Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years - Brossura

Palin, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0312384882 ISBN 13: 9780312384883

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2008

Riassunto

A raucous account of the author's prime years as a member of Monty Python describes the group's international travels, battles over censorship, and collaborations on celebrated films, in an intimate record that is complemented by descriptions of Palin's present experiences as a family man. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

MICHAEL PALIN is a comedian, novelist, actor, playwright, and founding member of Monty Python. He is the author of the novel Hemingway's Chair as well as several books on the history of Monty Python, including The Pythons, and numerous travel guides, including Brazil and Sahara. He also happens to be one of the funniest people on the planet. He lives in London, England.

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"Michael Palin is not just one of Britain's foremost comedy character actors, he also talks a lot. Yap, yap, yap he goes, all day long and through the night . . . then, some nights, when everyone else has gone to bed, he goes home and writes up a diary." --John Cleese "For Palin it has been one hell of a ride, but he seems to have maintained equilibrium all along the way. . . . In sum, it's tempting to call him a Renaissance Man. But that, as any Pythonite would be quick to tell you, would be silly." --Jonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post Book World" Michael Palin has kept a diary since he was newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter, and Monty Python was just around the corner. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys--Jones and Gilliam--and Eric Idle came together and changed the face of British comedy. But this is but only part of Palin's story. Here too is his growing family, his home in a north London Victorian terrace, his solo effort as an actor," " and his writing endeavours (often in partnership with Terry Jones) that produce "Ripping Yarns" and even a pantomime. Meanwhile, Monty Python refuses to go away: his account of the making of both "The Holy Grail" and the "Life of Brian" movies are page-turners, and the sometimes extraordinary goings-on of the many powerful personalities who coalesced to form the Python team makes for funny and riveting reading. A perceptive and witty chronicle, the diaries are a rich portrait of a fascinating period."[C]harming and at times revelatory . . . A voice of (relative sanity) in the eye of a comedic storm, Palin paints so vivid a picture that the reader becomes a Python by proxy." --"The New York Times Book Review""""""It is terrifically good: funny, astute, and wonderfully written. . . . "--"The Boston Globe""""""This combination of niceness, with his natural volubility, crea

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• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312384882
• ISBN 13: 9780312384883
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 650