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...apologies from your humble and neglectful webmistress. I will try to update you on MP's activities more often. Failing that, here are some of the resources from which I get the (UN)official information:
MP's publisher, Orion Group
posts a schedule of his U.K. book signing and speaking engagements.PLEASE JOIN the message boards on MP's OFFICIAL site: "Blathering On" or "The Series".
U.S. television viewers can check out
for Palin listings! Ignore the "You've Got Mail" listings...
If any non-American Palinites know of a good t.v. reference guide for your country, please email the MPUAP. Thanks!
"...The perfect, well-crafted, impeccably balanced entry persistently eludes me. Prejudices bob to the surface, anger crackles, judgements fall over each other, huffing and puffing. Opinions and interpretations are impulsive, inconsistent and frequently contradictory. But I’m not sure if that matters. After all that’s where a daily diary differs from autobiography or memoir. It is an antidote to hindsight. It seals the present moment and preserves it from perspective..."
Excerpts can be read at The Telegraph.
Can it be true?! From the Sunday Express Online:
14/08/06
A decade after his last appearance on the big screen, Michael Palin is set to make a surprise comeback, we can reveal. Palin, 63, these days better known for his televised travels across the world, has been in talks with former Monty Python colleague Terry Gilliam about a new movie.
Coincidently, given the amiable star's globetrotting career, he will play an explorer. "Mike and I keep talking about a project which is based on a book called Water Music by T Coraghessan Boyle, about Mungo Park, the famous 19th century Scottish explorer who discovered the Niger River," reveals Gilliam, 65.
The director, who has just released his latest film Tideland, adds: "It's not as comic as a comedy, it's funny yet it's also very bleak and strange. It's basically an adventure story, how a guy is reduced to behaving as an animal to survive." It will be Palin's first major film role since appearing in John Cleese's Fierce Creatures back in 1997.
Following his career in Python, he starred in such films as A Private Function and A Fish Called Wanda (memorably with a a pronounced stutter), as well as Alan Bleasdale's gritty television drama GBH. He also surprised fans with a brief cameo in Australian soap Home And Away nine years ago.
However, since the late Eighties, he has preferred to focus on his career as a TV traveller and was reportedly the main obstacle to a planned Monty Python reunion - much to the annoyance of fellow Python Eric Idle, who was behind the idea.
Gilliam, who as well as the legendary Python films has previously directed Palin in the popular flicks Brazil and Jabberwocky, admits that their next project cannot get up and running until his old friend has finished his latest travel series on Eastern Europe.
"I keep telling Mike he's got to stop travelling, sit down and do some films again," he adds.
Michael Palin has revealed that he's planning another travel series - but this time intends to stay closer to home.
'It's hard to top the Himalayas,' he said. 'so we're thinking of something slightly nearer home.
'We're thinking Europe, possibly Eastern Europe. Although it's still in the very early stages of planning.
'You've got to promise not to tell anyone,' he told the audience at a charity show in London's West End last night. 'We'll be filming next year, and it should be out in 2007.
'I was thinking of retiring,' the 62-year-old traveller added. 'But what would I do? Probably just travel.'
On his official website, Mr. Palin is asking that we all give to the disaster relief efforts continuing worldwide. [Your humble webmistress, who lives teetering on the peninsula of Florida, asks as well!]
The Disaster Emergencies Committee (UK)
The American Red Cross (US)
The International Red Cross / Red Crescent
Side-Splitting Satire Starring the "Nice One"!
www.acornmedia.com/rippingyarns
Acorn Media announces the DVD release of Ripping Yarns. Written by Python stalwarts Michael Palin and Terry Jones, the episodes feature unlikely heroes triumphing over adversity (or not) in such varied settings as Victorian London, Depression-era Yorkshire, German POW camps, Peru’s Andes, and the Indian Raj. The DVD 2-volume boxed set has a total running time of 274 minutes
This feature-rich DVD release includes commentaries for all nine episodes by Michael Palin and Terry Jones, a laugh-track-free audio option, a deleted scene, photo gallery, Comic Roots: Michael Palin, a restoration clip, and a commemorative booklet that contains an in-depth production history.
Ripping Yarns and Acorn’s many other titles are available from select retailers, catalog companies, and directly from Acorn at (888) 870-8047 or www.acornonline.com
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BAFTA Award 1989
In September 1988, the webmistress went on a date with a guy to see "A Fish Called Wanda."
She'll be married to that guy 16 years on 4/28/07.
Someone deserves an award for that.
And a special Thanks to PythoNET,
where the webmistress almost won a virtual shrubbery for the following limerick:
I should be offended to bits,
When they say, "...with the biggest tits,"
But how can I nag,
When I just want to shag,
The one who runs out and says, "IT'S!"
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