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...result is an engagingly slapdash combination of idiosyncratic British humor, melodramatic plotting and cut-rate special effects, something like Star Trek as conceived by Monty Python. Although Doctor Who is sometimes considered a children's show, 60% of its 8 million British viewers are over 16. Says Sydney Newman, the former BBC drama chief who dreamed up the series: "It was never intended to be simply a children's program, but something that would appeal to people who were in a childlike frame of mind...
...entry, Leacock's Gertrude the Governess: "It was a wild and stormy night on the West Coast of Scotland. This, however, is immaterial to the present story, as the scene is not laid in the West of Scotland." That kind of screwball is still pitched effectively by Monty Python, but it is not a sign of seniority. Virginia Woolf believed that Ring Lardner had "talents of a remarkable order." And so he had. But the episode from You Know Me Al leans hard on misspelling and false naiveté, favorite devices of the novice: "Florrie thinks...
...surprisingly, the Boston production attracts an audience composed mostly of middle-aged couples who attended Lehrer's concerts and bought his albums in their college days, and college students who discovered in Lehrer a blend of Monty Python and Mark Russell with a touch of Russell Baker mixed in and set to music. They already know all the lines, and when one of the more heinous puns draws a few hisses, it is reminiscent of a rowdy Sanders Theatre audience...
...Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail...
...survivors of the international film wars won special consolations, Grand Prize for Cinema Creation: France's Robert Bresson for L 'Argent, a lucid, listless parable about how money corrupts, and the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky for Nostalgia, an agonizing stylistic exercise about a Soviet intellectual in Italy. Monty Python's the Meaning of Life won the Special Jury Prize. At the closing-night ceremony, Python Terry Jones thanked the jury members by name and quipped, "Your money is behind the wash basin." This was the first year since 1967 that no American film won a single jury prize...