Книга: Graham Chapman «Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays&Gondola»
Серия: "-" Graham Chapman is said to have been Monty Python's one true anarchist. Like his mentors Spike Milligan and Peter Cook, the man who portrayed the mistaken messiah in Life of Brian lived his life on and off stage with a sheer delight in madness for its own sake.'I want to be a loony', he said,'it's quite an important thing'. Calcium Made Interesting contains everything from Graham Chapman's unpublished sketches and transcripts of his lecture tours to letters to his bank manager and reflections on his fellow Pythons and as a result offers a unique insight into the real Graham Chapman. Previously unpublished essays and notes help chart the life and times of a comic legend and include such gems as his reflections on how it feels to be crucified and his nostalgic memories of blowing up hotel rooms with his good friend Keith Moon. Funny and surreal, this collection captures the eclectic spirit of a true genius and confirms Graham Chapman's lasting impact on British comedy. Издательство: "Macmillan Publishers" (2006)
ISBN: 978-0-330-43543-7 |
Graham Chapman
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Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was an English
Early career (up to 1969)
Education
Chapman was educated at Melton Mowbray Grammar School and studied medicine at
While at Cambridge, Chapman joined
Early perforamnces
Cleese and Chapman wrote professionally for the
"Monty Python's Flying Circus"
". These were largely straight roles, but in the "Flying Circus", he had tended to specialise in characters closer to his own personality: outwardly calm, authoritative figures barely concealing a manic unpredictability.
In David Morgan's 1999 book "
Post-"Python" career
In the late 1970s, Chapman moved to
Chapman's last project was to have been a TV series called "
In the years since Chapman's death, despite the existence of the "Graham Chapman Archive", only a few of his projects have actually been released. One such that has, is a play entitled "O Happy Day", brought to life in 2000 by
Personal life
In many ways, Chapman was the epitome of public-school respectability, a tall (6'2"), craggy pipe-smoker who enjoyed mountaineering and playing rugby. At the same time, he was proudly
Chapman was an
Chapman kept his
Chapman was a vocal spokesman for gay rights, and in 1972 he lent his support to the fledgling newspaper "
Among Chapman's closest friends were
During his 'drinking days', Chapman jokingly referred to himself as the British actress
Death
Chapman died of a rare
Funeral
A
accessdate = 2008-03-13] [cite video | url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHk9WC7fnQ | title=Graham Chapman's funeral | medium=Video | format=.SWF | year=1989 | people=John Cleese, Eric Idle | location=London, England | publisher=YouTube | accessdate= 2007-01-20 ( [http://www.geocities.com/fang_club/chapman_memorial.html transcript] )] He explained that Chapman would have been offended had Cleese, the first person to say "shit" on British television, not used Chapman's own funeral as an opportunity to also become the first person at a British memorial service to use the word "fuck". Afterward, Cleese joined Gilliam, Jones, and Palin along with Chapman's other friends as Idle led them in a rendition of "
On 31 December 1999 Chapman's ashes were rumoured to have been "blasted into the skies in a rocket", [cite news | url=http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/590559.stm | title=Python star Chapman's flying ashes | work=BBC News | date=4 January 2000 | accessdate=2007-07-01] [cite news | url=http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/tv/chapman_in_space_000103.html | title=Monty Python Member's Ashes Missing; Rocket Blamed | work=Space.com | date=3 January 2000 | accessdate=2007-07-01] though actually, Sherlock scattered Chapman's ashes on
Legacy
The remaining Python members have acknowledged that Chapman was difficult to work with. After his death, speculation of a Python revival inevitably faded, with Idle saying, "we would only do a reunion if Chapman came back from the dead. So we're negotiating with his agent". Subsequent gatherings of the Pythons have actually been accompanied by an urn, said to contain Chapman's ashes. At the 1998 Aspen Comedy Arts festival, the urn was 'accidentally' knocked over by
Asteroid
In 1997, David Sherlock allowed Jim Yoakum to start the "Graham Chapman Archives". Later that year, the novel "" was released. It is a semi-sequel to "A Liar's Autobiography", with Chapman works compiled by Yoakum. A collection of unpublished material has been released in 1999, "Ojril: The Completely Incomplete Graham Chapman", containing scripts Graham wrote with Douglas Adams and others, such as "Our show for Ringo Starr, a.k.a. Goodnight Vienna". And in 2005 "Calcium Made Interesting: Sketches, Letters, Essays & Gondolas" was published. At one time, the script for "Out of the trees", written by Chapman and Adams in 1975 (and later extensively rewritten by Chapman with Bernard McKenna), was online, but Jim Yoakum had it removed, to the disappointment of the fans of Monty Python and also of co-writer Douglas Adams, who had made no objections to it being there. The debate that followed did nothing promote the legacy of Graham Chapman, and cast some doubt about the erratic way in which Jim Yoakum, who had only known Graham Chapman superficially, was handling his literary estate. Jim did however start his own website, called the Graham Chapman Archives, demanding people to turn in any rare recordings featuring Graham Chapman they might have, but the site never offered any real biographical information or other materials, and it has since disappeared from the web.
Graham Chapman's college tours in the 1980s had been recorded and these were released over the years by Yoakum. The CD "A Liar Live" was delayed several times, but was released as "A Six Pack of Lies" in 1997. Other, almost identical, college tours also came out on CD, such as "Spot the Loony" in 2001. A DVD of the tours ("
In 2004 there was talk of a movie about the life of Graham Chapman, to be called "Gin and Tonic", by Hippofilms in cooperation with Jim Yoakum. Auditions were held in march 2004 in California, [http://www.dailyllama.com/news/2004/llama227.html] but since then the project died silently, it isn't clear when exactly it has been officially abandoned. Its website is no longer online and the IMDB page has been deleted; the website for the Graham Chapman Archive has disappeared as well.
References
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External links
*Graham Chapman at [http://pythonline.com/meet/chapman PythOnline Pythons Page]
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*Graham Chapman at [http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/c/chapman_graham.shtml the BBC Comedy Guide]
*Graham Chapman at [http://www.comedy-zone.net/standup/comedian/c/chapman-graham.htm the Comedy Zone]
*Graham Chapman at [http://www.fyne.co.uk/index.php?item=461 Gay Greats]
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