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Pic reunites Monty Python members

‘Absolutely Anything’ will be sci-fi comedy

By: DAVE MCNARY
Members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus are reteaming for “Absolutely Anything,” a sci-fi farce combining CGI and live action, with Terry Jones to direct and Mike Medavoy to produce.

Plans are for filming to begin in the U.K. this spring, with the Pythons voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do “absolutely anything” to see what a mess he’ll make of things — which is precisely what happens. There’s also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character.

“It’s not a Monty Python picture, but it certainly has that sensibility,” Jones told Variety.
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   Jazz Library
Jazz Library January 21, 2012


Throughout his career, Barney Bigard graced many jazz settings with his fluent New Orleans clarinet. Dave Gelly joins Alyn Shipton to select some of Bigard’s finest records.

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