Stumbled on the Bizarro-World Barrabas film starring Anthony Quinn. I'd forgotten it was based on the Par Lagerkvist novel. Not sure that I ever knew that the screenplay was by Christopher "The Lady's Not For Burning" Fry.
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.
I think it heartbreaking that Philip Seymour Hoffman and Mark Rylance never worked together. Matthew Warchus directed them both and certainly thought of them as artists with a deep kinship.
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