You know how I hate to be redundant
To repeat myself. To say the same thing, over and over. But I wanted to say that I really hope most of you are reading Eric Idle’s Greedy Bastard Tour diary regularly. It’s absolutely terrific. In today’s installment he gives a firm rebuke to Kill Bill, and prompted by the presence of Uma Thurman in that film, drifts into reminiscence of the harrowing production of Terry Gilliam’s Adventures of Baron Munchausen, in which he starred with the then 17 year old Thurman. I’ve read books of all different kinds by the various Pythons, and of them all Idle may be the best at creatively and entertainingly expressing his thoughts on paper (or computer screen, as the case may be). His novel Road To Mars suffered from the fact that it probably would have played better as the screenplay it was originally intended to be, but Idle’s thoughts about the philosophy of humor (that does sound stuffy, which they aren’t) and autobiographical ruminations stick in the mind. I hope in the next few years a definitive autobiography will emerge.
