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By Mark Chevalier
Qamacock Staff Writer
For those of us who have suffered
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the completion of the BBC series,
Monty Python's Flying Circus,
rejoice, the laughs are back!
Beginning last Sunday, and for
the next five Sundays at 11 p.m. on
ETV channel 35, John Cleese of
Monty Python fame, brings to the
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Towers.
Written by Cleese and his wife,
Connie Booth, the comedy revolves
around a slightly posh hotel,
frantically run by eccentric Basil
Fawlty, played by Cleese. Prunella
Scales portrays Basil's wife, Sybil,
whose main function seems to be
ordering Basil around. As Basil
attempts to do everything (at once,
of course), he is constantly confronted
by the totally inept
waitress, Polly, played by Booth,
Weeke
By David Baker
Entenainmont Editor
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so oblivious to the viewer's feelings
seems downright sinister. Anythir
potentially jolting (or revolting) t
puts onscreen, including several
bowelment. (R) JeffersonSquare
Americathon: Set in the 1990's, v
of buttressing the American econo
telethon. The political satire
television's hottest properties,
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dozens of top-heavy actresses (?,
the American countryside. (X) Fox
The Brood: Tacky little mish-mc
bird-beaked children. Oliver Reed
and Art Hindle fill the leading roles
Dracula: John Badham directe
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movements seem a bit stiff at tirr
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Hamilton Deane, are outstanding.
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Harrison Ford. (PG) Plaza
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and the hotel's Spanish-speaking
porter, Manuel.
The scenes between Basil and
the porter, impeccably portrayed
by Andrew Sachs, were some of the
most hilarious comical exchanges
I've seen in years. The problem is,
of course, one of language. Basil
seems totally convinced of his
ability to communicate in Spanish,
yet it obviously all sounds Greek to
Manuel, who for all of his apparent
attentiveness and head nodding,
leaves the request unfulfilled.
The twist comes when the
customer, who has been patiently
standing by during the entire
scenario, suddenly blurts out one
or two Spanish words, which sends
Manuel scurrying off with the
luggage or to some other
respective task.
Cleese has developed a wonderfully
spastic neurotic in Basil, a
character committed to action, not
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words, but who ends up wasting all
of his time explaining why he gets
nothing done. A paradox, to be
sure, yet a very believable one, one
in fact that most of us experience
at one time or another.
Cleese says he strives to
maintain a certain amount of
relevancy and credibility in the
situations he creates. "I dislike
humor I can't believe in," he says.
"No matter how daft something
becomes, it's got to be credible at
the level it's offered and real to the
characters involved in it."
"If Fawlty Towers continues to
be only half as funny as last
sunaay s snow, we are in for a
rollicking good close to a comically
parched summer.
Go ahead, laugh, and book a
room for Sunday nights at Fawlty
Towers. You'll checkout with a
grin.
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itmen, Burt Reynolds and Sally Field
>rice of admission. (PG) Columbia
jnce: George Roy Hill's latest gem
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an extended cartoon sketch from
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[etches, it is very funny as a whole,
veral instances, more than a bit
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thing. The stunts are exciting, the
itiful and Roger Moore is the picture
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and Madeline Kahn join Kermit the
Piggy in their first big-screen ex?Bush
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