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Monty Python's SPAMalot Wins 5, no 3 Tony Awards
acreman writes "Monty Python's SPAMalot, a musical lovingly ripped off from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, won 3 of the 14 Tony Awards it was nominated for. The 3 awards given out were for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical (Sara Ramirez), Best Direction of a Musical (Mike Nichols), and Best Musical. "
Why is this "IT" instead of regular news?
'ripped off'? Didn't most of the living cast support Spamalot? And last time I checked, Eric Idle,Dead Collector/Peasant 1/Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot/Roger the Shrubber, was the driving force behind it...Yeah I guess it was ripped off!
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
To all of you who haven't watched the movie recently enough to get the title, see if this rings a bell:
"And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shalt be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thou foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Amen.
Right! One... two... five!
Three, sir!
Three!
[boom]
PS: Don't sue me.
It was the best Broadway show I've been to...
David Hyde Pierce is the perfect Sir Robin, Hank Azaria is the perfect Lancelot, Sara Ramirez was a wonderful Lady of the Lake, and we all know John Cleese is pretty close to being God anyway. My main problem was Tim Curry as King Arthur. While he was excellent, he did seem a bit...old.
Overall, a fun night...it will be revisited, if I can get decent tickets again, which probably won't be the case for another year at least.http://kansieo.com
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2004580002-2005 260250,00.html
I just hope they get this kind of humor over there...
Dark Reflection
Here's a simple version of it: |||
The starred version of this is: ***
In English texts you'll see it as: three
In German texts you find it as: drei
In French texts, look out for: trois
In Italian texts you'll find: tre
As roman numeral, it's: III.
This is the decimal form: 3
In base 2, it's 11
However, computers will usually use 00000011
Or rather 0000000000000011
Actually, most systems today will use 00000000000000000000000000000011
And some even 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Unless it's text, then they'll probably use 00110011
Which often is expressed as '\063'
Or as '\x33'
Seen enough of it?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.