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...that a presidential candidate might envy. They are the hottest TV import; 78 public-television stations are now committed to run the show, which is one of the most popular in public TV history. Doubtless there will be many more as their new movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (see box), is released across the nation. The flick has already opened in Manhattan, where on the first days, crowds lined up four deep around a city block. Said the Pythons' U.S. manager Nancy Lewis: "And they thought no one would understand them here...
...have often been its shortest, and the longer ones--like "The Piranha Brothers" and "Fairy Tale"--were very often the only losers on their records. And Now for Something Completely Different was extremely funny, leaping from skit to skit without worrying much about continuity. Monty Python and the Holy Grail, by contrast, has a single unified story line about a deadpan King Arthur searching for, well, the Holy Grail. Instead of being simply a background for a series of more or less independent routines, the Arthurian motif strangles the jokes...
...clear now that Monty Python is not more consistently clever than any other comedians. If only Time magazine and the other media currently hyping the group would let us, the decent thing to do would be to forget that bloody turkeys like Monty Python and the Holy Grail were ever made...
...Something Completely Different. Monty Python finally reached respectability this week, with a two-page spread in Newsweek. Apparently a second Monty Python movie, called Monty Python and the Holy Grail, is showing in Los Angeles, but if you're not going to LA for spring break you'll have to settle for this superb, incredibly funny film. Channel 2 has started showing Monty Python TV episodes and they've been phenomenally successful in the ratings, outdrawing even "Upstairs, Downstairs," so it looks like Dennis Moore and Mr. Verity and the Man From The Cat Detector Van will be around...
...sound became a modern science, and to this day no one really knows why an orchestra, pianist or singer sounds so well performing there. Given the problem so many new auditoriums have with their acoustics, the managers of Carnegie Hall guard their trust as though it were the Holy Grail...