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La Napoule, North Audley Street, 69
Nash, John, 471
Nash, Julia, 436–7
Nation, Terry, 441, 442
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, 289
National Book League, 473
National Coal Board (NCB), 385
National Farmers’ Union, 399
National Film Finance Corporation
(NFFC), 142 and n, 391 and n
National Film School, 283–4
National Film Theatre (NFT), 38, 415
National Front, 517
National Gallery, London, 155
National Lampoon, 249–50, 263
National Theatre, London, 331, 415
National Union of Railwaymen (NUR), 248–9, 524
National Viewers’ and Listeners’Association, 115n
Natural History Museum, London, 584
Navarro Hotel, New York, 222–4, 229, 231, 271, 272, 577
NBC TV
Burbank Studios, 126–7
and The Rutles, 367
comedy special, 465, 468, 474, 478
and Ripping Yarns, 482
MP invited to be guest host on Saturday Night Live, 436 and n, 453–4, 455–62
MP’s second appearance on Saturday Night Live, 528–31
MP’s third stint on Saturday Night Live, 551–3
Neal Street Restaurant, London, 331
Neal’s Yard, London, 296 and n, 314, 320, 364, 403–4, 516, 531, 532, 564
Nellie Dean (pub), 136, 227
Nesbit, Evelyn, 361
Neuschwanstein Castle, 87
Neville, John, 29
Neville, Richard, 62 and n
New College, Oxford, 318
New England, 250–1
New Haven, Connecticut, 527–8
New Musical Express, 155, 163–4, 176, 227
New Orleans, 76n, 458
New Statesman, 39, 415
New York
MP’s first trip to, 76n
difficulties in selling Monty Python to, 153
Monty Pythons success in, 194
US publicity tour, 215–19, 222–4
Monty Python and the Holy Grail in, 228–32, 239
Bert Fegg publicity tour, 249–50, 251–3
Monty Python stage show, 266–7, 280, 284, 301–14
Monty Python court case against ABC, 271–8
Jabberwocky opens in, 377, 378–9, 387
MP guest host on Saturday Night Live, 453–62, 551–3
The Life of Brian marketing trip, 558
Royal 10th Anniversary of Python celebration, 558
The Life of Brian opens in, 571, 573, 576–7
New York Experience, 306
New York Post, 271, 379, 571, 577
New York Sunday Times, 194
The New York Times, 13, 219, 230, 251, 312
Monty Python court case against ABC, 271
reviews Monty Python stage show, 306
reviews Jabberwocky, 378–9
MP writes for, 547, 550
and The Life of Brian 569, 571
The New Yorker, 223, 271, 304, 319, 601
Newman, Laraine, 457 and n, 462, 529
News of the World, 11
and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 176, 227
reviews Jabberwocky, 376
interviews MP, 586
Newsweek, 176
Nicholas, Paul, 390
Nicholl, Mark deVere, 582
Nicholson, Jack, 455n, 480, 497
Nicolson, Harold, 65, 438
Nilsson, Harry, 248 and n, 311, 556
1900 (film), 415
1941 (film), 530
Nixon, Richard, 96, 120, 142, 186, 187, 216, 295, 336 and n, 438n, 567
Noble, Peter, 371, 415
Noiret, Philippe, 151n
Nontas Greek restaurant, Camden Town, 443
Norden, Denis, 17–18 and n, 146, 262n, 282, 403
Norfolk Gardens Hotel, Bradford, 147
Norman, Barry, 337 and n, 415
Norman Conquests (play), 423
North Africa, filming The Life of Brian in Tunisia, 390, 393–4, 402, 445, 484–509, 510, 519
North Sea oil, 148, 192
Northern Ireland, 92
Bloody Sunday (1972), 68–9 and n, 70–1, 74
see also IRA
Norwich, 119, 241
Nottingham University, 69–70
Le nozze di Figaro (opera), 329
Nunn, Trevor, 541
O
O Lucky Man! (film), 102, 103–4, 425
Oak Village, London, 64, 76
Gospel Oak redevelopment, 14 and n, 92–3
burglary, 91–2
croissant delivery service, 350–1
Michael Foot gets lost in, 408
snowfall, 519
Residents’Association, 591–2
see also Gospel Oak
Oats, Skipton, 542
O’Brien, Denis, 510, 563, 566–8, 572
The Life of Brian budget, 462 and n, 464
The Life of Brian distribution problems, 543–4
Los Angeles marketing trip, 554, 556–7, 558
and the Pythons’ tax liability, 562–3
The Life of Brian publicity, 573
and Pythons’ fourth film, 575, 578–9, 584
and success of The Life of Brian, 576, 579