Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two) (99 page)

The eternal dream. By a pool, with a book, somewhere hot. Kenyan holiday, January 1983

‘I’ve got to have fruit!’ Tied to a tree with Shelley Duvall, as Vincent and Pansy in
Time Bandits
, 1981

Shooting the
Time Bandits
’ Giant on the roof of Wembley Studios. Among those looking bored, Maggie Gilliam and Julian Doyle on camera.

Pythons in Hollywood. MP, Terry J, Eric I, Graham C, Terry G and John C. Behind us, the Bowl. September 1980

On the set of
Time Bandits
, (from left to right) Neville C Thompson, Associate Producer, John Cleese (Robin Hood), George Harrison and Denis O’Brien, Executive Producers. Summer 1980

Monty Python Live at The Hollywood Bowl, September 1982

John rehearses his Silly Walk.

Dead Parrot sketch always went down well. Never more so than with the performers.

Disrobing after the judge’s summing up.

Fortescue and his women. Caught between fiancée Deborah Fitzbanks (Phoebe Nicholls, left) and Lady Ames, benefactress, (Maggie Smith, right)

Nepotism at work. Rachel Palin, (centre), on the set at Finsbury Circus, April 24 1982

‘No people, no sun-oil, no deck-chairs, no poolside bars selling over-priced drinks’. Bathing in the waterfall at Shava Lodge after the Kenya shoot, June 13 1982

‘As I wait for the clouds to clear the sun, I see our two Executive Producers emerging from the orchard’ Richard Loncraine, director, George H and Denis O’Brien on location, May 1 1982

John Kelleher of HandMade (centre) and myself, collect our most cherished, and only, award, from the French town of Chamrousse. ‘I check in the atlas. It does exist’ March 26 1985