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...lapels and a 50-pound bearcat sat on his head during Columbus Zoo director Jack Hanna's visit to the Speaker's office today. Gingrich, who said his boyhood dream had been to be a zookeeper, invited Hanna to drop by with a few friends, which also included a python and a poisonous African toad. Although Hanna normally includes a tiger in his entourage, Capitol Police balked at letting him pack a tranquilizer gun. Instead, Hanna brought a newt. "Notice how small and unprepossessing they are," Gingrich said, with a smile, as the newt stood on his hand...
...early Woody Allen (this was when people guffawed at Woody rather than nodded thoughtfully). And there was "The Producers" and there were collaborations between Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. And there was news from England in Richard Lester's Beatles movies and there was a group called Monty Python, of which the more said the better. And there was "Nashville" and "M'A'S'H" and "Shampoo...
...Monty Python and the Holy Grail, King Arthur finds his path blocked by the Black Knight, a belligerent fellow who happens to be no good at fighting. The Knight loses an arm, then another, then both legs to Arthur's superior swordsmanship. He is left in pieces on the ground, screaming to the departing King, "You yellow bastard, come back here and take what's coming...
Transvestitism is nothing new in Tinseltown. Dustin Hoffman won raves for his performance as a soap opera leading lady in "Tootsie." Marilyn Monroe wasn't the only one in a dress in "Some Like It Hot." Eric Idle of Monty Python fame brought drag to a new level by putting on a habit in "Nuns on the Run." During "Belle Epoque," the 1993 Academy Award winner for best foreign film, we got a chance to see what the hero looked like in a frock (rather fetching, as it turned out, but really not his color). And there are many, many...
...audience seemed to particularly enjoySlaughter's description of a "Blur pythonathon,"an evening of alcohol and "Monty Python" watching...