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...role of St. Peter guarding heaven's gates is a suitably outrageous part for John Cleese, the madcap star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and Fawlty Towers, two of the most popular British comedy series ever to appear on American public TV. In a film called The Unorganised Manager, St. Peter returns an executive to earth to correct his "eleven deadly organizational sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monty Python in the Boardroom | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...subjects are driven alternately by money, fame, winelust, and terroir, the film’s untranslatable but ubiquitous term meaning something between “soil” and “heartland.” The film itself is driven by its energetic camerawork, tantalizing leads, and a madcap soundtrack ranging from vintage French cabaret to the Kinks. Adventurous moviegoers should be driven by curiosity and the desire to stray from the well-beaten Hollywood track, and they will not be disappointed...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MOVIE REVIEW: Mondovino | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Premier Hu Jintao of China have started negotiations as to what would be required of a free trade pact between the two countries. Australia has already inked a similar deal with Thailand. Asia could find itself as economically integrated as Europe without the politicized wrangling over common currencies and madcap attempts to establish governing bodies that sit above nationally elected governments...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, | Title: If You Can't Play Nice... | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...SLUMP By Akira Toriyama Adored and massively popular manga from Akira Toriyama, the creator of DRAGON BALL, Dr. Slump is a madcap, episodic series about a blustering inventor who creates the "perfect" android girl, only to discover that he may have created a monster instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telescoping | 12/10/2004 | See Source »

...lesser, multiple roles, Carla M. Borras ’05, Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08 and Stephen T. Volpe ’07 all draw upon seemingly bottomless reserves of energy to create various absurdist caricatures and to tear about the stage in wonderfully orchestrated sequences of madcap physical humor...

Author: By Patrick D. Blanchfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brilliance of ‘Physics’ Excites | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

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