Diaries 1969–1979 The Python Years

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by Palin, Michael


  and demise of Monty Python, 227

  apologises to John Cleese, 234, 236

  reviews Jabberwocky, 376

  Sunday Mirror, 371

  The Sunday Telegraph, 281, 376

  The Sunday Times, 8, 37, 76, 601

  Atticus article on Monty Python, 100

  reviews fourth series of Monty Python, 196

  reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 227

  reviews Three Men in a Boat, 281

  and Monty Python’s court case against ABC, 319

  Christopher Matthews’ column, 365

  article on John Cleese, 367, 368

  reviews Jabberwocky, 376

  Sunset Across the Bay (television film), 334

  Superman (film), 353, 376–7, 405–6, 466, 515, 516, 568

  Susie (Australian model), 335

  Swan Hotel, Southwold, 206–7

  Swan Hotel, Streatley, 242–3, 244

  Sweden, buys Monty Python, 65

  Swiss Cottage Baths, 564

  Switzerland, 409, 580

  Sykes, Eric, 40, 101, 425

  Syon Park, 130

  T

  Tackerberry, Anthony, 202

  Take it from Here (radio programme), 18n

  Talent (play), 534

  Tarrant, Chris, 534

  Tate, Clark, 514

  Tate Gallery, London, 13, 298, 554

  Tay, Loch, 169, 171

  Taylor, Derek, 203 and n, 394 and n, 476, 512, 558, 601

  Taylor, Gwen, 388, 423, 438, 472, 475, 488, 496, 542

  Taylor, James, 553

  Taylor, Joan, 394, 512, 601

  Taylor, Weston, 176

  Ted (lighting rigger), 606

  Tehran, 278, 279

  Television Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, 403

  Telfer, Alison, xiii, 8, 50, 89, 90, 326

  Teresa, Mother, 595

  Terry, Sir John, 391, 393

  ‘The Testing of Eric Olthwaite’ see Ripping Yarns

  Tetworth Hall Estate, Cambridgeshire, 385

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, 591

  Thames, River, 4, 57, 134, 401, 479

  filming Ttiree Men in a Boat, 234, 241–2, 244, 246

  Thames Television, 215, 269

  That Was The Week That Was (television series), 444

  Thatcher, Margaret, 469, 513, 559, 573

  Theakston’s beer, 542

  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 150, 152–3, 154, 157, 158, 159–60, 163

  Their Finest Hours (plays), 315 and n, 318, 319

  Theroux, Paul, The Great Railway Bazaar, 290

  Therson, Jorgen, Sex Life of Christ, 577

  Thief of Baghdad (film), 447

  32 Flavours, Hampstead, 373

  Thomas, Dylan, 294

  Thomas, James (Jimmy), 13, 131, 132

  Thomas, Leslie, 146

  Thomas, Ralph, 23 and n

  Thompson, Hunter, 529

  Thorpe, Jeremy, 295, 520, 563 and n

  Thorp’s bookshop, Guildford, 63

  The Three Hostages (television film), 425

  Three Men in a Boat (television film), 253, 262

  MP offered part in, 208, 213, 233–5, 236

  read-through, 240

  filming, 241–2, 244–6

  editing, 255–6

  screening, 279

  reviews, 280, 281

  MP watches repeat, 401

  three-day week (1974), 150, 151, 154, 156

  Thumb Gallery, London, 442

  Thurmond, Strom, 589

  Tibet, Yeti expedition, 390

  Tidy, Bill, 54, 143

  Till Death Do Us Part (television series), 12, 95, 327

  Time Bandits (children’s film), 589–90, 593 and n, 594, 597, 605, 606

  Time-Life, 153, 271, 277, 283, 347, 355, 417, 418, 465

  Time Out, 226, 365, 375, 584

  The Times, 49, 315, 340, 441

  reviews Secrets, 131, 132

  and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 176

  reviews Three Men in a Boat, 280

  reviews Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 282

  reviews Jabberwocky, 375, 376

  criticism of Tlte Life of Brian in, 599

  Tinkley, Allen, 284, 305, 413

  Tinkley, Diana, 413

  Tiswas (television programme), 534

  Titanic (film), 548

  Titicaca, Lake, 344

  Tobago, 360, 437

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, 567

  Today (radio programme), 592–3

  Tognazzi, Ugo, 151n

  Tokyo, 401

  Tomiczek, John, xiii, 100, 127 and n, 185, 390, 571

  Tomkinson’s Schooldays (television programme), 284, 408, 418, 468, 481, 587, 589

  script, 253

  casting, 256, 259

  rushes, 260–1

  studio recording, 262–3

  screening, 270, 282

  success of, 282–3, 288

  Milton Abbas School disapprove of, 435

  Spike Milhgan’s potted précis, 498

  Tomlin, Lily, 453

  Tomlinson, Fred, 85 and n, 257–8

  Tomorrow (US television show), 577

  The Tonight Show (American television), 126

  Took, Barry, xiv, 11 and n, 14n, 141n, 257, 546

  Top Haf (film), 519

  Top of the Pops (television programme), 240, 257n, 301

  Tories see Conservative Party

  Toronto, 212, 239, 269, 567

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 119–21

  Torquay, 24–7

  Toscanini, Arturo, 454

  Tow Law, County Durham, 384–5

  Tower Bridge, London, 134

  Trafalgar Square, London, 388

  Trattoria San Angelo, Albemarle Street, 585

  Trattoria Terrazza, London, 525

  Travers, Ben, 268

  Rookery Nook, 539

  Travesties (Stoppard), 235, 246, 255

  Travolta, John, 456

  Treasure Island (play), 150

  Tree, Sir Ronald, 429, 433

  Trinity College, Cambridge, 19

  Trudeau, Margaret, 401 and n

  Truffaut, François, 155, 333

  Truman, Harry S, 449

  Trust House Forte, 581

  TUC (Trades Union Congress) 152

  Tufano, Brian, 242, 246, 334

  Tull, Mr (housekeeper in Barbados), 433 and n, 435

  Tunis, 196

  Tunisia, filming The Life of Brian in, 393–4, 402, 445, 484–509, 510, 519

  Turf Club, London, 535

  Turner, Teddy, 541

  Turtle Bay Gardens, New York, 302, 312

  Tutin, Dorothy, 415

  TV International, 91

  TV Times, 151

  TW3 (television series), 53

  TWA, 215, 219, 271, 272, 275

  Twelfth Night (play), 434

  Twentieth Century Fox, 543

  Twice a Fortnight ((television series), 26

  Two Rivers Hotel, Chepstow, 341

  The Two Ronnies (television series), ix, 59, 97, 202, 228, 260

  Tyler, Andrew, 176

  Tyler, T, 155

  U

  UEFA Cup, 314

  Underwood’s Finest Hour (play), 315–16 and n, 319

  Union Cellars, Oxford, 81

  United Airlines, 124

  United Nations, 199, 312, 393

  United States of America

  Apollo missions, 3, 4–5, 20–2, 427

  Monty Python film proposed, 13, 14, 22

  Monty Python screened in, 22–3, 112, 187, 194, 206, 211, 251, 417–18, 458

  Marty Feldman series, 60

  MP’s first trip to, 76–7 and n

  Monty Python LP released in, 82

  1972 presidential election, 96

  Watergate affair, 120, 127, 142, 186, 187, 216, 336n, 438n

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 121–2, 123, 124–8

  reluctance to take Monty Python series, 153

  possibilities for Monty Python in, 157–8
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  Pythons publicity tour, 215–24

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail in, 228–32, 239

  Bert Fegg publicity tour, 249–53

  Monty Python show in New York, 266–7, 280, 284, 301–14

  Monty Python court case against ABC, 267 and n, 269–79, 289, 319, 323, 324–5, 355

  Jabberwocky opens in, 377, 378–9, 387

  PBS interested in Ripping Yarns, 418, 425

  and financing of The Life of Brian, 420

  MP guest host on Saturday Night Live, 436, 446, 447, 453–62

  The Life of Brian distribution problems, 517, 533, 543–4

  MP’s second appearance on Saturday Night Live, 525, 528–31

  viewings of The Life of Brian, 534

  Los Angeles Python stage show, 544

  Ripping Yarns shown in, 547

  MP’s third stint on Saturday Night Live, 550, 551–3

  The Life of Brian marketing trip, 554–8

  Royal 10th Anniversary of Python celebration, 558

  Palin family holiday on Long Island, 565–70

  The Life of Brian opens in, 571, 572, 573

  Jewish reaction to The Life of Brian, 574

  The Life of Brian’s success in, 574, 575, 576, 580, 582, 583, 588–9

  The Life of Brian publicity, 576–7

  Claudie Levinson’s visa problems, 600

  Universal Pictures, 543

  University College Hospital, London, 46, 205

  University of East Anglia, 61

  Unvarnished Truth (play), 521

  Updike, John, 351n

  Upstairs Downstairs (television series), 206, 217

  V

  Vancouver, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 124

  Vandenburg Motel, Santa Maria, 125

  Variety

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail advertisement, 232

  and The Life of Brian, 420, 487, 514–15, 517, 573, 574, 582, 583

  and Jabberwocky, 533

  MP writes for, 550, 551

  Vavasseur, 411

  Veeraswamy’s restaurant, London, 589

  Veling, Ranji, xiii, 66, 366

  Veling, Rolf, xiii, 66

  Venice, 582n

  Verdelais, 34

  Vereen, Ron, 303

  Vernon, Richard, 475, 476

  Victoria, Queen, 546

  Monty Python sketch, 1, 10, 75

  Vidal, Gore, 56

  Video Arts, 463, 523n

  Vietnam war, 35–6, 69, 92, 229, 304

  Villa Bianca, Hampstead, 211

  Villiers, Jimmy, 292

  Virgin Records, 213

  Visconti, Luchino, 87

  Vogue (magazine), nude photograph of

  Pythons, 229, 232, 247

  The Vole (magazine), 394 and n, 404

  Von Furstenberg, Diana, 455 and n

  W

  Wainwright, Loudon III, 232

  Wakefield prison, IRA hunger strikes, 289

  Waldorf Hotel, London, 234–5, 600

  Wale, Michael, 148 and n, 225

  Wales, 199, 445

  filming Jabberwocky in, 338–42

  Walker, Alexander, 226, 425

  Wall, Max, 323, 325–6, 329, 332–3, 335, 338, 340, 343, 371, 376

  Wally ‘s, New York, 456, 457

  Walmsley, Jane, 201 and n, 320

  Walmsley, Nigel, 201 and n

  Walters, John, 266

  Walton-on-Thames, 34–5, 43, 241

  Walton’s restaurant, London, 583

  Wangford, Suffolk, 70

  Waresley, Cambridgeshire, 385

  Warhol, Andy, 232, 454, 455

  Warner Books, 308–9

  Warner Brothers, 452, 544

  Charlie Bubbles, 101

  backing for The Life of Brian, 420, 523–4, 554, 556–7

  The Life of Brian publicity, 566, 573

  The Life of Brian soundtrack album, 570

  The Life of Brian opens in US, 572

  success of The Life of Brian, 576, 580, 582, 588

  and Pythons’ fourth film, 579, 583, 584

  Warner Records, 394, 512, 558

  Warner Rendezvous, 44

  Warrick, Teddy, 390 and n, 391

  Washington, US publicity tour, 220

  Watergate affair, 120, 127, 142, 186, 187, 216, 336n, 438n

  Watergate Complex, Washington, 220

  Waterhouse, Keith, 239

  Waterman, Ivan, 586

  Watford, Gwen, 256, 259, 262

  Watkins, Alan, 39

  Watson, Caroline, 97, 409

  Watson, Lyall, Supernature, 194

  Watts, Charlie, 351

  Waugh, Evelyn, 116, 131, 235, 555

  Decline and Fall, 604

  Vile Bodies, 493

  Weapons of Happiness (play), 331

  Wear, River, 383

  A Wedding (film), 536

  The Weekend (MP’s play), 553, 558, 581, 582, 583, 584, 594, 597, 601

  Weekend TV awards, 21

  Weekend World (television programme), 297

  Weem, 171

  Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 424, 602

  Weiland, John, 178

  Welles, Orson, 440, 537

  Wellington Hospital, London, 393

  Wells, John, 40

  Wembley Stadium, London, 390–1

  Wences, Senor (ventriloquist), 452

  Wenham, Brian, 559

  Wenhaston, Suffolk, 181

  Wesker, Arnold, 395 and n

  Wesker, Dusty, 547 and n

  West, Timothy, 467

  West Granby, Connecticut, 250–1

  West Indies

  Palin family holiday in Tobago, 360

  The Life of Brian rewrites in Barbados, 398, 402, 420–1, 428–35

  West Kentish Town, 93

  Westinghouse TV Studios, Philadelphia, 302

  Westminster Abbey, London, 148–9

  Westminster Bridge, filming fourth series of

  Monty Python, 189

  Westminster Hall, IRA bomb, 181

  Weston, Bill, 340

  Weston, Maggie, xiii, 114 and n, 190, 253, 329, 337–8, 340, 350

  Weybourne, Norfolk, 7

  Whack-O! (television series), 262 and n

  Wheldon, Huw, 35

  Where’s Poppa? (film), 68, 309

  Wherry Inn, Geldeston, 233

  Whetstone High Street, London, 43

  Whinfrey, Mr (business manager of Punch), 442

 

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