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...same energy can exhaust actors. Palin remembers almost breaking his back on Jabberwocky when Gilliam repeatedly got him to walk up some stairs leaning at an unnatural and painful angle. "He thinks he can make people in real life do what he draws on paper," says Palin. "He doesn't mean to upset anyone, but I have heard stories of people cracking up on his films...
...young British actor named John Cleese. Gilliam vagabonded to Paris and then London, where his sharply surreal animations for BBC comedy shows impressed Cleese and four other Oxbridge grads--the gang that became Monty Python. "We'd never seen anything like these brilliant cartoons before," recalls fellow Python Michael Palin, who has acted in four of Gilliam's features. "Wonderful pictures, like a church with spires coming off and rockets shooting out." Gilliam became the Python's animator, linking sketches with crazy, hilarious cartoons...
...name or material--and they have turned down plenty. In 1998, after the troupe met for a tribute at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., Idle and Cleese began work on a Python stage show. But Terry Gilliam was too busy with his own films, and Michael Palin vetoed the idea. "Mike felt that we all look so much older now, and it would look a bit sad," says Terry Jones. Idle went off to develop Spamalot on his own. By the time it was finished several years later, the group had mellowed some. "There...
...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 of the day - who had no idea what they would be like except there were to be no stars, no musical interludes and no punchlines. "One of the great executive decisions," says Cleese in The Pythons Autobiography, "and something that...
...create Parliament, and I won computers for our school." But a life as Marcia Clark was not to be. During her middle-school years, Friel became involved with a local theater group, performing in student-written plays. At 15, she landed her first TV role, as Michael Palin's daughter in the British series GBH. Film parts started to come soon after she was killed off in Brookside, and so too did a starring part in an impressive BBC production of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend...