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...house, is providing a lavish reminder that the six did have productive careers beyond their 20s by presenting Pythonalot, a two-week retrospective of the canon films, plus Cleese's A Fish Called Wanda and Gilliam's always-worth-reseeing Jabberwocky, Time Bandits and Brazil. True to the absurdist spirit of Python, a disclaimer on the Film Forum webpage reads: "SPAM? IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK OF HORMEL FOODS CORP. PYTHON AND ALOT ADAPTED FROM MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT LOGO. USED WITH PERMISSION...
...Every sperm is great / If a sperm is wasted / God gets quite irate") could be choraled today by half the U.S. Senate. These musical interludes set the Monty-men firmly in the tradition of the English variety show, as well as making Spamalot less a break with the Python spirit than a natural continuation...
...least one of the Beatles saw the connection. "George Harrison was always convinced that Python was the spirit of the Beatles kept alive," Gilliam notes in The Pythons, "because we started the year they broke up. George was convinced there was this transference of spiritual essence." (Another fan, apparently, was Elvis, who is said to have watched MP&HG at least five times.) Harrison's company, Handmade Films, produced Life of Brian and Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, then subsidized many of the projects starring or written by members of the splintered troupe: Gilliam's Time Bandits, Palin...
Last week we announced a partnership with the U.S. government and the Case Foundation to install 4,000 water pumps in 10 African nations, bringing clean water to as many as 10 million people. That same spirit of innovation is showing up in other public-private collaborations. In partnership with the Pfizer drug company, the U.S. is working to tackle tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS. In partnership with Starbucks and the government of Rwanda, the U.S. supports farmers developing specialty coffee. The U.S. helps rebuild the country's infrastructure and coffee-washing stations, while Starbucks provides training and expertise to improve...
...cyclones, mining and mythology. A Waanyi woman born in the southern uplands of the Gulf country, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Wright has spent much of her life away from its fecund waterways, working in Aboriginal research and advocacy in Alice Springs and Melbourne, where she now lives. But in spirit she's still there?"It's clear," she says, "clear water, full of water lilies and turtles and fish." To read the magisterial Carpentaria (Giramondo; 519 pages) is to enter Wright's world. What's evoked is not just a physical place, where "you could swear you heard the daydreams...