Diaries 1969–1979 The Python Years

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by Palin, Michael


  Bates, Simon, 602n

  Bavarian TV, 48, 59n, 85n, 86–91, 321

  Baxter, Stanley, 551

  Bayler, Terry, 423

  BBC

  first series of Monty Python, 13

  second series of Monty Python, 18, 35, 37, 49

  and Apollo 13 mission, 20

  Monty Python spin-offs, 23, 56, 60

  North Acton Rehearsal Rooms, 78

  cuts Monty Pythons third series, 88, 94–5, 99, 104

  ‘Blue and Black’ series (Secrets), 97, 98–9, 100, 103, 108, 111, 131–2

  annual parties, 100–1, 355, 424, 425

  fourth series of Monty Python, 130–1, 133, 136, 143–4, 150, 153, 163

  Omnibus film on Monty Python, 159

  films Monty Python and the Holy Grail filming, 174

  censors Monty Python, 193, 194

  and demise of Monty Python, 213, 214

  and Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 247, 253, 256, 270, 282–3, 285–6, 288

  and Pythons’ court case against ABC, 278, 355

  wipes Monty Python tapes, 362 and n

  and Ripping Yarns, 403, 408, 411, 465, 468–71, 521

  destroys Bob Dylan tape, 422

  films The Life of Brian filming, 495, 499

  decide to do no more Ripping Yarns, 509–10

  documentary on Monty Python, 560 and n

  MP offered chat show on BBC2, 560

  and possible theatrical release of Ripping Yarns, 570

  BBC Light Entertainment Group, 49

  BBC Manchester, 601, 604–5

  Beach, Jim, 284 and n, 308, 523

  Beach Boys, 81

  Beame, Abe (mayor of New York), 239

  Beatlemania (US live show), 583

  The Beatles, 95, 203–4, 367, 394, 449, 575, 576, 578, 583, 591

  Beatts, Anne, 480

  Beaumont, ‘Binkie’, 265

  Beazley (painter), 64

  Beck, Jeff, 232

  Beckinsale, Kate, 388n

  Beckinsale, Richard, 388n, 425, 540

  The Bed Before Yesterday (play), 268

  Bedford, David, 108

  Bedford, Terry, 170, 174, 179 and n, 226, 320, 333, 334–5, 340, 341

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 61, 127, 307

  Beetles, Chris, 561 and n

  Belfast, 92

  Belfast, HMS, filming Monty Python, 189

  Belgium, 105

  Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 52–3

  Bell, Alan J.W., xv, 402, 520 and n, 522, 535, 536, 537, 570

  Bell, Madeline, 189 and 190n

  Bell Inn, Charlbury, 416, 418–20

  Bellow, Saul, 459

  Bells Yew Green, East Sussex, 477

  Belsize Park, 404

  Belushi, John, 459, 460, 462, 528–9, 530, 552, 553

  Bemrose, Clive, 129

  Ben Hur (film), 352

  Ben Lawers, Perthshire, 169, 170

  Benacre Church, Suffolk, 181

  Benidorm, 196

  Benn, Tony, 602

  Bennett, Alan, 208

  On the Margin, 92

  Amnesty International show, 297, 299, 300, 301, 322

  Sunset Across the Bay, 334

  The Old Country, 462, 463

  in New York restaurant, 531

  Bennett, Hywel, 23n Benson, Jonathan, 496, 500

  Benton & Bowles Advertising Agency, 16–17

  Bergman, Ingmar, 134

  Berkeley Books, 249

  Berkeley Square Jubilee Party (1977), 394

  Berlin, 441, 449

  Berlin Film Festival, 387, 391–3

  Bernstein, Carl, The Final Days, 336 and n

  Bernstein, Leonard, 307

  Berry, Bill (plasterer), 155

  Berry, Cicely, 294, 295, 306

  Bert Fegg’s Nasty Book for Boys and Girls

  (Palin and Jones), 156 and n, 201, 218, 248–50, 252–3

  film proposal, 287, 288

  Bertolucci, Bernardo, 415

  Bethersden, Kent, 475–6, 478

  Betts, Dickie, 540, 541

  Beuselinck, Oscar, 465 and n, 559

  Beyond the Fringe (stage show), 53, 322, 562

  Bhutto, Benazir, 352–3

  Bianchi’s, Frith Street, 436

  Big Red Book (Monty Python), 65, 106–7

  Big Sur, California, 125

  Bijou Theatre, London, 534, 544, 559

  Billington, Kevin, 6n, 44

  Biolek, Alfred, 59n, 71, 86, 89, 90

  Bird, John, 10

  Amnesty International show, 299, 300, 301

  in Jabberwocky, 316, 325–6, 329

  Birdsall, Derek, 354 and n

  Birkdale Primary School, Sheffield, 114 and n, 138, 509

  Birmingham

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 114–16

  IRA bombs, 196

  Bishop, Joey, 127–8

  Biziou, Peter, 488 and n, 493

  Black, Sir Cyril, 237 and n

  Black, Peter, 131, 132

  Black Horse Hotel, Skipton, 539, 542–3

  Black Park, Buckinghamshire, 41

  Blackmoor Village, 84

  Blackneil, Lillian, 181n

  Blazing Saddles (film), 550

  Blood Sports (play), 324

  Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n, 70–1, 74

  Blooms Deli, London, 318

  Bloomsbury, 128

  Blount, Fred, 496

  ‘Blue and Black’ series, Secrets, 97, 98–9, 100, 103, 108, 111, 131–2

  Blunt, Anthony, 597–8

  and n Blythburgh Hospital, 290, 343, 357–8, 360, 361, 381–2

  Bogarde, Dirk, 321

  Bonham-Carter, Violet, 512 and n

  Bonzo Dog Band, 20

  The Book of Lists, 551

  Boomtown Rats, 601

  Boorman, John, 48

  Booth, Connie, xiii, 26–7 and n

  And Now For Something Completely Different, 43n

  cabaret engagements, 61

  Monty Python’s Bavarian TV show, 87

  and demise of Monty Python, 227

  Fawlty Towers, 254, 463

  separation from John Cleese, 265, 319

  Hunter Davies on, 367

  in Tunisia, 503

  Bordon, Hampshire, 83–4

  Borehamwood Studios, 412

  Borrows, Bill, 75

  Boston, Richard, 394n, 397, 404

  Bottell, Derek, 340

  Boult, Nicky, 585 and n

  Boundary Commission, 112n

  Bourguiba, Habib, 487, 490, 539

  Bournemouth, filming Monty Python in, 2–3

  Bovey Tracey dairy, 100

  Bowie, David, 117–18, 158

  Box, Betty, 23 and n, 26

  Boyle, Peter, 529

  Brace of Pheasants Inn, Plush, Dorset, 199–200

  Bradford, 146–7

  Bradley Field International airport, Connecticut, 526

  The Brand New Monty Python Bok, 136, 142, 143, 147, 149, 153, 194

  Brando, Marlon, 353, 369, 376, 377, 497

  Brandreth, Gyles, 146

  Brandt, Willy, 295

  Branson, Richard, 213

  Brasenose College, Oxford, 114, 413–14 and n

  Brayfield, Celia, 466

  Brazil (film), 535, 572, 577, 581, 589, 593

  Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film), 175

  Brearley, Michael, 562 and n

  Brecht, Bertolt, 345

  Brecknock Arms, Bells Yew Green, 477

  Brenton, Howard, Weapons of Happiness, 331

  Brentwood, California, 555, 556

  Bresslaw, Bernard, 329, 330, 332, 343

  Bridges, Jeff, 357n, 439n

  Brien, Alan, 376, 392 and n

  Brierley Roger, 476

  Briggs, Dr, 312–13

  Brighton, 441

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 114

  Brightside and Carbrook Co-Operative Players, 315n

  Bristol, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 114, 116

  British Airways, 270–1, 451

  British A
rmy

  Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n

  Aldershot bomb, 74

  British High Commission (Canada), 122

  British Lion, 436

  British Rail, 80, 260

  Broad, David, 586

  Broad, Graham, 586–7

  Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, 450

  Broaden Your Mind (television programme), 13

  Broadway, New York, 293

  Brodie, Ray, 274–5, 456

  Broke, Richard, xv, 103, 425, 599 and n

  Bromley, Jabberwocky’s success in, 378

  Bron, Eleanor, 299, 300, 301, 561

  Branson, Charles, 485n

  Brontë, Charlotte, 540

  Jane Eyre, 123

  Brontë sisters, 317

  Bronx Zoo, New York, 308–9

  Brooke-Taylor, Tim, xiii, II, 135, 240, 365

  cricket match in Bordon, 83, 84

  at BBC annual party, 356

  BBC rejects Goodies scripts, 399

  and Royal Variety Performance, 399

  Brooks, Mel, 231, 279

  Brown, Gaye, 292

  Brown, Joe, 390

  Brown, Mr (housekeeper in Barbados), 429, 435

  Bruce, Lenny, 231, 300, 324

  Bruin Theatre, Westwood, 556

  Brunei, 446

  Buchan, John, The Three Hostages, 425

  Buchanan House, Holborn, 368–9

  Buchanans Finest Hour (play), 315–16 and n, 319

  Buckman, Rob, 561 and n

  Buddah Records, 82, 121–2, 123, 125, 126

  The Bull, Streatley, 243

  Bull Inn, Bethersden, 475

  Bulldog Drummond stories, 63

  Buhner’s Cider, 225

  Bunting, Basil, 448–9

  Burbank Studios, Hollywood, 557, 558

  Burd, Catherine (Helen’s niece), xii, 19, 235, 279, 366 and n

  Burd, Edward (Helen’s brother-in-law), xii, 30, 34, 198–9, 358, 366, 387 and n, 481

  Burd, Mary (née Gibbins, Helen’s sister), xii, 30, 34, 198–9, 214, 235, 358, 366, 481

  Burford, Oxfordshire, 419

  Burge, Stuart, 421, 422

  Burnett, Paul, 390

  Burns, George, 26

  Burns, Milly (Designer), 329, 340

  Burns, Mr (ABC employee), 277

  Burrows, Mr (financial director of Shepperton Studios), 369

  Burton, Humphrey, 13 and n, 587

  Bush Theatre, Shepherds Bush, 324

  Bushey Lock, 244–5

  C

  Caesar, Sid, 452

  Caesar and Cleopatra (play), 265

  Café de la Plage, Monastir, 486, 504

  Cagney, James, 358

  Caine, Marti, 433 and n

  Caine, Michael, 432, 433

  Cairo Film Festival, 410

  Cale, John, 307

  Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, 514

  Caledonian Road, London, 43–4

  Calgary, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 122

  Call My Bluff (television programme), 195

  Callaghan, Jim, 469

  Callander, filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail in, 177, 179

  Calley, John, 523–4, 544, 555, 568–9, 580, 583

  Callow, Simon, 324, 339

  Caiman, Mel, 442 and n, 600

  Camber Sands, Sussex, 31

  Cambridge, 19

  Cambridge Theatre Company, 521

  Cambridge Union, 552

  Cambridge University, 128–9

  Camden Council, 14n, 93, 109

  Camden Lock, 281

  Camden Playgroup, 559

  Camden Swimming Gala, 564

  Camden Theatre, London, 23

  Camden Town, 380

  Cameron, James, 238, 604

  An Indian Summer, 244

  Cammillieri, Mr (Italian tutor), 182, 183

  Campaign Magazine, 422

  Camus, Albert, L’Étranger, 285

  Canada, 75

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 119–24, 150

  Canby, Vincent, 378–9, 571

  Cannan, Denis, 347n

  Cannes Film Festival, 102, 550

  The Canterbury Tales (film) 146

  Cantor, Arthur, 252, 265, 266, 268, 284

  Cape Cornwall, 538

  Capital Radio, 132, 347, 373

  Capote, Truman, 454, 455

  The Car versus the People (BBC documentary), 54

  Carew, Elaine, 339 and n, 501, 599

  Caribbean

  Palin family holiday in Tobago, 360

  The Life of Brian rewrites in Barbados, 398, 421, 428–35, 519

  Carlin, George, 531

  Carlisle Arms, London, 532

  Carmichael, Hoagy, 577 and n

  Carreras, Michael, 444 and n

  Carroll, Donald, 590, 591

  Carson, Jack, 126

  Carson, Johnny, 127

  Carter, Jeff, 461

  Carter jimmy, 385

  Carthage, Tunisia, 507–8

  Casey, Pat, 22

  Casino cinema, Soho, 211, 212, 357

  The Casserole, King’s Road, 133–4

  Castiglione della Pescaia, 128

  Castle Carew, Monmouthshire, 341

  Catholics, Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n, 70–1

  Cave, Bags, 129

  Cavett, Dick, 232

  CBC, 119, 120

  CBC Canada, 209, 212

  CBS, 311

  CBS Records, 266

  Ceauçescu, Nicolae, 595

  Celebrity magazine, 333

  Cellan Jones, James, 108, 111, 131

  Cellier, Peter, 325, 330

  Cenac, 34

  Central Hotel, Glasgow, 51

  Central Park, New York, 216–17, 222, 576

  Chambers, Aidan, 584

  Chandler, Raymond, 87, 125

  Channel 13 (US), 217, 221, 458

  Chapman, Graham, xiii

  The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 6, 44

  homosexuality, 30

  charity shows, 35–6

  and Helens pregnancy, 42

  Guinness commercial, 45

  as a host, 48–9

  hates carpets, 73

  alcohol problems, 79, 113, 344, 388, 396–7, 398, 427

  and Terry’s mother’s death, 89–90

  needs to earn money, 98

 

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