Word: pythonism
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...them. They seem to be easygoing and unpretentious. Despite their irreverence, they aren't a pair of would-be Lenny Bruces living on comedy's dangerous edge. Whatever one's view of South Park, it's hard to dislike two filmmakers whose greatest heroes are the members of Monty Python and who talk about them with such enthusiasm. "To this day, when our heads are getting a little big," Stone says, "if we go and put on an old Flying Circus or something, you just watch that and you're like, 'What the hell are we doing?'" The two take...
...This is not a pig-in-a-python effect," he said, "The demographics are changing for the long term...
That's what 40 high-tech executives, two journalists and one Monty Python alumnus had to decide. After receiving a similar sequence of electronic messages last month, Microsoft executive Marty Behrens referred the matter to in-house counsel. Software entrepreneur Moses Ma called the cops. MGM executive Ken Locker dashed off a formal memo to Dysson: "If there is any type of investigation in this matter, it is my fiduciary responsibility to inform MGM corporate security...
...Dysson pitchees had taken the suicide reports quite seriously and were not amused to learn that someone had been playing with their head. "You should be ashamed of yourself," wrote New York Times technology columnist Denise Caruso. "This is the most unbelievably crass thing I've ever seen." Former Python actor Eric Idle posted a lengthy anti-Dysson manifesto on the Website PythOnline. "This was simply exploitation," he told TIME. "If I came barging in your door threatening you and then told you it was just entertainment, how would you feel...
...thoroughly familiar with, having spent six years there, from 1986 to 1992, as bureau chief for the Christian Science Monitor and the Boston Globe. Along with a grounding in Russian language and history, he says, "the most crucial tool for understanding the place is a thorough knowledge of Monty Python. Only this enables you to fully grasp the whiplash-like changes, from comedy to tragedy and sobriety to surrealism." A nose for news helps: Quinn-Judge was already at work on a story about infighting in the Kremlin when the firing of General Lebed proved the prescience of his reporting...