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...manner to its finest flowering, less elaborate than Disney's, but often far funnier. This modest retrospective provides a fine occasion to salute an American original working in a medium that will never get its critical due, but continues to exercise a mighty claim on affectionate memory. -Richard Schickel...
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Python's Venom The last paragraph of Richard Schickel's review of Monty Python's Life of Brian [Sept. 17] refers to "adults who have not had their basic premises offended, and therefore have not examined them, in too long." I don't know any adults -myself included-who don't have their basic premises offended nearly every day, and aren't constantly being called to reexamine, defend or reject them. Where in the world are these sheltered adults about whom Schickel speaks? Monty Python is so funny I will probably see the movie...
...Schickel's use of the word "daring" to describe this movie is inappropriate...