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...next six weeks, watching audiotapes and reading books." Driving from place to place, often without hotel reservations, the daughters set a frantic pace. Although Michael kept up, it was sometimes a struggle for him. Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires, leaped from the Sky Tower--the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere--in what is called a controlled BASE jump. At the trip's end, he thanked...
...Both cinemas in the Faroe Islands, a Danish territory, are refusing to show the adaptation of Dan Brown's blockbuster novel on grounds of sacrilege. This isn't the first film banned there. Monty Python's Life of Brian was nixed for its naughty nuances...
Thursday, April 27-Saturday, April 29.7:30 p.m. Agassiz Theatre. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office. $5. “A little bit Buñuel, a little bit Chaplin, and a little bit Monty Python,” is the description offered by director Claire E. Catenaccio ’07 of The Harvard Classical Club’s upcoming production of Aristophanes’s “The Birds,” which premiered yesterday in the Agassiz Theatre. The comedy, which dates from the fifth century B.C., chronicles the misadventures of two idealistic Athenians, Pisthetairos...
...stores. So he asked the carpenter who makes the hard-case luggage to construct a few small pieces. The result is an entire line of furniture that will be sold exclusively at Bottega Veneta stores. The 20 styles?from a simple side table or small dining table to a python-skin bookcase?can be custom-ordered in a wide range of materials. "When we started the line, we thought about furniture as an accessory," says Maier, the brand's creative director. "I'm always moving things around in my house, and that kind of furniture is very hard to find?...
...else—mediocrity. So when the rare show comes along that aspires to break through the familiar mold, it’s usually a welcome surprise. “Spamalot”—the musical adaptation of the 1975 classic comedy film “Monty Python & The Holy Grail”—has been and still is certainly welcome, if not quite that surprising. “Spamalot” premiered in Chicago and New York in late 2004 and early 2005, respectively, and since then, it has enjoyed tremendous financial success under...