Actor, writer, and Monthy Python member JOHN CLEESE. Post-Python, CLEESE is best known for "Fawlty Towers," and a number of movies, including his 1988 comedy, "A Fish Called Wanda." He's also written a book called "Families and How to Survive Them" with therapist Robyn Skinner. He co-wrote and stars in the new film "Fierce Creatures" which teams up the same cast from "Wanda." (REBROADCAST FROM 6/22/90)Comic GRAHMAN CHAPMAN. He was the straight man in the Monty Python troupe who would come in and break up the skits. A physician by training, he was a writer and activist for gay rights. He died in 1989. (REBROADCAST FROM 7/2/87)Film critic JOHN POWERS reviews Woody Allen's new MUSICAL, "Everyone Says I Love You."12:58:30 NEXT SHOW PROMO (:29) PROMO COPY On the next archive edition of Fresh Air. . .interviews with John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and the Graham Chapman. . . four of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Next week the film "Fierce Creatures" opens, which was co-written by John Cleese, and stars Cleese, Palin, Kevin Kline and Jamie Lee Curtis. . . the same team that made "A Fish Called Wanda." . . . And film critic JOHN POWERS reviews Woody's Allen's new musical, "Everyone says I Love You." That and more coming up on today's Fresh Air.
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