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Creativity is not talent ... It is a way of operating.
And John Cleese has even weighed into the debate.
In one blissful moment, she turned chummily to the camera and said, ‘We are always asking, what did the Romans ever do for us?’ But you see, we’re not always asking. That was John Cleese. Then it struck me who Beard reminded me of: she’s Michael Palin as Obadiah the boring prophet in Life of Brian. Look it up on the Book of YouTube.More quotes »
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Goldberg: An Etch A Sketch slip
old "Fawlty Towers" scene (if you're unfamiliar with the 1970s British sitcom, hie thyself to YouTube !) in which Basil Fawlty ( John Cleese ), an innkeeper, welcomes some German patrons. He gives explicit orders to everyone: "Don't mention the war!" He then Read more »
Around the web
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You really, really don't like rose
Some of that was certainly the holiday weekend. But the Monday Memorial Day post, featuring John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, did better than the rose posts. So did last year’s regional wine week posts, which usually solicit tired yawns. I can see I have my w from The Wine Curmudgeon Read more »
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Skios, By Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn's play Noises Off is sometimes described as a farce about a farce. Well by that judgement, his new novel Skios is a step backwards. It's simply a farce. A rattling paced and amusing one, but a routine, identity-mistaking, bedroom-door-slamm from The Independent Read more »
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Sundown: Romney and the Jewish Vote
Plus the problem with the new Arabic Talmud, and more • Shmuel Rosner has the full skinny on how much of the Jewish vote Mitt Romney could, could not, and in fact may get. Sounds to me like 30 percent may come to be a rough threshold? [Jewish Journal Ros from Tablet Magazine Read more »
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TV: TV Club: The Muppet Show, “Episode 223: John Cleese”/“Episode 224: Cloris Leachman”
The Muppets’ flare for the comedically absurd has its roots in multiple sources: Sam And Friends borrowed liberally from the catalogues of Stan Freberg and Spike Jones; the characters’ skill with snappy wordplay falls somewhere between The Marx Brothers from The A.V. Club Read more »
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John Cleese Hated Hollywood Script Changes
The 72-year-old Monty Python legend, who wrote and co-starred in 1988 hit A Fish Called Wanda, penned some comedy material in the early 2000s which he was hoping to turn into a movie, but he walked away when he was forced to make several changes. He tell from IMDB Read more »
