Word: bowlful
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...Throughout, Idle devises numbers that are both parodies and evocations of popular songs. Idle's been writing this sort of ditty for decades. At Cambridge he did a song called "I Like Chinese" ("They only come up to your knees") that he reprised at the Hollywood Bowl. In his Flying Circus days he'd start with the verbal legerdemain of a highbrow-sounding verse ("Can a bee be said to be / Or not to be an entire bee / When half the bee is not a bee / Due to some ancient injury") with a simple chorus...
...famous, which was almost as funny as their best skits, since by then the team had effectively broken up. After that, the six reunited for two films, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life, a traveling stage show (released in theaters as Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl) and then called it quits...
...started the year they broke up. George was convinced there was this transference of spiritual essence." (Another fan, apparently, was Elvis, who is said to have watched MP&HG at least five times.) Harrison's company, Handmade Films, produced Life of Brian and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, then subsidized many of the projects starring or written by members of the splintered troupe: Gilliam's Time Bandits, Palin's The Missionary and A Private Function, Cleese's Privates on Parade, Idle's Nuns...
...animal fetish) and Chapman, in pre-med as Miller had been, impersonating "a man with iron fingertips being pulled offstage by an enormous magnet." Chapman's gift for physical comedy blossomed in a sketch about a man who wrestles himself - a bit reprised in Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl...
...Superdome did open on schedule, and with the fanfare more appropriate to a Super Bowl match. The rock bands U2 and Green Day kicked off Monday's game with a joint performance that included a mashed-up "House of the Rising Sun," with "Superdome" substituting for the titular brothel, and a version of the U2 hit "Beautiful Day." Former president George H.W. Bush was on hand for the opening coin toss, and New Orleans rhythm and blues singer Irma Thomas, backed by Allan Toussaint on piano, turned in a rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner," the final lines drowned...