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...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...
...conjunction with Monty Python's recent inquiry into the meaning of life. Hospital Britannia seems to be part of British comedy's putative attempt to explain the ways of the world. Significantly, while neither movie manages to shed much light on the world situation, both do offer some particularly gory destructions of human vital organs. Yet surely life itself transcends liver-snatching and brain drinks...
...group's string of mildly embarrassing experiments--including The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Time Bandits and Jabberwocky --Jones deftly avoids discussion. He steadfastly resists analyzing what has made any of the Python or Python-offshoot products bad or good. Nor, despite considerable hinting from several quarters, does he agree that Python humor has evolved in any particular way since its creators started dabbling in the commercial feature-film world. For him the most important comic influence remains the English tradition springing from the likes of Tristram Shandy, and after that the "goon shows" of early radio and the comic...