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...Monty Python and the Holy Grail:Friday,Feb. 28-Sunday, March 1. Friday-Saturday atmidnight. Sunday at noon...
Props also play a significant role in the creation of new environments. In one scene reminiscent of a Monty Python skit, a huge canvas unfurls with a list of sundry things on it. An actor proceeds to call them out, and they fall from above. This is a great moment, but it relies almost completely on props...
...thought it was pretty cool," said onlooker Jamie W. Billett '95. "But I was a little disappointed because I thought they should have had slabs like in Monty Python, so they could whack their heads as they marched," he added...
...only resisted settlement but has retained its animist beliefs. Other longhouses have converted to Christianity, a change that they find brings some practical benefits, but at a price. Gone are medicines that involved spells, as well as taboos on women's eating leopard, monkey, sun bear and python. One old hunter says Christianity has simplified life. "Before, if I went from one place to another, I had to worry about taboos," he says. "What dream did I have last night, what route should I take? Now I just go there." On the other hand, he says, since converting...
This is all catnip to Terry Gilliam, deviser of the Monty Python animations and co-director of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. On his own he directed one commercial hit (Time Bandits) and one cult smash (Brazil). Critics, this one included, went crazy for Brazil; but not many citizens felt at home amid all the astringent whimsy. And the director's next phantasmagoria, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, was a $50 million flop...