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The Treatment

Eric Idle: 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography'

The Treatment

KCRW

Arts

4.6639 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Monty Python's Eric Idle advises to "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" in his sortabiography.

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0:00.0

From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

0:14.0

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I get to say that for the second time in my life, I'm speaking to Eric Idol.

0:20.5

The last time he's here was for that terrific show you may have heard life, I'm speaking to Eric Idol. The last time you're

0:21.4

served for that terrific show you may have heard of, Spam a Lot, the show that, as you mentioned

0:25.6

in this new book, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, came through the very last second

0:29.2

to win the Big Tony Award. Yes, absolutely. The best musical of the year in 2005.

0:36.1

And we're now working on the movie. This is going to be a movie?

0:40.3

This is going to interest you more because I know you're much more interested in movies and books and

0:44.0

things like that. I read a book once. That was enough. Yes, we're doing the movie. Congratulations.

0:51.0

Oh my gosh. But who's going to direct the movie? Casey Nicolaugh, who was the choreographer originally and also directed a book of Mormon, Aladdin, mean girls.

1:01.5

You know, he's a Broadway brilliant genius. And he's going to do a wonderful job.

1:07.5

Since we're hearing for this terrific book, I guess one of the things I thought about in reading

1:11.0

the book is your upbringing is not that dissimilar to the John Borman movie, Hope and Glory,

1:15.3

was it? You only refer to things through movies, don't you? I don't think I can remember that.

1:21.7

No, no. I had, do you remember if? Yes, Lindsay Anderson's if very much. Yeah, it was like that.

1:28.0

It was very,

1:28.8

but I think a lot of

1:29.8

English boys have that

1:31.1

from my generation.

1:32.9

You know,

1:33.2

there were all these

1:33.8

boarding schools and

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