Monty Python weighs in on 9-11

[Phil Wise]

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From: "Jasper Fidget" <fakename at tokyo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 2:41 AM
Subject: RE: Monty Python weighs in on 9-11


> Voting, then?  Certainly Terry Gilliam, with John Cleese a close second.
> I was about to call Terry Jones a Ringo, but then looked up his credits:

To do history a service, though, the Beatles needed a good drummer at the
time and Ringo was it.  Compare the plodding "love me do" with the rockin
and racy "please please me" - one a number 17 recorded without Ringo, the
next a number one recorded with him, and you hear the difference between a
minor regional success and the biggest pop phenomenon in history.


> directed _Life of Brian_, co-directed _Holy Grail_ and _Meaning of
> Life_, directed and wrote _Erik the Viking_, wrote _Labyrinth_, co-wrote
> all the other MP films, and, most importantly, played the role of the
> Cardinal in the Spanish Inquisition sketch.

Our greatest weapon is fear.  Fear and surprise...


Not too shabby, I suppose;
> that last credit alone gives him room to publish any number of vapid
> pieces of garbage.

Although, have you seen the rather good tv series he made about the
crusades?

phil
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> > The Terry Jones piece is weak, neither politically nor
> > humorously very interesting. My favourite Monty Python has
> > always been John Cleese.
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