June 8, 2005
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Quest
“Mike Nichols, who oversaw Monty Python’s Spamalot, picked
up the prize for directing a musical.A somewhat flustered Nichols told the audience he had forgotten
what he intended to say, but then went on to thank his company and
Eric Idle, ‘from whom all blessings flow.’”One of my
favorite books:
Excerpt from the chapter
“All Blessings Flow (Very Large Array)”–“I started to cry. My search was over.
In a home for the deranged I had found
the last of the holy Thirty-Six….‘Beam me up, Scotty.’”
Related material:
In memory of Anne Bancroft
and her work in
84 Charing Cross Road —entries of Dec. 11-13, 2002,
and entries of
All Souls’ Day, 2004,
and of June 8, 2003.
