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...Kurtzman's door in New York City and was hired as an assistant at Help! magazine, where he helped organize photo comic strips. One of them starred a 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...
Although locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the BBC. After Hussain got into some fights at his racially divided school, he went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping the teen would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited Pakistan several times...
...front to radicalize young men. Though locals claimed not to have noticed anything unusual, all three men, in hindsight, had shown proclivities for radical Islam. Khan is said to have traveled regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan for military training, according to a friend who spoke to the bbc After he got into some fights at his racially divided school, Hussain went to Mecca on a pilgrimage with his father, who then sent him to study in Pakistan, hoping he would gain discipline. When Hussain returned to Leeds, he grew a beard and began dressing in traditional Muslim clothes. Tanweer visited...
Sources: AP (2); New YorkTimes; AP; BBC...
...bedridden hero of Dennis Potter's superb 1986 BBC mini-series shares the name (minus an e) of a top private eye and applies his own daft deductive powers to solving the mystery of his own sad life. Michael Gambon is laceratingly magnificent...