Former Python star has shown us the world beyond our shores but after forging a bond with a 26-year-old Somali refugee he hopes to open our eyes to problems much closer to home They make for an odd couple. One is an epoch-defining comedian, not to mention a popular explorer and best-selling author who is fast approaching heritage-listed status. The other is a near-anonymous Somali refugee who fled...
From my Amazon.com review of Michael Palin's Diaries, 1969-1979: The Python Years : Can we have 1980-1990 soon please Mike? Apparently yes, yes we can . And you all thought I was a dead loss...
Controversy rages over the choice of Herman Van Rompuy (pronounched rumpy to rhyme with pumpy) to the EU presidency. Stung by British Rumpy Pumpy jokes the French-language Belgian regional newspaper La Capitale printed a list of our most irritating national traits. Britons, they decalred a group of lazy drunks who believe the world revolves around them. Stupid sods, they mised out workshy, piratical,...
For most of you, you may be tempted to avoid purchasing the DVD - in fact, you may wish to acquire the hour-long version of this documentary via dubiously legal means. Trust me, the hour-long version is a little truncated, and the six hour version of Monty Python: Almost The Truth is nothing more than a revelation. Covering pretty much the entirety of Python history (including the 70s record albums,...
And I'm not talking about Michael Palin either: he's the nice member of Monty Python and he's a bona fide writer to boot. Anyway, "author" Sarah Palin crapped out of a book signing at a Borders in Noblesville, Indiana without...
Divas do not make good politicians. I know people who have worked in the Senate, for example, and behind the scenes guys like Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer are total dickweeds. Teddy Kennedy, except for the drunken Irishman schtick and...
Don't ask me to explain, 'cause I don't care. I just know -- from watching Graham Norton last night -- that in Britain they're counting down to David Tennant's final episode as Doctor Who , "The End of Time." by Ken I admit that I watch my share -- okay, just possibly more than my share -- of stuff on TV that might be judged by the Supreme World TV Council as, well, "crap." (Heck,...
By David Lambert - It begins innocently enough: a politician calls a strike, and the headmaster of a local school inadvertently sabotages it. Soon the men are caught in a power struggle of epic proportions.... (more)
Today's Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from Nina Lepp about the bond she formed with her dad over British comedy troupe Monty Python. As always, you can communicate directly with any member of the Ypulse Youth Advisory Board by emailing them at youthadvisoryboard at ypulse.com…or just leave a comment below. The Intergenerational ...
Please click the link below for the second Terry Gilliam Master Class for The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus. The questions are translated into English below. Gilliam responds in English. http://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=18932188&cfilm=131723.html 1- What were your influences for the design of the inside of the mirror ? 2- What part of your personality did you put in the character...
[Images: Mr Paparazzi / Big Pictures Words: Samuel Nathan] For the last month or so Russell Brand and Katy Perry have been rubbing our faces in their love affair all over the world – well just LA and London really. Anyway, the pair were doing much of the same when we spotted them in Dublin on Friday, where Russell had jetted to in order to appear on the Late Late Show (where we also spotted fellow...
A view from Sarah Palin's porch? No, it's a satellite image of Big Diomede and Little Diomede islands in the Bering Strait between the easternmost tip of Asia (Siberian Russia) and the westernmost tip of North America (Alaska). "I know I'm here for only a very short time, but I hope I'll learn something." -- Michael Palin, to Sokun, the abbot of the Zen Buddhist temple of Buttsuji in southern...
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