Subj : Re: Sue Jones-Davies
To : Reverend Ozone
From : Reverend Ozone
Date : Wed Jul 30 2008 11:24 am
From: "Reverend Ozone" <
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For reasons known only to Him, *Analda Anglin* typed:
> Erik D Larsen wrote:
>
>> I was just tipped off to this by a post in uk.media.tv.misc. Sue
>> Jones-Davies (Judith in LoB) is now the mayor of Aberystwyth, Wales -
>> and is trying to overturn her town's ban on showings of "Brian",
>> still in effect almost 30 years later!
>>
>> news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7514423.stm
> Hello Erik! Your post is timely. Just the other day, someone I knew
> was telling me how much he enjoyed Monty Python films but then remarked
> that he can't watch Life of Brian due to his personal beliefs. I was
> quite surprised those attitudes still existing in the face of today's
> movie and television offerings.
When "LOB" came out, I was quite the "Holy Roller" but still enjoyed the movie
as I "got" the joke. Actually, it's fairly historically accurate, as the times
were calling for a messiah of some sort, political or otherwise. Brian's
"disciples" just got it wrong, that's all.
Nothing offensive at all about it, really. Well, /maybe/ the "Full Monty"
shot.....
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Reverend Ozone
"Non illegitimi carborundum est"
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