Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eyed space opera: an imaginative English lad finds six dwarfs tumbling out of his bedroom closet one night and accompanies them on their adventures through time and space. But the movie undercuts any involvement in the tale by stopping dead for long derisory skits featuring Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery). It misuses Holm's talents, underuses Cleese's and doesn't use Connery at all-there's no way to turn him into a figure of antic misanthropy. The film finally regains its footing, with the supernal battle between...
Nevertheless, Pythonic curveballs keep the movie accessible for adults. Sherwood Forest teems with spit, snot, and dismembered limbs. John Cleese is a lively, simpleton "Hood," distributing art treasures to the downtrodden. "Do you know the poor? I'm sure you'd like them!" he insists with comic-book eyebrows. Michael Palin and Shelley Duvall, in dual roles as lovers across two eras, provide additional satire on old movies, with a touch of the absurd: Palin, in desperate search for a cure to his vague sexual problem, blurts out, "I must have fruit!" This can mean anything; Python at its best...
...Some of the debts are bizarre ones--mortgages and personal loans at non-interest," Hood said, adding that the funds raised would be used to pay the club's back taxes, debts to local merchants, unpaid utility bills, and a debt to Harvard of approximately...
...Pudding should save about $65,000 in salaries and hopes to reap $20,000 on the restaurant rental, Hood said. Leases of the Pudding's theatre to the American Repertory Theater and other groups should bring the club an additional $30,000, he added...
...Hood said, "If for some reason the Pudding went under, we'd want Harvard to take it over from Cambridge Trust...