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Indlæser... Diaries 1969-1979 : the Python years (original 2006; udgave 2006)af Michael Palin
Work InformationThe Python Years: Diaries 1969-1979 af Michael Palin (2006)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Michael Palin is such an adorable little man A terrific book. My original plan was to bring it on vacation sometime, as it's 600 pages of small print and I figured it would be something to read by a pool. That never happened (since the book is the size of a cinderblock) so I just picked it and started reading it at home. I'm glad I did. Python fans (and who else would read it?) will appreciate the descriptions of how the team worked together--but they will also find all of the other projects and people orbiting the Pythons just as interesting. There's great stuff about life in 1970s London (the IRA was always hovering in the background), the other TV shows Palin wrote, his trips to NYC to host Saturday Night Live and many entries about his father, whose health worsens with the decade. The best feature of the Diaries is their absolute lack of pretentiousness or sentimentality: we don't get long passages about how much he loves his wife or kids; we don't get political screeds; instead, we get what it was like to go to Tunisia to make The Life of Brian, Graham Chapman's hollow leg (and subsequent getting on the wagon), and the Pythons' record and film deals. Palin comes across as likable and decent. For the fan, highly recommended. I'll read the next volume in a few months. I love Monty Python, and looked forward to hearing some of the behind scenes of how their creative processes worked together. In that, this book did not disappoint. It is a diary, however. And as with any of us, much of Palin's life described therein is filed with the daily mundane that is less interesting. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Michael Palin's diaries begin when he was newly married and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of television comedy. But Monty Python was just around the corner . . . Enjoying an unlikely cult status early on, the Pythons then proceeded to tour the USA and Canada. As their popularity grew, so Palin relates how the group went their separate ways, later to re-form for stage shows and the celebrated films THE HOLY GRAIL and LIFE OF BRIAN. Living through the three-day week and the miners strike, and all the trials of a peripatetic life are also essential ingredients of these perceptive and funny diaries. No library descriptions found. |
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