Diaries 1969–1979 The Python Years

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by Palin, Michael

at San Sebastian Film Festival, 405

  Instant Record Collection, 406–7, 421

  at Cairo Film Festival, 410

  charity football matches, 413

  and Graham Chapman’s critical article, 424, 425

  Brazil, 535, 573, 578, 581, 589, 593

  and MP’s birthday, 551

  plans for fourth film, 572, 581

  car, 576

  children’s film (Time Bandits), 589–90, 593, 594, 597, 605, 606

  birthday, 598–9

  see also And Now For Something Completely Different; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; Monty Python’s Flying Circus; Monty Python’s Life of Brian

  Girodias, Maurice, trial of, 236–7

  Gladstone, W.E., Monty Python sketch, 1

  Glasgow

  Aladdin performed in, 51–2

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 118

  Ripping Yarns book-signing tour, 514

  GLC elections, 22

  Gledhill, John, xv, 57, 68

  And Now For Something Completely Different, 84

  Another Monty Python Record, 61, 82, 85

  Canadian tour, 121

  Monty Python business meeting, 139

  and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 141–2

  fourth series of Monty Python, 150

  and Drury Lane show, 152–3

  ceases to be Pythons’ manager, 194n, 208–9 and n

  Glencoe, 346

  filming Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 167, 168, 390n

  Gleneagles Hotel, Torquay, origins of Fawlty

  Towers, 24 and n, 25

  The Glittering Prizes (television serial), 285

  Gloucester, Duke of, 239 and n

  The Go-Between (film), 77 and n

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 25

  Godley, Wyn, 417

  Going Straight (television programme), 542

  Goldberg, Howard, 550

  ‘The Golden Age of Ballooning’ (script), 182, 184

  ‘Golden Gordon’ see Ripping Yarns

  Golden Square, London, 400

  Goldschmidt, Yves de, 546

  Goldsmith, Sir James, 331

  Goldstone, John, xv, 141n, 510, 562, 585

  and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 141, 142, 143, 146, 148, 190, 211, 214, 229, 231, 239

  Fegg film proposed, 287

  and Jabberwocky, 335, 343, 356, 361, 372, 373, 377, 378

  and The Life of Brian, 372, 420, 436, 447, 462, 464, 486, 493, 497, 507, 514–15, 517, 523–4, 525

  Berlin Film Festival, 391–2

  Christmas party, 425–6

  Pythons sue EMI, 497

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail re-released, 550

  Gold water, Barry, 304

  Goldwater, Marvin, 304

  Golfs, Regina, 124 Good Food Guide, 199

  John Cleese in Hull without, 551

  Good Morning America (US television programme), 577

  Good Times Enterprises, 253

  Goodgold, Ed, 231 and n, 253, 453, 462, 465

  The Goodies, 101, 225, 333, 336, 365, 414, 425

  Goodies and the Beanstalk special, 135

  Amnesty International show, 300, 301, 322

  BBC rejects scripts, 399

  Goodrington Sands, Devon, 26

  Gooiden, Richard, 160

  Goon Show, 67, 101, 591, 593

  Gordon, Nick, 366 and n

  Gordon, Ruth, 68n, 302, 309

  Gordon family, 588

  Gordonstoun School, 586–8

  Gorge of Eternal Peril, Glencoe, 167, 180, 390n

  Goring, Oxfordshire, 241

  Gorleston, 384

  Gorman, John, 41n, 325–6, 534

  Gospel Oak, London

  redevelopment scheme, 14 and n, 92, 604

  Nuts in May Festival, 235–6

  Old Folk’s Party, 272

  MP flies over, 554

  see also Oak Village

  Gospel Oak School, 138–9, 421, 585

  Gottchild, Hans, 88

  Grade, Leslie, 548n

  Grade, Lew, 425, 548 and n

  Graef, Roger, 303, 305

  films Amnesty International show, 296, 297, 299, 300, 301, 322

  Graham, Billy, 266

  Grammy Awards, 289

  Granada Cinema, Harrow, 56

  Grand Canyon, 76n

  Grand Central Café, New York, 272

  Grand Central Station, New York, 251, 272, 278, 528

  La Grande Bouffe (film), 151 and n

  Grants Bookshop, Stirling, 513

  Grass, Gunter, The Tin Drum, 91

  The Grateful Dead, 552

  Gray, Simon, 139n

  Great Railway Journeys (television series), 601, 604–5

  Great Tew, Oxfordshire, 419

  The Greatest Story Ever Told (film), 352

  Green, Adolph, 307

  Green, Al, 126

  Green, Henry, 442

  Greenwich, 134

  Greenwich Theatre, 371

  Greenwood, Chris, 214

  Greenwood, Dizzy (Terry J’s sister-in-law), 282

  Greenwood, Hilary (MP’s uncle), 357

  Greenwood, Judy (MP’s cousin), 196 and n, 265

  Greenwood, Katherine (MP’s aunt), 357 and n

  Greenwood, Nigel (MP’s cousin), 196–7 and n, 265, 282, 299

  Greenwood, Sarah (MP’s cousin), 196n

  Greenwood Theatre, London, 595

  Gregson, Charles, 369, 377, 438, 563, 581

  Grenfell, Joyce, 585

  Griffiths, Martin, 394n, 397

  Griffiths, Trevor, Comedians, 540

  Gross, Mike, 249–50, 252

  Grunwald, Bavaria, 90

  Guadeloupe, 608

  The Guardian, 39, 131, 154, 238, 315, 324, 340, 365, 520, 597

  Watergate affair, 186

  reviews Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 225

  reviews Their Finest Hours, 316

  reviews Jabberwocky, 375

  San Seriffe April Fool, 375–6

  reviews Ripping Yarns, 410

  Guedalla, Christine, 91–2, 194, 520

  Guedalla, Helen, 484

  Guedalla, Louise, 440, 484

  Guedalla, Richard, 91–2, 194, 319 and n, 520

  Guildford, 63

  Guillermin, John, 357n

  Guinness, Alec, 463

  Guinness commercial, 45

  Gumby, Mr (Drury Lane employee), 160

  H

  Hackman, Gene, 20n, 353, 377

  Hackney, John, 190

  Hadrian’s Wall, 170 and n

  Hagerty, Bill, 172, 176

  Hahn, Kurt, 587

  Hall, Jerry, 454

  Hall, Peter (cameraman), 345, 401

  Hall Ellison, 581

  Ham House, Richmond, 1

  Hamill, Mark, 560

  Hammersmith Odeon, 265–6

  Hampshire, Stuart, 330

  Hampstead Classic (cinema), 237

  Hampstead Heath, 17, 19–20, 29, 68, 85, 108, 163, 237, 435, 549, 591, 594, 606

  Hampstead Theatre Club, 318, 319

  Hampton, Tim, 486, 496, 504, 510

  Hampton Court, 246

  Hancock, Roger, 14 and n, 30–1, 57

  Hancock, Tony, 14n

  Hancock and the Vikings (television programme), 261

  Handl, Irene, 143 and n

  Hang Down Your Head and Die (theatre show), 133 and n, 139n

  Hanover Grand, 189

  Harbourne Hall, High Halden, 476, 478

  Hardwicke, Edward, 537–8

  Hardy, Thomas, 199, 218

  The Return of the Native, 184

  Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 487, 488, 489, 493

  The Trumpet-Major, 241

  Harefield Grove, Rickmansworth, 346–7

  Harlech, Lord, 80 and n

  Harman, Bill, 329

  Harmony, Sally, 120

  Harris, Sandra, 512

  Harrison, Dhani, 512

  Harrison, George, 112, 209, 367, 462n, 484, 558, 576

  MP meets, 95


  and ‘Lumberjack Song’, 203, 257–8 and n, 309

  MP telephones, 204

  vegetarianism, 258, 368

  MP visits at Friar Park, 258–9, 511–12, 583–4

  in All You Need is Cash, 400–1

  and The Life of Brian, 503, 510, 557, 574–6

  I Me Mine, 512

  The Life of Brian preview, 525

  MP dubs voice of, 563

  in New York, 577, 578

  love of gardening, 583

  Python dinner, 601–2

  Harrison, Gerry, 168, 174

  Harrison, Olivia, 258 and n, 601

  Harrods chocolate factory, 98–9

  Harrogate, bans The Life of Brian, 601

  Hart, judith, 439

  Hartford, Connecticut, 526

  Hartford Courant, 251

  Harvey’s beer, 477

  Hassan (Moroccan waiter), 543

  Havergal, Giles, 51 and n

  Haverstock Hill Odeon, 48

  Hawkesworth, Simon and Jenny, 42 and n

  Hawkins, Jack, 240 and n

  Hayden, Sterling, 415

  Healey, Denis, 162

  Healey, Gerry, 423n

  Heath, Edward, 105, 339

  becomes Prime Minister, 28

  Bloody Sunday, 69, 71

  miners’ strike, 72, 73

  Monty Python LP, 85

  trade deficit, 136

  oil crisis, 148

  three-day week, 150, 524

  February 1974 election, 155–6, 157, 192

  New Year bank holiday, 202

  Heathrow Airport, 130, 155, 270–1, 279, 338, 379, 380, 391, 451, 525–6, 546–7, 597, 600

  Hefner, Hugh, 13

  Hellard, Ron, 173, 178, 226

  Heller, Joseph, 566

  Catch-22, 285

  Good as Gold, 551

  Something Happened, 285

  Hellman, Lillian, 345n

  Hemdale, 118

  Hemingford, Lord, 386

  Hemmings, David, 118–19

  Henderson, Don, 344, 345

  Henderson, Grace, 406

  Hendra, Tony, 263, 268

  Henley, 4, 258–9

  Henry IV (play), 450

  Henshaw, Anne, xiv, 157 and n, 197, 207, 254, 510, 547

  becomes Pythons’ manager, 194 and n

  financial problems at Charisma Records, 194, 195

  Monty Python business meetings, 209

  demise of Monty Python, 211

  premiere of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 225–6

  likes Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 262

  Monty Python show in New York, 284

  manages MP’s finances, 294–5

  and The Life of Brian, 344, 348–9, 447, 465, 565

  house in Regents Park, 367

  on Ripping Yarns, 403

  separation from Michael, 406, 448 and n

  in Tunisia, 497, 498

  party, 521

  working relationship with Denis O’Brien breaks down, 591

  Henshaw, Michael, xiv, 157 and n, 180, 197, 254

  manages MP’s finances, 294–5

  and The Life of Brian, 327–8, 479 and n

  house in Regents Park, 367

  separation from Anne, 406, 448 and n

  Henshaw, Rachel, 498

  Henstead Church, Suffolk, 181

  Hepburn, Katharine, 310, 497

  Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, 300, 561, 562, 563

  Herbert, Angela (MP’s sister), xii, 37n, 65, 450 and n, 596

  birthday, 129

  and her fathers illness, 159, 184

  watches first Fawlty Towers, 254

  depression, 297–8, 316–17

  and her fathers death, 381–2, 384

  Veryan’s mother dies, 519

  Herbert, Camilla (MP’s niece), xii, 37n, 130, 384

  Herbert, Jeremy (MP’s nephew), xii, 37 and n, 129–30, 316–17, 584

  Herbert, Marcus (MP’s nephew), xii, 37 and n, 130

  Herbert, Veryan (MP’s brother-in-law), xii, 37n, 65, 130, 254, 316, 381, 519

  Hermann, Dave, 252

  Heron Bay, Barbados, 429

  Hertzberg, Rik, 223–4, 271, 304, 319

  Herz, Tony, 483

  Herzog, Werner, 333

  Hessian, Colin, 105–6

  Hester Street (film), 327

  Hewison, Robert, xiii, 61, 115, 194, 202, 290–1, 297, 392n, 442, 603

  Hang Down Your Head and Die, 133 and n

  MP visits his flat, 96–7

  New Year’s Eve party, 201

  likes Tomkinson’s Schooldays, 262

  ‘Custard Pie’, 292n

  and Chris Orr’s john Ruskin, 297, 299, 318

  chairs BBC discussion programme, 330

  Christmas parry, 424

  Under Siege, Literary Life in London 1939–1945, 424n

  High Halden, Kent, 476

  Highbury Stadium, 522

  Highcliffe Hotel, Bournemouth, 2

  Highgate Ponds, 60, 418

  Hill, Jimmy, 83 and n

  Hill, Rosemary, 240

  Hilliard, Nicholas, 13

  Himalayas, Yeti expedition, 390

  Himmler, Heinrich, 6

  Hippodrome, Birmingham, 114

  Hitler, Adolf, 6, 156, 392, 399, 529

  Hitler A Career (film), 517

  Hobson, Harold, 157

  Hockney, David, 331

  Hogarth, Jack, 212

  Holiday Inn, London, 281, 317, 358, 363, 367, 388

  Holiday Inn, Santa Monica, 125

  Holland, 65, 196, 579

  Holhck, Clive, 328n 411

  socialism, 328

  takes charge at Shepperton, 332

  invites MP onto Shepperton board, 346, 353, 369

  Graham Ford and, 359

  Shepperton loses Superman to Pinewood, 377

  wedding, 400

  MP concerned over situation at Shepperton, 563–4

  Holloway, Julian, 292

  Holloway prison, 564–5

  Holly (Thomas’s friend), 209, 290, 426, 602

  Hollywood

  ‘First Farewell Tour’, 126–8

  The Life of Brian marketing trip, 554–8

  Hollywood Reporter, 420

  Home Box Office, 451

  Home Office, 66n, 133

  Home Reporter (US newspaper), 577

  Honeysett, Martin, 156

 

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