was a strong theme on day five of New York Fashion Week. Designers including Monique L'Huillier, Georgina Chapman and runway newcomer Karen Craig of Marchesa trained their eyes on the celebs who wear their clothes (and sit front row at their shows), such as Sarah Michelle Geller and Mischa Barton, with lots of light airy goddess dresses. Or, in the case of Marchesa, several short puff ball dresses in cotton candy colors...