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...Among the 1,103 Monty Python items up for bid last week on eBay were these ephemera inspired by the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: talking action figures of King Arthur, sirs Bedevere and Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...
...Amazing, the staying power of a TV cult. From Oct. 1969 to Dec. 1974, when the four seasons of Monty Python's Flying Circus were running on BBC, you couldn't see the show in the U.S. The Pythons - composed of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin - had made a film of their best early skits, called And Now for Something Completely Different, but they were barely known in these parts when the Holy Grail film opened here. The movie was essentially a calling card for the show's airing on U.S. public...
...Their fans didn't, though. Their shows became available on VHS and DVD; The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset was issued to general acclaim earlier this year. CDs? They've got about a dozen of them. Some 60 Python books can be found on Alibris, the most imposing being The Pythons, a gigantic hexabiography with input from the five surviving members. (Chapman died...
...providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Pythons, each of whom earned a stingy ?125 per episode in the first season of Flying Circus, would have lovely annuities even without Spamalot. Last year Monty Python won the Holy Grail - a Tony for Best Musical - and 18 months after it opened on Broadway it's playing to packed houses and has spawned road companies touring North America. (Next stops: Cincinnati and St. Louis.) The show goes to Las Vegas in March and Australia a year from now. And this Saturday, Spamalot opens at the Palace Theatre in London's West End. The Pythons, who can be expected...