Tuesday, January 06, 2009
The Things You Learn While Poking Around at Wikipedia
On the intertubes, one thing leads to another; thus, you can start at Michael Palin and wind up finding out all sorts of interesting things, to wit:
Terry Gilliam is planning to resume production on the Don Quixote project that was so rudely interrupted by NATO fighter planes, a Texas-sized thunderstorm, and an incapacitated leading man a few years back. (If you haven't seen Lost in La Mancha, the documentary that was fortuitously shot in the midst of the Quixote chaos, do, do, do. The grit and humor with which Gilliam faces setback after setback is truly marvelous to behold.)
Michael Palin may come out of acting retirement to play Don Quixote.
George Harrison almost played Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount at the beginning of Life of Brian.
