Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The wise men wander into a manger, but it's the wrong one--no haloed Virgin Mary greets them in the straw; Terry Jones's familiar crone voice--a Python staple from "Penguin on the Telly" on down--bursts any reverential bubble, and we're back in the begrimed world...
It's as though someone placed a tape recorder under director Terry Jones' pillow that repeated over and over, while he slept, "I will NOT do anything too outrageous." Except for a brief sequence in which an animated spaceship picks up Graham Chapman in the middle of a 100-yard...
How much did he weigh before? "More than now." Hence reports of his fluctuations spread through the opera world like a runaway Dow Jones average: up 25, down 80, up 60. But he realizes that if he remains too heavy he could undermine his robust health. Which is why he...
Paris (Sept. 29, CBS, 10 p.m.). The good James Earl Jones, last seen in Roots 2, is an actor whose somber presence of ten gives way to humanizing bursts of humor. The bad James Earl Jones is so unrelievedly grave he could turn an audience to stone. This series, which...
Her cinematic organization is perhaps most effective in "The White Album," and most strained in "In the Islands," where she leaps from a resort hotel to a graveyard for Vietnamese soldiers to James Jones, with no clear direction. In this first essay, she describes a Doors recording session, a college...