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Chapters: Douglas Adams, Harry Enfield, Marty Feldman, Stephen Fry, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Graham Chapman, Ben Elton, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Michael Palin, Eric Sykes, Eric Idle, Victoria Wood, Mel Smith, Alan Bennett, Barry Cryer, Richard Curtis, Jonathan Ross, Ricky Gervais, John Junkin, John Lloyd, Dennis Potter, Jonathan Lynn, John Mortimer, Jessica Hynes, Peter Kay, Terrance Dicks, Anthony Minghella, Peter Jukes, Robert Holmes, James Corden, Berlie Doherty, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Merchant, Geoffrey Perkins, Dennis Spooner, Norman Giller, Miles Tredinnick, John Thomson, Matt Lucas, Rod Hull, Paul Abbott, Noel Clarke, Henry Lincoln, David Croft, Matt Berry, Steven Wells, Russell Howard, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar, David Quantick, Richard Ayoade, Stephen Poliakoff, Rob Shearman, Andrew Collins, Richard Harris, Ernie Wise, Mark Ravenhill, Giles Cooper, Jimmy O'connor, Troy Kennedy Martin, Mark Williams, Shaun Sutton, Charlie Higson, Alan Bleasdale, Denis Norden, Andy Hamilton, Patrick Marber, Rob Buckman, Clive Exton, Dick Sharples, Tony Holland, Johnny Speight, Henry Livings, Alan Plater, David Nicholls, Fred Lawless, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Bruno Heller, Andy Parsons, Mike Walling, Paul Garner, David Renwick, Tony Williamson, Wilfred Greatorex, Julia Smith, Jimmy Perry, Tom Binns, Andrew Marshall, David Whitaker, Jimmy Mulville, Andy Riley, Alan Caillou, Norman Hudis, Doug Naylor, Dan Clark, Laurie Rowley, Laurence Marks, Derek Marlowe, Toby Whithouse, Charlotte Bingham, Carla Lane, Henry Naylor, Jimmy Hibbert, Susy Kane, Danny Brocklehurst, Simon Nye, Debbie Horsfield, Dennis Potter Bibliography, Heidi Thomas, Charles Bennett, Katy Brand, John Sullivan, Matthew Wingett, Peter Flannery, Simon Jowett, Jack Rosenthal, Ben Aaronovitch, Jimmy Mcgovern, Alice Lowe, Kay Mellor, Ted Willis, Baron Willis, Colin Brake, Phyllis Nagy, J. C. Wilsher, Jeremy Lloyd, Chris Bryant, Rob Rackstraw, Julian Mitchell, Talbot Rothwell, Br...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8091 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Russell Crowe, Michael Caine, Robert Redford, Al Pacino, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Spacey, Spencer Tracy, Roberto Benigni, Burt Lancaster, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Bill Murray, Nigel Hawthorne, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Finch, Hugh Grant, John Hurt, Ben Kingsley, Bob Hoskins, Daniel Day-Lewis, William Hurt, Robert Downey, Jr., Geoffrey Rush, Mickey Rourke, Jack Nicholson, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Bafta Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Rylance, Haing S. Ngor, Robert Carlyle, Philippe Noiret, Jamie Bell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 412. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hugh John Grant (born 10 September 1960) is a British actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. In recent years, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), and American Dreamz (2006). He has been criticised by students of cinema for putting emphasis on nuanced mannerisms, for the predictability of his movies, and for his unwillingness to stretch as an actor. Within the film industry, he is cited as a anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=170779 ... Read more

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Chapters: John Stuart Mill, Rudyard Kipling, Guglielmo Marconi, John Cleese, Andrew Carnegie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Fridtjof Nansen, C. P. Snow, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Arthur Balfour, J. M. Barrie, Jan Smuts, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, James Anthony Froude, David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, Clement Freud, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, Andrew Neil, Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby, Nicky Campbell, Nicholas Parsons, David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Donald Findlay, Learie Constantine, Alan Coren, Frank Muir, Donald Mackay, 11th Lord Reay, Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, Wilfred Grenfell, Charles Neaves, Katharine Whitehorn, John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, David Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford, Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 9th Baronet, James Stuart, Kevin Dunion, John Rothenstein, Theodore Martin, Rector of the University of St Andrews, Stanley Adams, Robert Macgregor Mitchell, Simon Pepper. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 356. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26308 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Terry Jones. Excerpt:Eric Idle Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian , actor , author , singer , writer and comedic composer . He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python . Early life Idle was born in South Shields , County Durham (now Tyne and Wear ) in Harton Village, the son of Nora Barron (née Sanderson), a health visitor , and Ernest Idle. His father had served in the Royal Air Force and survived World War II , only to be killed in a hitch-hiking accident on Christmas Eve 1945. His mother had difficulty coping with a full-time job and raising a child, so when he was seven, she enrolled him into the Royal Wolverhampton School as a boarder . The school had begun life as a Victorian orphanage , and during Idle's time was a charitable foundation dedicated to the welfare of children who had lost one or both parents. Its pupils, who were mainly the children of dead English soldiers, still referred to it as the 'Ophney'. Idle is quoted as saying: "It was a physically abusive , bullying , harsh environment for a kid to grow up in. I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority. Perfect training for Python." Idle stated that the two things that made his life bearable were listening to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes and watching the local football team, Wolverhampton Wanderers . Despite this, he disliked other sports and would sneak out of school every Thursday afternoon to the local cinema. He was eventually caught watching the X-rated film BUtterfield 8 and stripped of his prefecture , even though by that time he was head boy . Idle had alrea... ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Christopher Nolan, Alan Moore, Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Brook, Ringo Starr, Donald Crisp, John Cleese, Guy Ritchie, Clive Barker, Noël Coward, Lewin Fitzhamon, Wilfred Noy, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sally Potter, Tracey Ullman, Mike Figgis, Adrian Brunel, James Booth, Mackenzie Crook, Graham Chapman, John Osborne, Robert Bolt, Joe Orton, Mario Zampi, Michael E. Briant, Bob Monkhouse, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Simon Brook, Dick Clement, David Wood, Duncan Jones, Matthew Vaughn, Henry Jaglom, Clive Anderson, Michael Booth, R.c. Sherriff, Nick Drake, Adrian Edmondson, John Carlin. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Alan Moore (né le 18 novembre 1953 à Northampton) est un écrivain anglais surtout connu pour son travail de scénariste de bande dessinée (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, etc.). Moore est célèbre pour être de ceux qui ont rendu les comics plus matures, plus littéraires. Il a également beaucoup apporté à la forme du médium, par des effets de mise en page inédits jusque lors. Ses influences sont très diverses. On trouve des auteurs comme William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Mayer et Iain Sinclair, des écrivains de science-fiction comme Michael Moorcock et d'horreur comme Clive Barker, des cinéastes comme Nicolas Roeg. En bande dessinée, l'influence de Bryan Talbot, précurseur de la bande dessinée « adulte » avec The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, a été déterminante. Il nait à Northampton dans une famille modeste. Après une scolarité difficile (il est exclu de son lycée pour avoir vendu du LSD), il monte le magazine Embryo avec des amis à l'âge de 18 ans. Il se marie en 1974 et a deux enfants. Illustrateur dans un magazine musical, Sounds, en 1979, il abandonne rapidement le dessin pour s'adon...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Douglas Adams, Marty Feldman, Stephen Fry, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Bill Oddie, Tony Hancock, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Ronnie Barker, Michael Palin, Eric Sykes, Eric Idle, Mel Smith, Clive Anderson, Ian Hislop, Barry Cryer, Mark Thomas, Ricky Gervais, Harry Hill, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Vic Reeves, Rowan Atkinson, Malcolm Hardee, Mark Billingham, Danny Baker, Charlie Brooker, David Walliams, Mark Gatiss, Stephen Merchant, Geoffrey Perkins, Adrian Edmondson, Norman Giller, Matt Lucas, Ricky Tomlinson, Ernie Wise, Laura Solon, Hugh Dennis, Charlie Higson, Kevin Bishop, Craig Brown, Eddie Braben, Ali Cook, Karl Lucas, Jimmy Mulville, Doug Naylor, Russell Kane, Laurie Rowley, Laurence Marks, David Armand, Patrick Barlow, Julia Davis, Alice Lowe, David Nobbs, Jo Enright, Nev Fountain, Karl Theobald, Felix Dexter, Tom Basden, Martin Wolfenden, Shaun Pye, Charlotte Reather, Eric Chappell, Stefan Golaszewski, Alexander Kirk, Debbie Barham, Daniel Maier, Dave Freeman, Brenda Gilhooly, Tony Sarchet, Sam Spedding, Nick Tanner, Rupert Russell. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 465. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories fo...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8091 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Barry Took, Ann Widdecombe, Willie Rushton, David Attenborough, Des O'connor, Carol Thatcher, David Frost, Lily Allen, Kim Wilde, Cilla Black, Michael Portillo, Anton Du Beke, Kerry Katona, Jimmy Carr, Mark Kermode, Charlie Brooker, Jodie Marsh, Brian Sewell, Duncan James, Diana Dors, Victor Silvester, John Oliver, Peter Jones, Lance Sieveking, Derek Acorah, Ned Sherrin, Justin Fletcher, Bruce Parry, Frank Muir, John Julius Norwich, James Wentworth Day, Calum Best, Denis Norden, Andy Hamilton, Tarka L'herpiniere, Timothy Campbell, Joey Deacon, Cannon and Ball, Len Goodman, Errol Barnett, Jacky Newcomb, Levi Roots, Maxwell Knight, Robert Elms, Gilbert Harding, Simon Ambrose, Arthur Treacher, Robert Henriques, Susie Dent, Linda Lusardi, Dominic Byrne, Christine Hamilton, Bobby Ball, Oreke Mosheshe, Pam Royle, Robert Smith, Mick Miller, Jo Frost, Elizabeth Allan, Bernard Trevor Matthews, Joseph Cooper, Tommy Cannon, Richard Vranch, Ted Moult, Jimmy Tarbuck, Colin Fry, Paul Torrisi, Sally Morgan, Andrew Dan-Jumbo, Ian Payne, Katie Richmond, Pearl Binder, Jayne Sharp, Kathryn Flett, Tony Stockwell, Juliette Hohnen, Andy Edge, Jeffrey Segal, Francis Fulford, Logan Murray, Moira Quirk, Nichola Dixon, Ian Hyland. Excerpt: Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English recording artist, talk show host, and actress. She is the daughter of actor and musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. In her teenage years, her musical tastes evolved from glam rock to alternative. She ran away from home to attend the Glastonbury Festival at the age of fourteen. A year later, Allen abandoned school and concentrated on improving her performing and compositional skills. Afterwards, she created several demo songs, and n... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5007334 ... Read more

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Chapters: English Television Chefs, John Cleese, Ronnie Barker, Barry Took, Ann Widdecombe, Willie Rushton, Nigella Lawson, David Attenborough, Des O'connor, Carol Thatcher, David Frost, Lily Allen, Kim Wilde, Jamie Oliver, Cilla Black, Michael Portillo, Anton Du Beke, Kerry Katona, Jimmy Carr, Fanny Cradock, Keith Floyd, Mark Kermode, Charlie Brooker, Jodie Marsh, Robert Irvine, Heston Blumenthal, Jane Asher, Delia Smith, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Brian Sewell, Duncan James, Diana Dors, Pat Chapman, Victor Silvester, Rick Stein, John Oliver, Peter Jones, Lance Sieveking, Derek Acorah, Ned Sherrin, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Justin Fletcher, Merrilees Parker, Antony Worrall Thompson, Bruce Parry, Gary Rhodes, Frank Muir, John Julius Norwich, Ainsley Harriott, James Wentworth Day, Calum Best, Jason Atherton, Denis Norden, Andy Hamilton, Tarka L'herpiniere, Timothy Campbell, Joey Deacon, Cannon and Ball, Len Goodman, Errol Barnett, Jacky Newcomb, Levi Roots, Maxwell Knight, James Martin, Robert Elms, Gilbert Harding, Simon Ambrose, Arthur Treacher, Robert Henriques, Anjum Anand, the Hairy Bikers, Susie Dent, Linda Lusardi, Dominic Byrne, Christine Hamilton, Manju Malhi, Bobby Ball, Oreke Mosheshe, Pam Royle, Mark Sargeant, Johnnie Cradock, Robert Smith, Mick Miller, Jo Frost, Elizabeth Allan, Kevin Woodford, Bernard Trevor Matthews, Danny Boome, Paul a Young, Thomasina Miers, Brian Turner, Joseph Cooper, Tommy Cannon, Richard Vranch, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Galton Blackiston, Jennifer Paterson, Ted Moult, Philip Harben, Jimmy Tarbuck, Rosemary Shrager, Colin Fry, Paul Torrisi, Sally Morgan, Andrew Dan-Jumbo, Lesley Waters, Ian Payne, Valentine Warner, Katie Richmond, Phil Vickery, Pearl Binder, Jayne Sharp, the Cooking Canon, Kathryn Flett, Tony Tobin, Tony Stockwell, Juliette Hohnen, Peter Pendlebury, Andy Edge, Jeffrey Segal, Ian Parmenter, Francis Fulford, Logan Murray, Jeremy Lee, Moira Quirk, Nichola Dixon, Ian Hyland. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 632. Not illustr... ... Read more

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Chapters: Douglas Adams, Marty Feldman, Stephen Fry, John Cleese, Tom Stoppard, Bill Oddie, Chris Morris, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Took, Eric Sykes, Simon Brett, Andrew Mcgibbon, Richard Herring, Peter Jukes, David Walliams, Mark Gatiss, Steven Wells, David Quantick, Rob Shearman, Jimmy Edwards, Giles Cooper, Brian Sibley, Lynne Truss, Reece Shearsmith, Andy Hamilton, Maxwell Knight, Jonathan Clements, R. D. Wingfield, Laurie Rowley, Mark Tonderai, Graeme Fife, Norman Painting, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Susannah Doyle, Derek Roy, Ernest Dudley, Emma Kennedy, Yvonne Antrobus, Jo Kendall, Wally K. Daly, Nev Fountain, Barry Pilton, Graham Duff, Chris Paling, Ruth Adam, Leslie Halward. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 274. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. He also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Known to some of his fans as "Bop Ad" for his illegible signature, Adams became known as an advocate for animals and the environment, and a lover of fast cars, cameras, and the Apple Mac. He was a staunch atheist, fa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=8091 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Cleese, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Thomas L. Cleave, Trevor Howard, Michael Redgrave, Frank Yates, Naunton Wayne, Joyce Cary, Clifton College, Oswald Watt, John Houseman, J. M. E. Mctaggart, A. E. J. Collins, Leslie Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron Hore-Belisha, Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood, Roger Hollis, Francis Wrigley Hirst, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, William H.k. Pollock, Francis Younghusband, Harry Plunket Greene, Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton, List of Old Cliftonians, John Biggs-Davison, Boris Schapiro, John Daniell, I. A. Richards, Launcelot Percival, Simon Russell Beale, Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, Montague Summers, John Kendrew, Percy Hobart, Cecil Rawling, Conrad Hal Waddington, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Paul Grice, Michael Green, Roy Fedden, James Allen, Alfred Evans (Cricketer, Born 1858), Edwin Samuel Montagu, David Willcocks, James Kirtley, Eric Macfadyen, Horace Robert Martineau, Thorold Dickinson, Edwin Field, Timothy Creasey, Brian Pippard, Sydney Evershed, Martina Topley-Bird, Arnold Wilson, Martin Lings, Hugh Elles, Charles Hooper, Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, John Henry Whitley, W. O. Bentley, Henry Newbolt, Norman O. Brown, G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, Robert Hermon-Hodge, 1st Baron Wyfold, Charlie Townsend, William Leake, Alan Napier, E. A. Smythies, Frank Hill, Nevill Francis Mott, Frederick Belson, Peter Geach, Hector Sants, Roger Fry, Andy Hornby, Geoffrey Household, Harold Morris, Edward Prioleau Warren, Robert Edwin Bush, James Bush, Sir Max Muspratt, 1st Baronet, John Inverdale, Roger Michell, R. P. Keigwin, Jerry Cornes, John Pinkerton, Steve Scott, George Lockwood Morris, Edward Tylecote, Peter Lanyon, Colin Sleeman, Sir John Keane, 5th Baronet, Clive Swift, Edgar Bonham-Carter, Simon Blackburn, L. P. Hartley, Henry Ton... ... Read more

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Edited by Harvey Kurtzman. Includes a fumetti starring John Cleese of Monty Python fame; a Fritz the Cat two page story by Robert Crumb; "WONDER WART-HOG, ENCOUNTERS SUPER GRANNY" by Gilbert Shelton; "HARVEY KURTZMAN'S FUN AND GAMES"; and a photo of Associate Editor Terry Gilliam on the editorial page ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : John Cleese, Guy Ritchie, Clive Barker, Tim Roth, Richard Attenborough, Nick Broomfield, Harry Bruce Woolfe, Paul Czinner, Dianne Jackson, Shane Meadows, Dick Clement, Duncan Jones, Eugene Lauste, Matthew Vaughn, David Slade, Stephen Daldry, Harold S. Bucquet, Henry Jaglom, Peter Howitt, Paul Rotha, Roger Christian, Paul Weiland, Adrian Edmondson, Jez Butterworth. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John Marwood Cleese CBE, né le 27 octobre 1939 à Weston-super-Mare en Angleterre, est un acteur britannique. Il est devenu mondialement connu lors de ses prestations avec les Monty Python. Il fait des études au Clifton College à Bristol et est admis en droit au Downing College de l'Université de Cambridge. Avec son habileté naturelle à faire rire, il est invité à se joindre à la troupe de théâtre Footlight dès la première année. C'est là qu'il rencontre son futur partenaire d'écriture Graham Chapman. Grâce à son talent d'auteur comique, il est engagé par la BBC, où il travaille notamment pour l'émission de radio The Dick Emery Show. Bientôt, il quitte ses fonctions pour rejoindre le Cambridge Circus en tournée en Nouvelle-Zélande et aux États-Unis, à Broadway. Cleese décide de rester aux États-Unis pendant quelque temps, et collabore à un magazine appelé Help!, dont le rédacteur-en-chef adjoint est Terry Gilliam, futur comparse des Monty Python. Cleese rédige ensuite, sans véritable succès, des articles de politique internationale pour Newsweek. Après quoi, il rejoint l'American Establishment Review, mais finit par rentrer à Londres en 1965. Avec Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones et Michael Palin, il écrit pour deux émissions de télévision, The Frost Report et At Last The 1948 Show. Il épouse l'act...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Kapitel: Terry Gilliam, Das Leben Des Brian, John Cleese, Der Sinn Des Lebens, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Golden Age of Ballooning, Monty Pythons Wunderbare Welt Der Schwerkraft, Die Ritter Der Kokosnuß, Michael Palin, Eric Idle, Die Spanische Inquisition, Fußballspiel Der Philosophen, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Terry Jones, Holzfäller-Lied, Graham Chapman, Dotterbart, Der Papagei Ist Tot, Das Ministerium Für Alberne Gänge, Monty Python's Spamalot, Der Tödlichste Witz Der Welt, Kommunisten-Quiz-Sketch, Neil Innes, Spam-Sketch, Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Four-Yorkshiremen-Sketch, Doune Castle, Monty Python Live at Drury Lane, How to Irritate People, Monty Pythons Fliegender Zirkus, Carol Cleveland, Castle Stalker, Connie Booth, Hms Defiant. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed from the television series into something larger in scope and impact, spawning touring stage shows, films, numerous albums, several books and a stage musical as well as launching the members to individual stardom. The group's influence on comedy has been compared to The Beatles' influence on music. The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Loosely structured as a sketch show but with an innovative stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Gilliam's animation), it pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in style and content. A self-contained comedy team responsible for both writing and performing their work, they changed the way performers entertained audiences. The Pythons' creative contr...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more

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A double audio cassette released to tie in with reissues of the "Fawlty Towers" TV comedy series. Cleese celebrates the highlights of his long BBC career with extracts from all his best-known shows. ... Read more

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Shedding no light on the days when Cleese was funnier
This album attempts a retrospective of Cleese's BBC career as comic and writer, but I found it rather irksome and spotty. The CD does deliver some ofCleese's classic highlights. There is "The Dead Parrot Sketch," "The Cheese Shop," the "Don't Mention the War" bit from Fawlty Towers, the Four Yorkshiremen poverty one-upsmanship sketch and many more. The Three-inch String sketch manges to be silly and a rare satirical look at the advertising industry. Cleese wraps the skits inside a mock interview in which he plays Wing Commander Murial Volestrangler. Kudos for at least attempting something new, but this was a huge miss -- no pun intended, given Cleese's height. It only showed how much Cleese's comic talent lies in the past. A full stomach and head full of praise seem to have dull the comic wit.

I would have preferred a more serious approach to the Cleese's carrer -- talkabout "something completely different!" Getting to know Cleese -- avoiding both the maudlin and the pompous -- would have been a great adjunct to the Python material I already know and love. A portion of a show with Robin Skynner, his therapist/collaborator on Families and how to survive them was a good yet insufficient move in this direction. Those unfamiliar with Cleese could use a few clues about which pieces originated on "The Frost Show" or "Monty Python" or elsewhere.

These two disks neither function as a primer for those who are unfamiliar with Cleese (too many great bits are missing) nor does it provide useful and fascinating tidbits for fans. I'd give it a miss.

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Quentin Blake, John Cleese, Michael Apted, Thomas Gaskell Tutin, Mike Atherton, Thandie Newton, William Philip Schreiner, Arthur Roy Clapham, Sydney John Hickson, Michael Winner, Edwin Ray Lankester, Jan Hruška, Andy Hamilton, Nick Griffin, Trevor Nunn, Henry Bulwer-Lytton. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : John Marwood Cleese CBE, né le 27 octobre 1939 à Weston-super-Mare en Angleterre, est un acteur britannique. Il est devenu mondialement connu lors de ses prestations avec les Monty Python. Il fait des études au Clifton College à Bristol et est admis en droit au Downing College de l'Université de Cambridge. Avec son habileté naturelle à faire rire, il est invité à se joindre à la troupe de théâtre Footlight dès la première année. C'est là qu'il rencontre son futur partenaire d'écriture Graham Chapman. Grâce à son talent d'auteur comique, il est engagé par la BBC, où il travaille notamment pour l'émission de radio The Dick Emery Show. Bientôt, il quitte ses fonctions pour rejoindre le Cambridge Circus en tournée en Nouvelle-Zélande et aux États-Unis, à Broadway. Cleese décide de rester aux États-Unis pendant quelque temps, et collabore à un magazine appelé Help!, dont le rédacteur-en-chef adjoint est Terry Gilliam, futur comparse des Monty Python. Cleese rédige ensuite, sans véritable succès, des articles de politique internationale pour Newsweek. Après quoi, il rejoint l'American Establishment Review, mais finit par rentrer à Londres en 1965. Avec Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones et Michael Palin, il écrit pour deux émissions de télévision, The Frost Report et At Last The 1948 Show. Il épouse l'actrice américaine Connie Booth en 1968. Puis, lorsque Terry Gilliam arrive des États-Unis comm...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: John Cleese, Jeffrey Archer, John Polkinghorne, Ritchie Blackmore, A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, Jill Dando, Gareth Taylor, Bill Andrews, Hans Price, Peter Trego, Phil Slocombe, Rupert Graves, Lance Dossor, Brian Cotter, Baron Cotter, Walter Bunch, My Silent Wake, Racey, Sophie Long, Seymour Clark, Daphne Fowler, David Evans (Somerset Cricketer, Born 1928), Sean Martin, Danny Farrant, Con O'neill, Jon Bass, Paul Collard, Cathal Ó Sándair, Henry Edwards, John Oldmixon, Frederick Pratten, Steve Banks, John Hook, Constance Chapman, Nick Evans. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 173. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John Marwood Cleese (pronounced ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life. In the mid 1970s, Cleese co-wrote and starred in, with first wife Connie Booth, the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. Later, he co-starred with Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtis and former Python colleague Michael Palin in A Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. He also starred in Clockwise, and has appeared in many other films, including two James Bond films as Q, two Harry Potter films, and three Shrek films. With Yes Minister writer Antony Jay he co-founded the production company Video Arts, responsible for making entertaining training films. Cleese was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, the only child of Muriel (née Cross), an acrobat, and Reginald Francis Cleese (b. 1894), who wor...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=15858 ... Read more