Arts, Culture and Entertainment in Montreal
“So much has been written about Monty Python. There have been memoirs, diaries, books about the Pythons, books by the Pythons about other Pythons, articles about the books about the Pythons, countless interviews, autobiographies, documentaries…so many documentaries. I honestly think there are more hours of documentary about Python then there are hours of Python.” -Eric […]
“I hope this book feels like a Simpsons episode: fast-paced, full of quick scenes, and stuffed with hundreds of jokes, some of them funny. I’ve even structured it like a Simpsons script, which has four acts: setup, complication, resolution and coda.” -Mike Reiss (from Springfield Confidential, page 7) In the mid-2000’s I was employed as […]
“David’s penchant for using real names and real-life stories in Seinfeld scripts, week after week, without any effort to conceal constructed a third dimension: There was reality; there was television; and there was Seinfeldia, where the elements of both comingled, passed through, and, as the show’s audience grew, enticed fans into feeling like this was […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! (@AKessaris) “The songs were composed with sundry goals in mind, producing great art barley being one of them. But the songs – the best of them, anyway – took on lives of their own: it turned out they lent themselves to being interpreted in different styles and with different […]
By Andreas Kessaris for Curtains Up! “Phil has done more work that’s touched greatness than probably anybody else who’s been here.” -Lorne Michaels Are you familiar with these phrases? “Fire bad!” “I’m just a caveman….” “Hello, I’m Troy McClure. You may remember me from such movies as…” If you recognize any of the above, then […]