Eric Idle

NEIL INNES says he's reached that certain age at which "it's almost impossible not to have done quite a lot." That's certainly an understatement in Innes' case. Over the last four decades, the 63-year-old singer-songwriter has fronted the beloved British...

IT'S a dark and crowded theater in New York. The curtain has only been up five minutes, and Steve Wynn, the billionaire owner of the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, leans in, grips my knee and whispers in my ear: "Eric," he says, "this will be great in Las Vegas."...

The legendary comedy troupe Monty Python will mount a new campaign on American shores starting on Memorial Day. BBC America has acquired the rights to all four seasons of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" -- plus a pair of specials the troupe did for West...

The Rutles put yet another spin on pop-music reality with a 30th-anniversary event Monday in Hollywood that included what turned out to be the first performance ever by the four members of the ersatz Liverpudlian rock group. Although the Rutles made...

Delgo is yet more proof that not everyone with access to the tools and talent pool to make an animated film should be allowed to. It's a focus-group film, from its all-star voice cast ( Jennifer Love Hewitt, Burt Reynolds) to its mash-up of a plot and...

RADIO programs that survive in Los Angeles for a quarter-century come along about as frequently as a SigAlert-free day on the freeway. On that front alone, this year's 25th anniversary of "Breakfast With the Beatles" constitutes a minor miracle, to say...

"Monty Python's Spamalot," the hit musical that had a successful pre-Broadway tryout in Chicago last winter, has made plans to return to the city of its birth in the spring. After an initial stand in Boston, the first national tour of "Spamalot" (a spoof...

The cast of DreamWorks Animation's "Shrek the Third" just continues to expand, adding a slew of funny men and women. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the "Strangers With Candy" star Amy Sedaris and "Saturday Night Live" alums Amy Poehler, Maya...

Amidst the building momentum for Michael Bay's live-action adaptation of "Transformers," Sony is hoping to remind viewers that this is hardly the first cinematic appearance for the Autobots and Decepticons. Sony BMG Music Entertainment announced plans on...

Editor's note: It will be welcome news to devotees of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" — the 1975 movie inspired "Spamalot," the Tony-winning musical — that the distributor struck a new print and restored 24 seconds that were snipped prior to...

Michael Palin may be best known for his roles in "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and the highly irreverent film "Life of Brian," but it is through his travels that many of us feel a common bond. In 1988, he undertook a globe-circling trip for the BBC...

A good time for Monty Python obsessives as well as the Python-indifferent, "Monty Python's Spamalot" shares much in common with Hormel's mysterious canned product, the one packed with chopped pork shoulder meat and a few other things. You're not...