From: BEATLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: NOSEDIVE!      
Date & Time: 12/27/90 00:40:06
Message Number 10988

> They tend to use a lot of profanity, but in a very classy, comical 
> fashion...
 
  "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was their only PG rated film that I 
saw on the video racks. Plus, I don't think they hacked it up that bad. 
For one thing, Ch. 28 was working from an actual print of the film 
(usually a good sign in having a complete film, but not a good one for 
transfer quality) and for another thing, they kept running "mature
subject matter" warnings. I once saw "1941" on WGN from Chicago, and 
they "silenced" out a lot of "shit"s and left in a lot of "goddamns" 
(which I usually find are BIG taboos on the networks)... You can get 
away with a lot more at 1 AM.
 
  Speaking of this Monty Python stuff, I have a film I bet you haven't 
seen. Eric Idle did a film in the late '70's for NBC called "The Rutles"
in which he totally ripped apart the Beatles in a documentary form. It 
ran on TV, but somehow they snuck an "asshole" in there... It has Eric 
Idle, Michael Palin, Neil Innes (who was in "Holy Grail" I believe, and 
who writes some pretty weird songs) and a nice selection of the Saturday
Night Live original crew. I have loved this film ever since I first saw 
it, and I've got the soundtrack (which was just re-released a few months
ago) and I finally found a video tape of it, which was on sale at Tracks
where all the used videos were being sold for $9.95... Besides that, the
video is out of production. Let me know if you're interested in seeing 
it (or if you have!)