In addition to being a Doper, I’m also a “noder” – one of the writers at Everything2. I also happen to be an editor, which is what this post is about. I suspect that this piece may have been plagiarized (which we frown on severely), but Google comes up blank. It’s entitled The Animations of Terry Gilliam, and is written in a style that clashes with the rest of what the author has posted.
If you’ve got books about Monty Python (The Pythons, Pocket Full of Python, etc.) at home, or happen to be an insufferable know-it-all regarding the fine British lads, I’d appreciate it if you’d take a look at the piece, and let me know if it rings a bell. If it is plagiarized from a printed source, then it should be a pretty simple job – I imagine it’s lifted wholesale from a chapter of the same name.
It doesn’t ring any bells here either, but by Yiminy that’s one seriously crap essay.
Reading it down, I would guess that any plagarized bits are likely to be from the Gilliam book referenced (Animations of Mortality), with which I am unfamiliar.
It rings a bell here. Try videos, the one with Steve Martin doing the introductions? I think maybe that’s the one. Titled I think “The Life of Python”. The person has posted a transcript from an anniversary (been so long since I’ve seen it grumble) collection as his own work. The movie is a kind of video biography. Good Luck.
Thinking about it, he’s probably ripped parts (like the bit about the foot) from the video I mentioned, and parts from a book, adding in the links to “make it his own”.