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...Dead Yet, an organization of persons with disabilities who oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia, maintains that the starvation and dehydration of Terri Schiavo will put the lives of thousands of severely disabled children and adults at risk. (The organization takes its name from the scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which a plague victim not dying fast enough is hit over the head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early...
...wire for the Tony nominations but to take advantage of the show's momentum. "The actors were getting so much attention--people clamoring to offer them things--the only way we were going to keep them together was to go quickly," he says. Two splashier Broadway musicals--Monty Python's Spamalot and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels--have been getting most of the early Tony buzz. But Spelling Bee has some obvious similarities to another quirky off-Broadway show that came out of nowhere and last season won the Best Musical Tony: Avenue Q. Can you use upset in a sentence? --Reported...
This week's Broadway opening of Monty Python's Spamalot--Eric Idle's musical version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail--won't just mark the arrival of an all but certain Broadway hit. It will also be the occasion for a rare Python reunion. Along with Idle, all four other living members of the British comedy troupe (Graham Chapman died in 1989) will be in New York City for the show's opening. And at least some in the group think that might provide the spark for a new Python project...
Just getting Spamalot onstage required some unusual cooperation. All the Pythons must approve any project that uses the group's name or material--and they have turned down plenty. In 1998, after the troupe met for a tribute at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo., Idle and Cleese began work on a Python stage show. But Terry Gilliam was too busy with his own films, and Michael Palin vetoed the idea. "Mike felt that we all look so much older now, and it would look a bit sad," says Terry Jones. Idle went off to develop Spamalot...
This week's reunion could get talk started again about a new Python film or stage show. "The trick is trying to get us all together these days," says Gilliam. "But we do get all excited when we get together. Ideas fly around, and we feel the old magic is still there." --By Richard Zoglin and James Inverne