Flying Circus on 57th at Premiere of Monty Python Doc

“New York hates Monty Python—I mean, look at the weather!” said film director and famed animator Terry Gilliam, shivering cheerfully on the red carpet at the premiere of the documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (the Lawyer’s Cut) at the Ziegfeld on Thursday, Oct. 15, as a cold rain beat down.

His Read More

Say Ni! John Cleese Closes on $1.4 M. Upper East Side Co-Op

It isn’t often these days that a deity like John Cleese buys a New York apartment for under $1.5 million.

After all, it’s been a decadent month: The hotelier Robert Burns sold his Fifth Avenue co-op for $29 million; the Chinese television personality Yue-Sai Kan sold her Sutton Square townhouse for $22.25 million; the Read More

Deep Sh*t

With the revelation days earlier that there wasn’t even a cat in the bag in the first place, The Week magazine’s much-touted “Deep Throat Revealed” panel discussion turned out to be the nonevent that many skeptics predicted it would be.

John Dean, the former counsel to President Richard Nixon whose recently published e-book, Unmasking Deep Read More