Authors on the Web
Telegraph, October 16, 2009
...The Movies (£15.99, RRP £34.99. 680691) Four manically brilliant films from Cleese and co, plus a Michael Palin documentary about the Holy Grail’s locations. 3 The Woody Allen Collection, Set 1 (£29.99, RRP £34.99. 687016) The first of three Allen...
Time, October 16, 2009
...over the phrase "ruthless efficiency," as the five comedians looked on and applauded like proud grandpas. Quipped Michael Palin, "We just need four more like her and we can all piss off!" The half-hour exchange started off creakily, with the Pythons...
USA Today, October 14, 2009
...Cleese, 69 Best Python moments: "The nature documentary (in the pantomime horse episode); reading Cheese Shop and causing Michael Palin to fall off his chair laughing." Comedy favorites: Jerry Seinfeld, Eddie Izzard, Bill Bailey, Jay Leno, Bill Maher....
Daily Express, October 9, 2009
...MICHAEL PALIN, the seemingly most normal of the Pythons, is to be commended for his grafting for his determination never to fritter away a single morning. Or a single penny. My...
Darlington & Stockton Times, October 2, 2009
...Michael Palin talks to Hannah Stephenson about his newly-published diaries from the 1980s MICHAEL Palin, writer, actor, TV journeyman and all round Mr Nice Guy, arrives at our interview apologising for...
Observer, September 21, 2009
...Michael Palin's diaries will be a boon to all Monty Python fans, says Caroline Boucher He describes himself as a 'neat, anally retentive little list keeper', but actually Michael Palin...
Guardian Unlimited, September 4, 2009
...a good stand-up you have to be verbally pretty skilled.' Other celebrities with memoirs out this autumn include Michael Palin, Chris Evans, Ozzy Osbourne, Leona Lewis and Katie Price, while comedian Dara O'Briain has written a guide to the English,...
Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2009
...the type first popularized by H. Rider Haggard, captured on celluloid in Saturday afternoon serials and satirized by Michael Palin in his underrated 1970s series ?Ripping Yarns?? The opening day lines around the block for "Indiana Jones and the...
Tiscali, August 26, 2009
...only Penguin's overseas guides at its travel stores. The deal caused an outcry from travel writers, including Michael Palin, when it was announced in June. Under the agreement, brands such as Lonely Planet, Time Out and Bradt are not stocked in 265 of WH...
Guardian Unlimited, August 26, 2009
...only Penguin's overseas guides at its travel stores. The deal caused an outcry from travel writers, including Michael Palin, when it was announced in June. Under the agreement, brands such as Lonely Planet, Time Out and Bradt are not stocked in 265 of WH...
M2, July 15, 2009
...announced on Tuesday that the Weidenfeld & Nicholson imprint will be publishing a new contemporary novel written by Michael Palin. The novel is scheduled to be published in May 2011. Palin's previous novel, titled Hemingway's Chair, was published in 1995...
Guardian Unlimited, July 15, 2009
...1995's Hemingway's Chair 'I feel it is time to give the imagination a bit of exercise' ... Michael Palin. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/ Veteran travel writer and Monty Python star Michael Palin is turning his hand to fiction again, more than a decade since...
The Bookseller, July 15, 2009
... Victoria Gallagher Michael Palin is to write a new novel for Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Palin has previously written novel Hemingway's Chair for Methuen, which was published in 1995. His new novel is...
Disinformation, July 14, 2009
...notably cheerful year for admirers of Ernest Hemingway ? a surprisingly diverse set of people who range from Michael Palin to Elmore Leonard. Almost every month has brought good news: a planned Hemingway biopic; a new, improved version of his memoir, A...
Guardian Unlimited, June 20, 2009
...Michael Palin, Terry Jones & John Cleese in the 1975 film 'Monty Python And The Holy Grail'. Photograph: Michael White Production/Allstar Are these the best of times or the worst of...
UTV Internet, June 17, 2009
...in airports, and rail and bus stations ? to the exclusion of all rival brands' titles. Travel guru Michael Palin immediately slammed the pact as an 'unacceptable restriction', while the chair of the Society of Authors, Margaret Drabble, took no...
Tiscali, June 12, 2009
...the bookseller's controversial plans to remove overseas travel guides from any other publisher from its shelves, with Michael Palin and Margaret Drabble adding their voices to the growing opposition. Speaking to the Guardian, Margaret Drabble branded the...
Guardian Unlimited, June 12, 2009
...Michael Palin. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The Office of Fair Trading is due to investigate the deal between WH Smith and Penguin following complaints about the bookseller's controversial plans to remove...
Guardian Unlimited, June 12, 2009
...Michael Palin. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA The Office of Fair Trading is due to investigate the deal between WH Smith and Penguin following complaints about the bookseller's controversial plans to remove...
Broadway World, May 27, 2009
...the Holy Grail' by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez. Casey Nicholaw is the choreographer...
Broadway World, May 16, 2009
...the Holy Grail' by Monty Python creators Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, with music and lyrics by the Grammy Award-winning team of Mr. Idle and John Du Prez. Casey Nicholaw is the choreographer. To...
Examiner.com, May 4, 2009
...of Steve Coogan, Stephen Fry, and a most importantly, the Pythons Eric Idle, Terry Jones, John Cleese, and Michael Palin. The Shelia Burnford novel The Incredible Journey details the adventure of what was originally a Labrador named Luath, an Old English...
Southport Visiter - Home, October 21, 2009
...ACTOR, presenter, scriptwriter and comedian Michael Palin will be signing copies of his new book at Broadhurst’s bookshop in December...
ricklibrarian, September 21, 2009
...Journeys of the World , Great Journeys , and The Giants of Jazz . He seems to have known and liked Michael Palin and Terry Jones. We like them in America. I suspect we would have like Miles as well. If I ever get to England, I'll have to look for...
SpoutBlog, July 31, 2009
...an American (Kevin Kline), while it’s two BAFTA wins were for the British stars (John Cleese and Michael Palin). The “equal” (rather than sequel, since it’s the same cast in different roles) follow-up, Fierce Creatures , is also worth seeing, but...
Bookninja, June 15, 2009
...s just trying to let this blow over, but I suspect they’ll lost to the public outcry. Michael Palin comments : “No guide is ever perfect,” Palin continued, “and the ideal situation is to pick and choose from all the alternatives available. If...
Sore Eyes, June 13, 2009
...Note to the boards of directors of W H Smith and Penguin: when you’ve pissed off Michael Palin , it’s almost certainly a sign that you’re Doing Something Wrong… The Office of Fair Trading is due to look into the deal between WH Smith and Penguin...
Memex 1.1, June 13, 2009
...And I think Penguin will live to regret it. And it reinforces the urgency of breaking up BAA. Michael Palin is also pissed off about it...
