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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