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Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python. 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. ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Eric Idle Songs, Films Directed by Eric Idle, Novels by Eric Idle, the Road to Mars, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, All You Need Is Cash, Hello Sailor, Galaxy Song, Fcc Song, I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio, I Like Chinese. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a popular song written by Eric Idle that originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals. Whilst trying to come up with a way of ending the film Monty Python's Life of Brian, Eric Idle wrote an original version of the song which was sung in a more straight fashion, which the other Python members agreed would be good enough for the end of the film. Whilst practising the song, during a break in filming, Idle found that the song worked better if sung in a more cheeky manner. This new version was used in the film and became one of the Python's most famous songs. Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman) has been sentenced to death by crucifixion for his part in a kidnap plot. After a succession of apparent rescue opportunities all come to nothing, a character on a nearby cross (played by Eric Idle) attempts to cheer him up by singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" to him. As the song progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims (140 in all, according to the script, though fewer than that are actually seen on screen) begin to dance in a very limited way and join in with the song's whistled hook. The song continues as the scene changes to a long-shot of the crosses and the credits begin to roll. An instrumental version plays over the second half of the credits. "Alway...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=940764 ... 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 : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bobby Robson, Ridley Scott, Eric Idle, Callum Keith Rennie, Sting, Pete Doherty, Bobby Charlton, Tony Scott, Flora Robson, Anthony Eden, Gertrude Bell, Michael Carrick, John Blenkinsop, Harold Jeffreys, Charles Foulkes, Taylor Wane, Paul Kennedy, Graham Rowntree, James Simpson-Daniel, Billy Brown, Will Hay, Charlie Wayman, Giuseppe Wilson, Andrew Springgay, Matthew Festing, Lee Cattermole, Gem Archer, Kiki Dee, Thomas Allen, Émile Thubron, David Mackenzie, Jonathan Franks, Robson Green. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née le 6 mars 1806 à Coxhoe Hall, dans le comté de Durham, et décédée le 29 juin 1861 à Florence, est une poétesse, essayiste et pamphlétaire anglaise de l'ère victorienne. Ses parents, Edward Moulton Barrett et Mary Graham-Clarke, ont eu douze enfants, huit garçons et quatre filles, dont l'une décède alors qu'Elizabeth a huit ans. Dès son plus jeune âge, elle commence à écrire. Son intérêt la porte vers les œuvres de l'Antiquité gréco-latine et hébraïque lues dans le texte. Elle cultive aussi les grands classiques anglais, français, allemands et italiens. Sa vie bascule lorsque, à la fin de son adolescence, elle est frappée par une paralysie sans doute d'origine psychosomatique, aggravée par la perte de sa mère en 1828 et, surtout, par le décès tragique, en 1840, de son frère préféré, Edward. Elle vit alors en recluse dans sa chambre du 50, Wimpole Street à Londres, auprès d'un père à l'affection tyrannique envers ses enfants auxquels il entend imposer le célibat. Le poète Robert Browning, ébloui par la lecture d'un recueil de ses poèmes, entreprend avec elle une correspondance qui devient vite amoureuse. Au bout de deux ans...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... 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 : Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Noel Gallagher, Slash, Mark Knopfler, Pete Townshend, Eric Idle, Ronnie Caryl, the Edge, John Renbourn, Angus Young, Jeff Beck, Mick Jones, Alvin Lee, Allan Holdsworth, Billy Childish, Tony Iommi, John Mcgeoch, Justin Hawkins, Dave Mason, Bert Jansch, Dave Stewart, Andy Fairweather-Low, Duncan Browne, Steven Wilson, Chris Spedding, Peter Green, Ron Wood, Derek Bailey, Gavin Rossdale, Andy Summers, Porl Thompson, Alexis Korner, Amy Macdonald, Malcolm Young, Matthew Bower, Steve Clark, Steve Rothery, Mick Ronson, K. K. Downing, Nikki Sudden, Glenn Tipton, Peter Frampton, Tim Staffell, Gian Pyres, Tom Fletcher, Dhani Harrison, Mickey Finn, Roger C. Field, Tim Bricheno, Janick Gers, Roy Wood, Steve Hackett, Johnny Marr, Steve Jones, Andy Sneap, Ken Hensley, Phil Campbell, Robin Eaglestone, Brian Willoughby, Dave Davies, Jimmy Mccullouch, Colin Newman, Bernard Sumner, Anthony "Top" Topham, Justin Hayward, Jimmy Mcculloch, Laurence Juber, Ronny Jordan, Gary Green, Alex Fergusson, Mick Box, Jamie Cook, Vivian Campbell, Trevor Burton, Adrian Legg, Bryan Josh, Chris Dreja, David Gray, Dale Stewart, Perry Bamonte, Phil Collen, Paul Atkinson, Bernard Butler, Mel Galley, Rob Holliday, Dave Cousins, Stuart Anstis, Baz Warne, Pete Willis, Curtis Ward, Bob Sawyer, Marco Pirroni, Ramon Goose, Rod Price, John Mitchell, Steve Peregrin Took. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Eric Clapton CBE, né le 30 mars 1945 à Ripley, près de Londres en Angleterre, est un guitariste, chanteur et compositeur de blues et de rock britannique. En 2003, le mensuel Rolling Stone l'a classé quatrième meilleur guitariste de tous les temps. Ses fans l'ont surnommé « God » (Dieu). Né à Ripley, dans ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... 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 : Thomas Sydenham, Eric Idle, Abba Eban, Pieter Voltelyn Graham Van Der Byl, Richard Brandram, Maurice Dobb, William Turner, John Sulston, John Neville Keynes, Simon Donaldson, George Poulett Scrope, Temple Chevallier, Nicholas Bethell, William Burnside. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Thomas Sydenham (ou Syndenham) (10 septembre 1624 - 29 décembre 1689), est un médecin anglais. Il est né à Wynford Eagle dans le Dorset où son père possédait un domaine. À l'âge de dix-huit ans, Sydenham est entré au Magdalen College à Oxford. Très rapidement, il semble avoir interrompu ses études au collège et il a servi un temps comme officier dans l'armée du parlement au cours de la Première révolution anglaise. Il a terminé ses études à Oxford en 1648 et obtenu son diplôme de bachelier en médecine et, à peu près en même temps, a été élu membre du All Souls College. Il lui a fallu attendre près de trente ans de plus pour obtenir le diplôme de Docteur en médecine en 1676, non pas à Oxford, mais au Pembroke College de Cambridge, où son fils aîné était alors étudiant. Après 1648, il semble qu'il ait passé quelque temps à étudier la médecine à Oxford, mais il reprend bientôt le service armé et en 1654, il reçoit une somme de 600 livres à la suite d'une requête adressée à Oliver Cromwell, soulignant les arriérés dus à ses deux frères tués au combat et rappelant à Cromwell qu'il avait lui-même fidèlement servi le Parlement et versé également son sang. En 1655, il quitte ses compagnons d'études à All Souls, se marie et part étudier la médecine à Montpellier. En 1663 il passe les examens du Collège des médecins pour obtenir le permis d'exercer à Westminster et dans un rayon de 6 milles à la ronde, mais il est probable q...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, Galaxy Song, Fcc Song, I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio, I Like Chinese. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. 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: "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a popular song written by Eric Idle that originally featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals. Whilst trying to come up with a way of ending the film Monty Python's Life of Brian, Eric Idle wrote an original version of the song which was sung in a more straight fashion, which the other Python members agreed would be good enough for the end of the film. Whilst practising the song, during a break in filming, Idle found that the song worked better if sung in a more cheeky manner. This new version was used in the film and became one of the Python's most famous songs. Brian Cohen (played by Graham Chapman) has been sentenced to death by crucifixion for his part in a kidnap plot. After a succession of apparent rescue opportunities all come to nothing, a character on a nearby cross (played by Eric Idle) attempts to cheer him up by singing "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" to him. As the song progresses, many of the other crucifixion victims (140 in all, according to the script, though fewer than that are actually seen on screen) begin to dance in a very limited way and join in with the song's whistled hook. The song continues as the scene changes to a long-shot of the crosses and the credits begin to roll. An instrumental version plays over the second half of the credits. "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was conceived as a parody of the style of song often featured in Di...http://booksllc.net/?id=940764 ... 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. Excerpt: 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. Idle was born in South Shields, Newcastle-Upon Tyne (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 already refused to be senior boy in the school cadet force, as he supported the Campaign for N... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=52042 ... 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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Not that big...or particularly red.Pages of silliness based on the original television series. ... Read more

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thin python is better than no python
It isn't huge.It's laced with themes from the tv shows.

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red
Monty Python's Big Red Book has a lot of material from the show, which makes it a good one. This may not take you that long to read, but I think it'll be worth it. I first read this over my friend's house a few years ago, and I thought it was cool, so I got myself a copy.I'm surprised the spam song is in it with the lumberjack song. It's a nice thing to read right before you go to bed.Look, just read it yourself and see what you think.

Bigger rip-off than final rip-off
First of all, this book is neither big, nor red. It's quite thin actually, and is blue. There is limited new material in it, and the actual new material isn't very special. This doesn't seem like a Monty Python product at all. It was probably thrown together at the last minute. I purchased this today, finished it an hour ago, and I'm still frustrated with it. However, I purchased the "First 280 years of Monty Python" book, and really like it so far. "The Pythons" is also good, but is kind of all over the place, but "280 years" is mainly focused on the television show. So in conclusion, hesitate on this one, unless you think it will bethe last Python book you'll ever buy.

Blue
Inevitably, this is a big blue book. My hardback copy dates from 1971, and originally cost 1.50 ukp. It's a fairly slim collection of material based around the first couple of series of the show - an advertisement for'Whizzo Chocolate Assortment', a series of introductions fromincreasingly-flustered newsreaders, pages of classified ads, and more thana few naked women. It's much less effective than the television show - thetranscriptions lose a lot without the delivery, and the original bits seemrushed. It has recently been re-released, and you can probably read it allwhilst standing up in the shop. ... Read more

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The complete text of the filmscript of "The Life of Brian" is backed up with an extremely silly souvenir book describing the making of the film, including the essay "Sharing a caravan with John Cleese" by Michael Palin and several scenes omitted from the final version of the film. ... Read more

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If you've seen the movie....
The format is a mass-market paperback, but this isn't a novelization but rather the screenplay as the movie was made. You'll notice that last has a subtle distinction. Oftentimes screenplays differ notably from the movies as you see them--scenes are cut because they didn't work, cost too much to do, or just because of the limits of time. The screenplays of Brazil and Monty Python and the Holy Grail are full of wonderful little tidbits that didn't make it to the screen. Unfortunately, for Life of Brian, there's only the parts that did get made, which are funny indeed, but you've already seen them. ... Read more

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Written by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame. Magazine format. 1976. ... Read more

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I will leave my husband for Eric Idle!!
Okay, okay, maybe I won't go THAT far, but what a wonderful Idle book!First chapter (Vatican Sex Manual) has all sorts of wonderful pictures from the 70's.The naughty parts are (regrettably or not) covered in all pictures, so, if it was a movie, I would say it's a hard R rather than an X.But a must-have for any Idle fan.

Really funny satire. Period.
Eric Idle is a man to be worshipped. This is not an excuse for him to get naked, this is a great work of comedic satire. Mr. Idle wowed the masses in Monty Python, now he'll wow you again with this very funny book. Not as deep as The Road to Mars of course, but exceptionally enjoyable. Plus, it features some real great pictures of Eric in the nude, that are often nearly artistic and always steamy hot. (If that's your thing.) ... Read more