Terry Gilliam

How do, Clashers, I hope all is good in your hood. It's been quite a busy time since we last spoke. Hopefully someone quite close to me will have bagged a No. 1 album by the time you read this!  

Moviemaker TERRY GILLIAM has laughed off reports his former MONTY PYTHON pal MICHAEL PALIN has died, suggesting the news was a shock to the comedian/adventurer himself. The director blames idle Internet users for the "gossip-mongering nightmare", revealing news about the tragedy spread rapidly last week (ends30Oct09) - as Palin and the Pythons were celebrating their 40th anniversary. Gilliam is trying to make light of the saga, telling WENN, "It's true, his pet alligator just ate him; it was horrible!  

Earlier today I sat down with director Terry Gilliam to talk about his great new movie "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus".  

Terry Gilliam, director of "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," opens up to Moving Pictures at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival about co-writing with Charlie McKeown, creating a work of "pure imagination," working with Christopher Plummer, and the generous contributions of A-listers Jude Law, Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp to save Heath Ledger's final film.  

It is finally upon us – as I type the crowds are thronged outside the Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard for the American Film Institute Film Festival Opening Gala and North American Premiere of Wes Anderson's stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr Fox (already covered by Screencrave from the London Film Festival – ahead of the game as usual).  

Director Terry Gilliam was determined not to abandon Heath Ledger's last film , he tells Jane Cornwell "IT has been a magical, tragical journey," says Terry Gilliam, standing before a packed Sunday ...  

Monty Python's Flying Circus is indeed the Beatles of sketch comedy.