Saturday, May 08, 2004

THE LIFE OF BRIAN is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary by returning to the big screen:
'Passion' gives 'Life of Brian' something to celebrate
By ROGER MOORE
The Orlando Sentinel (but taken from the Houston Chronicle)

Monty Python's Life of Brian turns 25 this year.

Mel Gibson chose 2004 to release The Passion of the Christ.

Coincidence?

"Some might see it that way," Brian director Terry Jones says with a conspiratorial chuckle.

"Life of Brian," you say to yourself. "Wait a minute. Wasn't that the movie Gibson set out to spoof with his Passion? About a martyred prophet in ancient Judea, a real mama's boy unjustly crucified?"

BLASPHEMY!

Well, you could see it that way. Pythonists certainly do.

Life of Brian will return to theaters in all its hilarious, once-controversial glory.

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