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Some gags work: a peasant crosses the stage with a bale of hay just as a rousing, Fiddler on the Roof-style chorus line points and shouts, "Hey!" Some gags--the choleric knight who gets his arms and legs cut off--worked better onscreen. But Idle's runaway hit musical based on Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a rowdy, anything-goes spirit as well as two memorable numbers: You Won't Succeed on Broadway ("if you don't have any Jews") and the infectious Always Look on the Bright Side of Life. You have to be a Python...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: 4 Must-See Shows On (and Off) Broadway | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...Silver Plan: Lawyers from Harvard Law School will be to Bechtel as ‘Nam was to Lieutenant Dan, only this time Forrest Gump will be as fast as a member of the Advocate on horse tranquilizer. Can you say “black knight from Monty Python...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: HUBRIS: Plans for the Big Dig | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...latter-day Santa Claus." RONALD ROSS, Texas Tech University basketball player, praising his famously irascible coach, Bobby Knight. Texas Tech was later eliminated from the U.S. collegiate "Sweet 16" in a game in which Knight shouted in Ross' face and swatted his behind after bad plays

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/28/2005 | See Source »

...trick to creating a good comic persona is to find a new way to be unaware. Steve Carell has landed on just such a type: a confident, articulate buffoon who has no idea he's messing things up--Ted Knight without the bubbling insecurity, Will Ferrell without the boyish need to please. With his serious, Father Knows Best demeanor, Carell maintains self-assurance in the face of obvious failure; he's a pompous but lovable loser. "I myself am a lovable loser. So it's an easy transition," Carell says while sitting in the trailer for his upcoming movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Office Guy | 3/13/2005 | See Source »

After a week, Graff attracted the attention of Ron Hutcheson, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association and correspondent for Knight Ridder, who was following Graff’s story on FishbowlDC...

Author: By Alexander H. Greeley, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Blogger Admitted To White House | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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