at BBC annual party, 100–1
and David Hemmings, 118
watches Secrets, 131
phone call wakes MP up, 134
Film Night interview, 174
at the Angel, Highgate, 183
‘Michael Ellis’ script, 183, 184
shabbiness of house, 185
breaks bone in foot, 207
voice-overs, 225
interviewed by Yugoslav journalist, 248
likes Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 262, 282
Amnesty International show, 301
becomes film producer, 319, 321
tenth anniversary party, 326
projects collapse, 344
and Jabberwocky, 374
charity football matches, 390, 413
Odd Job, 410, 432n, 440, 443, 571
article in Melody Maker, 424, 425–6
in hospital, 427
stops drinking, 427, 428, 430–1, 484
suffers nervous breakdown, 428
cars, 484, 576
in MP’s dream, 493
see also And Now For Something Completely Different; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Chapter One (magazine), 576
Charisma Records, 56n, 94, 104n, 190, 209
Another Monty Python Record, 61–2
lunchtime meetings, 136
Live at Drury Lane, 180, 185
financial problems, 194, 195
premiere of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 226
Monty Python stage show in New York, 306
Charlbury, Oxfordshire, 416, 418–19, 433
Charles jeanette, 557–8
Charles, Prince of Wales, 440
Charley O’s, New York, 453, 457, 529
Charlie Bubbles (film), 101, 102, 208n
Charlton, Val, 516 and n
Charney Manor, Oxfordshire, 416
Chase, Chevy, 334, 453 and n, 459
Chase, Ned, 249
Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, 538, 555, 556, 558
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 407
Chekhov, Anton, 458
Chelsea Football Club, 135
Chepstow Castle, Monmouthshire, 314, 341–2
Chequers, Buckinghamshire, 433
Chess wood, 55
Cheung-Cheung-Ki, Wardour Street, 224
Chez Victor, Wardour Street, 45
Chicago Seven, 229
Children’s Film Foundation, 287
Chile, communist government overthrown, 136
The Chilites, 457, 459, 462
Chinese New Year, 440
Chislehurst, 74
Christ Recrucified (television programme), 8
Christian, Roger, 485
Church Farm, Abbotsley, 389
Churchill, Winston, 399, 429, 433, 438, 449
CID, at charity football match, 390
Cinderella (pantomime), 605
Cinema-5, 230, 379, 579
Cinema Am Zoo, Berlin, 392
Cinema One, New York, 377, 387, 571, 572
Circus World Championships, 425
Citizen Kane (film), 510
Citizens Against Blasphemy, 577
Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, 51, 327
City Center Theater, New York, 252
Clapton Orient, Monty Python football match, 83
Clare College, Cambridge, 128–9
Cleese, john, xiii
on MP, xvii, 111
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 6, 44
MP writes with, 6–7
Labour Party film, 22
charity shows, 35
Doctor at Large, 50
cabaret engagements, 57–9 and n, 61, 69–70
May Day show (1971), 57
fancy-dress squash match, 64
breaks away from Pythons, 65, 74, 98, 130–1, 132, 135, 150, 171–2, 225
cricket match in Bordon, 83, 84
MP shares hotel room with, 89
air travel, 91
Hunky Chunks commercials, 91
opposition to American tour, 121–2, 123
industrial relations films, 122, 132
voice-overs, 132, 197
literary lunch, 147
MP dreams about, 185
Sunday Express apologises to, 234, 236
Fawlty Towers, 24n, 254, 261, 264, 372, 463, 522, 534, 536
separation from Connie, 265, 319
and Jabberwocky, 294, 316, 374
Amnesty International show, 298, 300, 301
Rolls Royce, 348, 576
and Christopher Matthews’ column, 365
Sunday Times article on, 307, 368
on Tim Brooke-Taylor, 399
tired of England, 402
charity football matches, 413
Graham Chapman has nervous breakdown, 428
new house, 444
sees The Old Country with MP, 462, 463
and Video Arts, 463, 523n
Cleese Theory of Convenience, 486, 487
on Graham Chapman, 489
in therapy, 492
and his father’s death, 497
wants to be in Ripping Yarns, 536, 542–3
Los Angeles stage show, 544
in Hull without Good Food Guide, 551
The Secret Policeman’s Ball, 560–1, 562, 563
book collection, 562
‘interviews with our mothers’, 582
Pythonised travelogue, 582 and n
on Today programme, 592–3
on Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 594–596
at Friar Park, 601
see also And Now For Something Completely Different; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Monty Python’s Life of Brian
Clement, Dick, 542
Clerkenwell Green, 422–3
Cleveland, Carol, xiv, 190, 498
filming in Torquay, 26 and n
‘First Farewell Tour’, 114, 115, 119, 123
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 173, 174
Monty Python show in New York, 302
burgled in New York, 308
Clifton Arms, St John’s Wood, 351
Cliveden Reach, River Thames, 242
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film), 448
Close Theatre Club, Glasgow, 52
Clough, Philip, 408
Cobb, Lee J, 448
Codron, Michael, 133n, 139–40, 469, 534
Coffey, Denise, ix
Coghill, Toby, 587
Cohen, Nat, 212
Colchester, 382
Cole, Johnny, 341
Coleman, John, 415
Colindale, 106
Collett, David, 573 and n
Colley, Ken, 383, 423, 473, 505
Collins, Paul, 42 and n
Columbia Cinema, London, 65, 366, 371, 373–4, 381
Columbia Pictures, 84, 121, 211
Comedians (play), 540
Comedy Theatre, London, 133n, 139–40
Commodore Hotel, New York, 232
Common Market, 192
The Complete and Utter History of Britain (television programme), ix, 20n, 40, 186
Concorde, 450, 451, 519, 525–7, 530, 550, 580
Cordon, Bet, 250, 251
Conlon, Henry, 250
Conlon, Steve, 249, 250–1, 252–3, 303–4
Connaught Hotel, London, 361
Connecticut, 250–1, 578
Connolly, Billy, 36n
Conservative Party, 22, 78–9
1970 general election, 27, 28
objections to pop festivals, 80
February l974 election, 155–6, 157, 158
October 1974 election, 193
local government elections (1977), 385, 386
attitude to Churchill, 438
Constable, John, MP visits Tate exhibition, 298
Convoy (film), 436
Cook, Peter, 326, 485
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, 44, 45
Amnesty International show, 296–7, 300, 301
see
s The Life of Brian, 544
The Secret Policeman’s Ball, 561, 562, 563
Cooper, Jack, 549 and n, 566, 588, 597, 608
Cooper, July, 147, 590
Cooper, Liz, 549n, 588, 608
Coq Égptien, Monastir, 486, 488, 494, 498, 504
Corbett, Harry H, 316, 323, 327, 329–30, 338, 343
Corbett, Ronnie, 31, 47, 114
Coren, Alan, 282, 437, 468
Cornwall, 535, 538, 570, 571
Corona lemonade commercial, 132
Coronet Viewing Theatre, Wardour Street, 356
Costa, Sam, 2 and n
Cotton, Bill Jnr, xv, 362
and censorship of Monty Python, 79, 88, 99
BBC annual party, 100–1
denies dropping Monty Python, 104
discusses fourth series of Monty Python, 130–1, 133
likes Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 288
and Ripping Yams, 388
County Hotel, Durham, 383
Covehithe, 9
Covent Garden, 549
redevelopment scheme, 107, 202, 296, 364
street festival, 483
Coventry, 52–3, 113
Coventry Festival, 98
Coverite Asphalters, 154
Coward, Noël, 306, 450, 581
Cowdrey, Colin, 12
Craighurst Hotel, Southwold, 9
Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh, 168 and n
Cranham, Ken, 6 and n
Cranston, Liz, 383 and n
Cranston Street Hall, Edinburgh, 514n
Crapaud, Monsieur (toad), 481
Crawford, Michael, 294
Crawford Street, London, 64
Cribbins, Bernard, 292
Cries and Whispers (film), 134
Cripps, Harry, 83
Crisp, Sir Frank, 259, 512 and n
Critics’ Circle awards, 103
Cromwell, Oliver, 188
Cross Keys, West Marton, 542
Crowden, Graham, 331
Crown Film Unit Studios, 283–4
Crown Hotel, Framlingham, 152
Crucible Studio, Sheffield, 421–2
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, 234 and n, 315–16, 363, 534
The Cruel Sea (film), 345
Cryer, Barry, 73 and n, 114, 131, 135, 207, 257, 326, 398, 428
Cryer, Terry, 73
Crystal Palace Park, London, 317
Curran, Paul, 327, 337
Current (US audio magazine), 82
Currer family, 540
Curry, Tim, 235, 240, 241–6, 245n, 248, 255, 256
‘Curse of the Claw’ see Ripping Yarns
Curtin, Jane, 459, 529n
Curtis, Tony, 86
Curzon Cinema, London, 151
‘Custard Pie’ (lecture on slapstick), 292–3 and n
Cuthbertson, Iain, 314, 339
Cutler’s Hall, Sheffield, 515
Cutty Sark, 134
D
Daft as a Brush (television film), 255
Daily Express, 37
on Monty Python, 13
reviews Secrets, 131
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 176, 227
Nelson’s last words, 504
Daily Mail, 39
and possible demise of Monty Python, 104, 226
reviews Secrets, 131
reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 227
reviews Ripping Yams, 410
Daily Mirror, 95, 300, 331, 427
on Isle of Wight Festival, 11
on Gillette Cup final, 12
and possible demise of Monty Python, 104
reviews Secrets, 131
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 172, 176
on John Cleese’s separation, 319
reviews Jabberwocky, 375
supports Callaghan, 469
The Daily Telegraph, 340, 419
reviews Monty Python, 13
reviews Secrets, 131
on Labours first budget, 162
reviews Three Men in a Boat, 280
reviews Jabberwocky, 375
MP writes for, 444
reviews The Life of Brian, 597
Dali, Salvador, 454
Dallas, Texas, 220–2, 417
Danny’s Bar, New York, 553
Dark Horse Records, 351
Darsham, Suffolk, 77, 180, 408, 511
Darwin, Charles, 53n, 516
Datchet, Buckinghamshire, 242
Davenport, Nigel, 538
Davidson, Anthea, xiii, 128, 202, 304n, 516
Davidson, Clemency, 128, 516
Davidson, Grace, 516
Davidson, Ian, xiii, 128, 202, 292, 364n, 400, 425, 434, 516–17
Davies, Alison, 225–6 and n, 521
Davies, Hunter, 367, 600, 602
Davis, Chris, 218
Davis, Clive, 232, 306–7, 552
Davis, Tom, 457–8
Davis, William, 39, 40
Dawson, Helen, 224
Day for Night (film), 155
de Jongh, Nicholas, 154
De Lane Lea, 102, 103, 532
De Niro, Robert, 365, 415, 436
de Paul, Lynsey, 198 and n
Dean, Isabel, 339, 347 and n
Dean, John, 142, 442
Blind Ambition, 438 and n
Dear Daddy (play), 347 and n
Decimal Day (1971), 54–5
Deeley, Michael, 436
The Deer-hunter (film), 436
Delaney, Shelagh, 102n
Delfont, Bernard, 56, 444–5, 446, 465, 548n, 575
Dell, Howard, 362n
Denham, Buckinghamshire, 74–5
Denmark, 65, 139
Denselow, Robin, 323–4 and n
Denver, John, 126
Derbyshire, Gillette Cup, 11–12
Desert Island Discs (radio programme), 591–2, 593
Deutsches Museum, Munich, 88
Devillier, Ron, 221 and n, 222, 417–18
Devlin, Bernadette, 68–9 and n
Di Maggio, Joe, 566–7
Diamonds are Forever (film), 71
Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol, 201, 608
Dicso, Joe, 460
The Dirty Dozen (film), 485 and n
Disney world, 551
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, 433
Do Not Adjust Your Set (television programme), ix, 6on, 74, 228, 262
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