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...Circus, which launched on Oct. 5, 1969 with a skit about sheep nesting in trees, should have so captivated viewers. There are precious few clues in the book, which is a hexagonal feat of memory, not self-analysis, though they rightly pay tribute to comic forebears such as Spike Milligan. The launch of Python was certainly a tribute to the laissez-faire latitude of the BBC's comedy department, which cheerfully commissioned 13 shows from John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones - Oxbridge graduates working on the hit satirical shows...
...study last year at Adelaide's Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science showed no increased cancer risk - contradicting a damning earlier study from the Royal Adelaide Hospital - the industry breathed a billion-dollar sigh of relief. "It may be reasonable to ask if we are like tobacco," says Michael Milligan, secretary-general of the European industry's representative group, the Mobile Manu- facturers Forum. "But the most important thing for us is that while the World Health Organization has always been very strongly against the tobacco industry, they've been very involved with mobile phones and their view is very...
DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
...Angeles. Over an 80-movie career, Tierney was best known for playing the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, and enjoyed a resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured as a soldier during...
...seems reasonable, only of course SPIKE MILLIGAN was the enemy of reason. As a result our genuine sadness is underpinned by a totally illogical resentment...