Of the many things Western culture has lost of late—the dominance of print media, quality middlebrow cinema—one will not be lamented: big public debates over the possibly blasphemous nature of some ...

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What happens when a renowned comedy group’s most controversial work is left stranded days before filming begins? For Monty Python, 1978 was shaping up to be a complete disaster due to the withdrawal ...