Tag: Eric Idle
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JONATHAN MILLER: LOST MEMORIES
He was forever popping up here, there and, yes, everywhere, during those long decades from the 1960s on, ever keen to run away with unstoppable fluency, eloquence and erudition on […]
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Timothée Chalamet (so good in Call Me by Your Name) is miscast as King Henry V
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs and Netflix The King (Netflix). Laurence Olivier’s Henry V film was World War 2 propaganda, a morale booster, released at the same time as […]
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Two major collector’s editions of cult British television comedy sketch shows, precursors of Monty Python
Robert Tanitch reviews the latest DVDs At Last The 1948 Show (BFI) Tom Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Marty Feldman and the lovely Aimi MacDonald are still verbally and physically […]
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Do Not Adjust Your Set
Who remembers this landmark programme that was on our television screens from 1967 to 1969 and was the most innovative comedy show of its time? The cast included Eric Idle, […]