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...sextet's cleansing silliness. All 45 of the original half-hour BBC shows are here, plus the 1982 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (a greatest-hits show, but ruder) and a 1998 reunion of the five surviving members, recollecting the canon: Silly Walks, Dead Parrot, Cheese Shop, Spanish Inquisition, etc. All together, Pythonites: Wink-wink nudge-nudge, say no more...
...According to the minutes from the group’s first meeting of this semester on Sept. 15, “It was urged that we not fall into a disproportionate emphasis on transparency, etc. at the expense of positive proposals for structural change...
There are a few actors who have made me so intrigued in modern film. There are of course the stunning performances by the figures listed as the icons, like Pacino, De Niro, Redford, Hoffman, etc. But, for me, the defining performer of the last 30 years has been Christopher Walken...
...break the seal on a bottle of gin. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Every time Linus does something vaguely biblical—throwing his snowball with a slingshot a la David, being offered Sally as his wife in the Christmas play, delivering the word of the Lord, etc. 2. Every time Charlie Brown says something suggesting he’s on the verge of suicide—in other words, drink like you think Charlie Brown would if he could. 3. Every time Schroeder rebuffs Lucy’s advances. Pause the film; discuss how she deserves her loneliness...
...TIME: Do you think of yourself as a religious man? Do you have a religious faith that keeps you going, sustains you? LEE: We do psychometric tests on our candidates for important jobs. There is a scale of values: social, aesthetic, economic, religious, etc., six values. I cannot judge myself, but I believe I would not score very highly on religious value. I do not believe that prayer can cure, but that prayer may comfort and help. At the same time, I've seen my closest friend [former Finance Minister] Hon Sui Sen on his deathbed...