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PALIN SPEAKING An inside look at the Life of Python

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Writer: Michael Palin; Genres: Humor, Nonfiction; Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
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By Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk
Josh Wolk is a senior writer at EW and the author of ''Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desparate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor''

After two comprehensive oral histories about Monty Python, is there anything left to reveal? But Michael Palin's delightful Diaries 1969-1979 recounts the troupe's heyday in real time, from the first BBC season through Life of Brian. He sometimes misses the greatest hits, like the evolution of the Holy Grail script. Still, he's honest but kind about unreliable alcoholic Graham Chapman (''I am hamstrung by an ever-conciliatory nature'') and touching about his dad's death from Parkinson's. Though unelaborated mentions of low-profile projects like Ripping Yarns might confuse some, insatiable fans will finish all 650 pages and say, ''That's it?'' A-


Posted Aug 31, 2007
 

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