Studios were unwilling to finance Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so the film's creatives turned to some major rock acts ...
Monty Python star John Cleese is celebrating a major milestone — he celebrates his 86th birthday today! While British comedy legend has admitted that growing older can be difficult, especially when it ...
Reflecting on the latter years of his friendship with Terry Jones, Sir Michael Palin says that even as dementia took many ...
Eric Idle has revealed George Harrison had a surprisingly morbid but uplifting way of comforting his friends – by reminding ...
Movies like Psycho and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are widely considered masterpieces, but their infamous endings are ...
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The Invention of the Modern Self

Books & the Arts / How did the idea of the individual come into being? David A. Bell In that classic of Western cinema, Monty ...
Monty Python star John Cleese spoke to Sally Nugent and Jon Kay on BBC Breakfast about his Fawlty Towers co-star Prunella ...
Britain arrests 12,000 people yearly for online speech, including non-residents like Irish comedian Graham Linehan. Free ...
There's a funny scene in "The Life of Brian," the controversial 1979 movie from the Monty Python chaps. Brian, a Jewish zealot, played by Graham Chapman, paints "Romans go home" on the walls of ...
The benefit of fragmentation is the central idea of Scheidel’s Escape from Rome, published in 2019. The idea was not new. But ...
The paper reports that the King made the decision to strip his brother of his titles after he was heckled over Andrew's links ...
Terry Jones' statue in north Wales, celebrating him as the Nude Organist from Monty Python's Flying Circus, will be unveiled ...