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Edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Includes a fumetti starring John Cleese of Monty Python fame; a Fritz the Cat two page story by Robert Crumb; "WONDER WART-HOG, ENCOUNTERS SUPER GRANNY" by Gilbert Shelton; "HARVEY KURTZMAN'S FUN AND GAMES"; and a photo of Associate Editor Terry Gilliam on the editorial page ... Read more

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Welcome to my Amazon storefront. All comics & magazines are bagged & boarded, and in near mint condition (unless otherwise noted). Standard shipping for one single magazine is $3.99, and only .25 more for each additional single magazine when you order at one time (the excess shipping is refunded after magazines are shipped). This listing is for Cinefantastique Vol. 19 #4 (near mint). ... Read more

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Edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Includes "A THOUSAND PICTURES WORTH ONE WORD," art and story by Harvey Kurtzman; "JACK DAVIS MEETS THE METS" by Jack Davis; "THE UNMENTIONABLES" fumetti story with Woody Allen, Judy Henske and Terry Gilliam; and a cartoon by Wally Wood ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary.Chapters: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows the leader of a traveling theater troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations. Heath Ledger, Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, and Tom Waits star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character Tony as he travels through a dream world. The film's world premiere was during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. The UK release of the film was scheduled for 6 June 2009 but pushed back to 16 October 2009 due to its successful premiere at Cannes. The film was given a limited release in the US on Christmas Day 2009 and a nationwide expansion on 8 January 2010. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus was nominated for two Academy Awards in the categories Best Art Direction (art directed by Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro, and set decorated by Caroline Smith; lost to Avatar) and Best Costume Design (costumes designed by Monique Prudhomme; lost to The Young Victoria). Doctor Parnassus' (Christopher Plummer) theatre troupe, which includes sleight of hand expert Anton (Andrew Garfield), confidant Percy (Verne Troyer), and Parnassus' daughter Valentina (Lily Cole), performs outside a pub in London. A drunkard barges onstage, crashing through a stage mirror. He is thrown into a journey of the imagination that culminates in his being of...http://booksllc.net/?id=11312191 ... Read more

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Edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Includes "WONDER WART-HOG MEETS SUPER-HYPNOTIST!" by Gilbert Shelton; cartoons by Skip Williamson and Terry Gilliam; "THE GREAT WASHINGTON MARCH" by Paul Coker and Charles Alverson; and reprints of "Mutt and Jeff" by Bud Fisher ... Read more

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Kapitel: Terry Gilliam, Das Leben Des Brian, John Cleese, Der Sinn Des Lebens, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Golden Age of Ballooning, Monty Pythons Wunderbare Welt Der Schwerkraft, Die Ritter Der Kokosnuß, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Die Spanische Inquisition, Fußballspiel Der Philosophen, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Terry Jones, Holzfäller-Lied, Graham Chapman, Dotterbart, Der Papagei Ist Tot, Das Ministerium Für Alberne Gänge, Monty Python's Spamalot, Der Tödlichste Witz Der Welt, Kommunisten-Quiz-Sketch, Neil Innes, Spam-Sketch, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Four-Yorkshiremen-Sketch, Doune Castle, Monty Python Live at Drury Lane, How to Irritate People, Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus, Carol Cleveland, Castle Stalker, Connie Booth, Hms Defiant. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music. The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, they changed the way performers entertained audiences. The Pythons' creative contr...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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Not that big...or particularly red.Pages of silliness based on the original television series. ... Read more

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thin python is better than no python
It isn't huge.It's laced with themes from the tv shows.

But there are opportunities unique to the form:

ACCEPT ANY 3 of these great classics entirely FREE as your introduction to the THE PYTHON GUILD and you get one free tub of dung (tick if required).

Need I say more?

red
Monty Python's Big Red Book has a lot of material from the show, which makes it a good one. This may not take you that long to read, but I think it'll be worth it. I first read this over my friend's house a few years ago, and I thought it was cool, so I got myself a copy.I'm surprised the spam song is in it with the lumberjack song. It's a nice thing to read right before you go to bed.Look, just read it yourself and see what you think.

Bigger rip-off than final rip-off
First of all, this book is neither big, nor red. It's quite thin actually, and is blue. There is limited new material in it, and the actual new material isn't very special. This doesn't seem like a Monty Python product at all. It was probably thrown together at the last minute. I purchased this today, finished it an hour ago, and I'm still frustrated with it. However, I purchased the "First 280 years of Monty Python" book, and really like it so far. "The Pythons" is also good, but is kind of all over the place, but "280 years" is mainly focused on the television show. So in conclusion, hesitate on this one, unless you think it will bethe last Python book you'll ever buy.

Blue
Inevitably, this is a big blue book. My hardback copy dates from 1971, and originally cost 1.50 ukp. It's a fairly slim collection of material based around the first couple of series of the show - an advertisement for'Whizzo Chocolate Assortment', a series of introductions fromincreasingly-flustered newsreaders, pages of classified ads, and more thana few naked women. It's much less effective than the television show - thetranscriptions lose a lot without the delivery, and the original bits seemrushed. It has recently been re-released, and you can probably read it allwhilst standing up in the shop. ... Read more

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A Private Word to the Reader

You are currently holding in your hand . . .

. . . well, actually, God knows what you are holding in your hand, you are after all adults, and what you hold in your own right hand is entirely up to you . . .

. . . you may, after all, have this in your left hand and something else in your right hand and you will probably have held far worse things in both your hands than this . . . and hey! . . . No! . . .

Stop that! Miss Johansson, I said, "Please hold my calls . . ." Honestly. Hollywood!

Anyway, what you are about to read--or have read to you--is a new book that is the first active collaboration of the Monty Python chaps for many, many years. In fact, the first book written and produced by the Pythons, themselves, since 1979. No, they are not all dead. Okay, some of them have been a bit quiet recently, and one or two have DNR notes by their bedsides, but the point is five of them are still technically alive and that, if not exactly cause for rejoicing, may well be cause for a new book. And this is it!

So hold whatever you like in your right hand while you read this book. Because laughter is jolly good for you. Even if it can make you blind.

--The Pythons

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Perfect for Python fans, young and old!
What a great read!With a surprisingly sizable compilation of photos, stories and scripts from the Python touring years, I was very happy that the book surpassed my already hopeful expectations.

The rich and colorful graphics are classic Python and I loved that so many of the stories and photos in the book were new to me.

This is a right treat for Pyth fans, my family has been cracking up non-stop reciting our favorite lines!

Good But Not Great
I am a huge Python fan and was looking forward to this book a great deal.Although I am generally happy with it I can't help but be a little disappointed.

The idea of the book is a good one: a chronicle of the Python's 70's tours of England, Canada and the U.S. and their early 80's appearance at the Hollywood Bowl.All six Pythons contribute (Graham's comments are from his book "A Liar's Autobiography") as do Neil Innes, Carol Cleveland and several others around the Python's orbit.There's some very funny stories about the tours but most hardcore Python fans will have heard the majority of these tales several times before over the years.However it is nice to have all these stories and comments laid out well and in chronological order.

That's the good part.

The bad part is that the stories of the tours take up less than half the book.The majority of the book are scripts of sketches that have been reprinted many times before.Do we really need to see the script of 'Dead Parrot' again?

The photos are generally quite good (I had not seen a number of them before) and the programme from the Hollywood Bowl show is an especially nice touch.The book is very well put together and it's great to have a product that all the Pythons at least put a little time into.Eric Idle should be commended for his editing of the material.

All in all I think most serious Python fans will want to check this out and it makes an oddly nice companion to the other recent Python book Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian which chronicles the Python's filming of 'Life of Brian' in the late 70's.If you love Python like I do then you should pick this one up.If you're a so-so Python fan then you can probably do better with The First 28 Years of Monty Python, Revised Edition or Monty Python Speaks.



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overall alright
I'd have to agree with the review above, you definitely have to be a fan in order to get enjoyment out of this.Myself, being a huge fan of Gilliams trilogy was delighted to find this book on perhaps my favorite of aforementioned trilogy.

That being said, it is a script, it is going to be a little bland/dry, not what I would call a quick read.However, it gets 4 stars due to the new material in it(spider ladies), and giving me another medium through which I can enjoy Time Bandits.

Not Free SF Reader
The crazy antics of a kid and a whole lot of short guys and other people in, through, and around the timestream.However, I found this a bit on the dull side and did struggle to get through reading it at the time.Somewhat disappoing from that point of view, and I can't recommend it unless you are a big fan.


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ver thirty years ago a group of five Englishmen and one wayward American rewrote the rules of comedy. Monty Python's Flying Circus, an unheralded half-hour of sketches, hilarities, inanities, and animations first appeared on the BBC late one night in 1969. Its impact on the world has been felt ever since. The Pythons is the ultimate word on all things Python-esque. Thirty years of insight, hindsight, and bad sight-now told for the first time. It's full of stuff they're never remembered before alongside stories they'd forgotten to say, coupled with things they couldn't say then and even more things they can't pronounce now (with a healthy dollop of things they would never have said in the first place if any others had been in the room at the time). Here is a unique look at arguably the most important comic team of the modern age. In the style of The Beatles Anthology, it's lavishly illustrated with 1,000 photographs and illustrations, many seen here for the first time. Do you want Spam with that?Amazon.com Review
Python fans will need to clear a large space on their bookshelf or coffee table for The Pythons--a big, vital autobiography of the comedy troupe. This is an oral history by the six members (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin) from birth to--in the case of Chapman--death. We get reminisces about childhood, university days, early successes, and rich details about the landmark Flying Circus TV series and subsequent films. The voices are fresh (with expectation of Michael Palin's insightful diary entries), not just complied from earlier publications. "Due to his insistence of being inconveniently dead," Chapham's voice is heard through his longtime partner David Sherlock, his brother and sister-in-law (and some archival materials). As a whole, the six impart a refreshing ability to deal honestly with the frustrations that arose over the years and it comes out in the text even when events are recalled differently. The book is not a light read (figuratively and literally), perhaps a smaller size would have been better for the amount of text; a cursory glance at the coffee table is tough. What does fill the book is an abundance of photos (over 1,000), most never published and many from the troupe's private collections. Along with concept sketches, Gilliam's drawings and doodles, and a few correspondences, this is a keepsake memento of the legendary group. --Doug Thomas ... Read more

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Insert Laugh Here
The Pythons turn the mirror on themselves and try to explain where all of the brilliance came from.Not a book to read in the library!!!

Simply Awesome
This giant photo-riffic book is the Python equivalent of the now-standard Beatles Anthology. No fan of Cleese, Palin, Jones, Idle, Chapman and Gilliam should be without it.

The Pythons
After purchasing the complete set of DVD's and laughing so hard I was sick, I just had to find out out they did it.This book answered my question.I enjoyed it, but it was a bit long and somewhat redundant.

depressing
This is probably the most accurate history of the Monty Python television program and films.

It reveals the impressing background of the players and their problems in working together which resulted in their dispersing and ill will with each other.

Intriguing but flawed like most oral histories-for the true fan
THE PYTHONS is a must for fans of the group but for the more casual reader it probably won't serve a purpose. It is an oral history of the group with contributions by the living members and statements culled from the late Graham Chapman's auto-biography. (A very funny book, but one that needs to be taken with a 16 ton grain of salt)If you are looking for specifics of how any of this marvelous group put together their sketches, look elsewhere; this is not a breakdown of how Monty Python's Flying Circus came to be, rather it is a bunch of reminiscences of early life, working together( and who worked with whom) and some still not quite healed wounds. Chapman comes off poorly, his drinking a constantly mentioned problem, Gilliam's story is so separate from the rest that he really doesn't seem to be a member of the group until The Holy Grail, although his animations were a key to the show's success, and Cleese is often seen here as standoffish, a bit out of the mix with the others. Memories often don't jibe for each member, an example being who chose "The Liberty March" as the theme, Palin lays claim to it as does Gilliam (with Idle agreeing with Gilliam.)But it is interesting to see how the group's personalities come forward as time goes on, and it does give some insight into the creative processes behind the scenes even though it does fall short of offering the aforementioned specifics. there are a number of great stories here and well worth the time (and strength!) to read this book. I did enjoy this slightly askew look at one of comedy's most influential and funniest groups ever; I just have difficulty recommending it to anyone but the converted. ... Read more

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Perhaps the ultimate in TV comedy madness and absurdity, this cult series, which began in 1969, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, and Terry Jones. Its innovative and ground-breaking comedy inspired many of today's writers and performers. Its sketches, songs, and catchphrases are legendary, and this "best of" disc features: the dead parrot, the Ministry of Silly Walks, The Lumberjack Song, And Now for Something Completely Different, and many more.

Presented on 1 CD, starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. ... Read more

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And now for something completely different ..........
This is a very funny collection of material from our friends in the UK. I highly recommend that you play this CD on the way to work in the morning, to give you a non-caffeine "lift". ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Bank Marketing, published by Bank Marketing Assn. on December 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1969 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Banks that are able to tap the creative skills of employees so that innovation becomes an integral part of their corporate culture are likely to become the dominant forces in the market-driven environment of the 1990s. The examples of J.P. Morgan, which reinvented corporate banking in the 1980s, and Banc One, which did the same in retail banking, are proof that innovation can be a bank's most formidable competitive tool. Managing creativity to enhance innovation is not necessarily a complicated idea. While management styles differ, the basic logic remains the same. Managing creativity is simply the art of bringing together people with diverse backgrounds and allowing them to work as a team so that they can direct their efforts to the solution of specific problems, such as product development or sales improvement. One important step that can be taken to make such creative teams work would be to provide members with the resources to implement their ideas.

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Title: Managing the power of creativity.
Author: Terry K. Gilliam
Publication: Bank Marketing (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1993
Publisher: Bank Marketing Assn.
Volume: v25Issue: n12Page: p14(4)

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