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Monty Python member says he can 't recall all those lines
By Stew Magnuson
Senior Reporter
Monty Python's Graham Chapman
did radio interviews and press
conferences from the moment
he stepped off the plane at Lincoln
International Airport.
Chapman's road manager informed
us that Bob Atherton, a cartoonist for a
UNO publication, and I could only
speak to him while walking from Avery
Hall to the car outside Love Library.
"Walk really, really slow," I told him
as we were rushed out of the studio.
S.M.: "Are the British as ashamed
of 'Benny Hill' as we are of 'Three's
Company'?"
G.C.: "I think so. The notion about
'Benny Hill' is that once you've seen
one, you've seen them all. It's all t and a
stuff, really."
S.M.: "We started watching Monty
Python when we were 13 years old. All
of our parents blame you for corrupting
us. How do you respond to that?"
G.C.: "1 hope we did. I'm all for
corruption. I think corruption broad
ens the mind."
B.A.: "Does it bother you when
people come up and ask you to recite
lines from your TV shows?"
G.C.: "Yes, if I don't remember
them. They get very annoyed. It's been
a long time since we actually did them.
People seem to have the most remar
kably intricate knowledge of them. But
it's been so long since I've been involved
with the program that sometimes I can
get caught out."
S.M.: "Have you ever had any prac
tical use for geometry since you left
school?"
G.C.: "That's a tricky question. Yes,
I suppose I have."
S.M.: "There goes my theory."
G.C.: 'mat was your theory?"
S.M. "That you don't need geome
try to live your life."
G.C.: "I suppose you're right. I
quite agree with you, but it was cer
tainly better than algebra." .
S.M.: "This is kind of an unusual
request. But last week I waited two
hours to interview living blues legend
Johnny Copeland but he never called
me. So I was wondering if you could
answer some of the questions I had for
him?"
G.C.: "Well, all right."
S.M.: "Why do you think the blues
is undergoing another revival?"
G.C.: "I'm pleased that it is. I mean
I really am pleased that it's going so
well. I mean the whole mood has
changed, I think. But it's still the
blues."
S.M.: "How did you album 'Show
down' with Robert Cray and Albert Col
lins come about?"
G.C.: "Oh, well, we all enjoyed that
a great deal. It was just a real hoot from
beginning to end."
S.M.: "You won a Grammy for it.
How did the three of you decide who
got to keep the trophy?"
G.C.: "Well, we all decided that
over a pool of blood."
S.M.: "Last time you were her you
drank from a can of Tab. What would
you say about someone who kept, that
can and still had it five years later?"
G.C.: "Are they pretty?"
B.A.: "No, it's me. Do you want it
back?"
G.C.: "Oh no. That's quite all right.
Maybe this time you can have the Diet
Coke."
B.A.: "Did you ever meet Davey
Jones from the Monkees?"
G.C.: "No, I haven't had that plea-
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Graham Chapman
sure, but I have met Micky Dolenz. I
even lived in his house in California."
That was about it. We walked pain
fully slowly to the green convertible,
but our time was up. We shook hands,
then he drove off with his entourage.
Typical Hollywood ending detracts
from movie !s cinematic success
By Kevin Cowan
Staff Reporter
American mainstream cinema always
wants a happy ending. And they will
bar no farcical whim to assure that the
conclusion is just that . . . happy.
Unfortunately, "3 For the Road" doesn't
break the caste.
Movie Review
"3 For the Road" tells the fairytale
story of an aspiring congressional aide
named Paul (Charlie Sheen). Paul and
his writer cronie T.S. (Alan Ruck),
attempting to brown-nose the senator
who signs Paul's paychecks, accept the
"mission" of taking his "troubled"
daughter to a juvenile reform school.
Fitting the normal iconic politician,
the Senator instructs Paul to "keep the
operation discreet." Of course, it's any
thing but inconspicuous. Oddly enough,
for as much trouble as the three cause,
they never get busted imagine that.
No matter how large the problem,
the decadent three waltz through with
out a scratch. Although they steal a car,
vandalize a hotel, drive with reckless
abandon and casually stroll through
leech-filled bogs, in the end they ride
without a care into the wretched sunset.
Absolutely unbelievable.
For a paragraph or two, let's set
unrealistic irony aside and bring to the
surface the positive aspects of the film.
The narrative isn't too bad. In fact, a
road trip similar to this one, but not
quite so dramatic, has probably taken
place before. Politician's kids, in the
tradition of the "preacher's daughter,"
are always best known for wreaking
havoc.
Kerri Green, playing the troubled
offspring, Robin, puts forth a delightful
performance. Her character is uniquely
believeable and adds immense color to
the odd narrative.
Paul's cohort, the writer, though he
never types a word, keeps the plot
light. Ruck's character is most inter
esting. His goal is to find the perfect
woman who can spout just as much
literary gibberish as he can. And of
course, he does. Storybook romance
aside, Ruck offsets Sheen's tendency to
overact.
Charlie Sheen wasted no time in
making another film. And a unique
comedy no less. Sheen wants to have
the intensity of his father, Martin, but a
comedy is not the place for such drama.
His character is not thoroughly thought
out. Here's a guy, hanging around with
conservative politicians, whose own views
are anything but right-wing. Pictures of
"Give 'em hell" Harry and "Big Brother"
Ron hang on his wall, yet the guy is
running around with an 18-year-old
problem child. He can't seem to decide
whether he wants to be a politician or
Robin's Don Juan.
The ending is a sick piece of com
mercial garbage. Through hell and high
water, the trio finally arrives at the
juvenile institute.
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