Surely Garp's first story in The World According to Garp, "The Magic Glove," was inspired by Symbolist painter Max Klinger's series of engravings "Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove."
John Cleese and Terry Gilliam met while appearing in a West End production of the musical Half a Sixpence, starring Tommy Steele. It was in the same production that Cleese met his future wife Connie Booth. The book for Half a Sixpence was written by Beverley Cross, later married to Maggie Smith.
On the Bob Newhart Show, Howard Borden's brother Gordon Borden, the warden from Jordan, was played by William Redfield, the author of Letters from an Actor, an account of rehearsals for the role of Guildenstern in the 1964 Richard Burton/John Gielgud Hamlet.
If you look up Medea in Wikipedia, you get this helpful clarification: " For the 21st-century comedy film character created by Tyler Perry, see Madea ."
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