Michael Palin's personal journal entries from the period when various edits of Brian were being test-screened consistently reference the Pythons ' and filmmakers ' concerns that the Otto scenes were slowing the story down and thus were top of the list to be chopped from the final cut of the film.

" According to Michael Palin's published diary, Palin changed his response in order to throw Cleese off.

* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure ( 1999 ): retracing the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway through the United States, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.

* Michael Palin's New Europe ( Travel 2006 / 07 ; Programme release 2007 ): in which he travels through Central and Eastern Europe.

* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure ( 1999 ) ISBN 0-297-82528-3

* Michael Palin's visit to Smara Refugee Camp

The main four actors have roles here that display similar dynamics to their roles in A Fish Called Wanda: John Cleese's character is the morally upright straight-man, Jamie Lee Curtis's character starts out morally grey but ends up romantically linked to John Cleese's character, Kevin Kline is the dense antagonist of the film's plot, and Michael Palin's character provides an active supporting role to the main events.

On September 30, 2007 the band appeared on Michael Palin's New Europe shown on BBC 1 in the UK.

He worked as an extra on Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns second series in 1979, appearing as a German spy, pretending to be a Cornish fisherman, in Whinfrey's Last Case.

Other launch day programmes included Michael Palin's documentary First Night on Meridian, the first Meridian News bulletins and the movie Best Defense.

It remains one of Michael Palin's favorite routines on the show, and he made it the centerpiece of his own choice of sketches for his Monty Python's Personal Best miniseries episode.

* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure: Harbor Springs, Michigan

Along with Terry Jones / Gilliam ' nude organist, Michael Palin's " It's " man, the Gumbys and Graham Chapman's Colonel, Mr Praline was one of the few deemed popular and useful enough for multiple appearances.

Basil Pao Ho-Yun is a Hong Kong-based photographer who is perhaps best known for his work as the stills photographer on the BBC filming teams that made Michael Palin's television travel programmes.

* Basil Pao's page on Michael Palin's web site

They were filmed by the British Broadcasting Corporation travelogue series Pole to Pole, which included actor Michael Palin's visit to the estate.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure is a 1999 BBC television documentary presented by Michael Palin.

The presenter is Michael Palin, this being the second of Palin's major journeys for the BBC.

Her last stage performance, opposite Peter O ' Toole, was as Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion in 1984, but she continued working on screen into her nineties, attracting enthusiastic notices for her portrayal of a frail old lady faced with eviction in Michael Palin's BBC play, No 27.

In the first episode of Michael Palin's Around The World In 80 Days, Michael visits the bank to inquire about the safeguarding and ease of replacing money whilst on his trip.

In her early 20s, she appeared in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Michael Palin's The Missionary and most famously as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited.

* Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure, Paris, Hadley ( PBS )

When Michael Morton adapted Roger Ackroyd for the stage, he removed the character of Caroline replacing her with a young girl.

* The character of Absalom appears in Michael Cook's The Head Guts and Sound Bone Dance

* Absalom is the name of a character in Michael Crummey's Newfoundland-set Galore.

He portrays Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, womanizing former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character.

The video game Emperor: Battle for Dune, whose in-game cut scenes are visually inspired by David Lynch's film, features a character named Baron Rakan Harkonnen, portrayed by Michael McShane.

Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

In the 2012 action film Premium Rush, the character of the corrupt cop Bobby Monday ( played by Michael Shannon ) repeatedly uses the alias " Forrest J.

Valli's character was an early yet incomplete example of the Hawkian woman archetype as the sexually aggressive showgirl, while O ' Brien's Michael portrayal of a shy man not interested in sex is a character later elaborated upon by Cary Grant and Gary Cooper in later Hawks films.

Michael Rosenbaum portrayed a young version of the character in the series Smallville.

Because of his self-described " amenable, conciliatory character " Michael Palin has been referred to as unofficially " Britain's Nicest Man.

Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release has been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believes this is the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

They wanted to pair Lee's character, the Michael Jordan-loving Mars Blackmon, and Jordan in a marketing campaign for the Air Jordan line.

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode " Moments of Transition " as a character named " Mr. Adams ," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Worf, played by Michael Dorn, is a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation and in seasons four to seven of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Several " tall, slim, black actors " auditioned for Worf before Michael Dorn came along, walking into the audition in character and not smiling ( Indeed, Michael Dorn found the seriousness of the role, especially during the audition, at first to be uncomfortable, since he considers himself a comedian at heart ).

While the recurring character of Michael Eddington ( played by Kenneth Marshall ) in Deep Space Nine was a member of the Maquis, Voyager contained three regular Maquis characters, Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), Seska ( Martha Hackett ) and B ' Elanna Torres ( Roxann Dawson ), as well as Tom Paris ( Robert Duncan McNeill ), a regular character that had been captured and imprisoned for joining the Maquis.

" Michael Horton appears as a bloodied and stoic Starfleet defender ; his character would be given the name of Daniels in the next Star Trek film.

He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

The result was Batman Returns which featured Michael Keaton returning as the Dark Knight, and a new triad of villains: Danny DeVito ( as the Penguin ), Michelle Pfeiffer ( as Catwoman ) and Christopher Walken as Max Shreck, an evil corporate tycoon and original character created for the film ( similar to Superman IIIs Ross Webster ).