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The Life of Brian opens in, 571, 572, 573

Jewish reaction to The Life of Brian, 574

The Life of Brian’s success in, 574, 575, 576, 580, 582, 583, 588–9

The Life of Brian publicity, 576–7

Claudie Levinson’s visa problems, 600

Universal Pictures, 543

University College Hospital, London, 46, 205

University of East Anglia, 61

Unvarnished Truth (play), 521

Updike, John, 351n

Upstairs Downstairs (television series), 206, 217

V

Vancouver, ‘First Farewell Tour’, 124

Vandenburg Motel, Santa Maria, 125

Variety

Monty Python and the Holy Grail advertisement, 232

and The Life of Brian, 420, 487, 514–15, 517, 573, 574, 582, 583

and Jabberwocky, 533

MP writes for, 550, 551

Vavasseur, 411

Veeraswamy’s restaurant, London, 589

Veling, Ranji, xiii, 66, 366

Veling, Rolf, xiii, 66

Venice, 582n

Verdelais, 34

Vereen, Ron, 303

Vernon, Richard, 475, 476

Victoria, Queen, 546

Monty Python sketch, 1, 10, 75

Vidal, Gore, 56

Video Arts, 463, 523n

Vietnam war, 35–6, 69, 92, 229, 304

Villa Bianca, Hampstead, 211

Villiers, Jimmy, 292

Virgin Records, 213

Visconti, Luchino, 87

Vogue (magazine), nude photograph of

Pythons, 229, 232, 247

The Vole (magazine), 394 and n, 404

Von Furstenberg, Diana, 455 and n

W

Wainwright, Loudon III, 232

Wakefield prison, IRA hunger strikes, 289

Waldorf Hotel, London, 234–5, 600

Wale, Michael, 148 and n, 225

Wales, 199, 445

filming Jabberwocky in, 338–42

Walker, Alexander, 226, 425

Wall, Max, 323, 325–6, 329, 332–3, 335, 338, 340, 343, 371, 376

Wally ‘s, New York, 456, 457

Walmsley, Jane, 201 and n, 320

Walmsley, Nigel, 201 and n

Walters, John, 266

Walton-on-Thames, 34–5, 43, 241

Walton’s restaurant, London, 583

Wangford, Suffolk, 70

Waresley, Cambridgeshire, 385

Warhol, Andy, 232, 454, 455

Warner Books, 308–9

Warner Brothers, 452, 544

Charlie Bubbles, 101

backing for The Life of Brian, 420, 523–4, 554, 556–7

The Life of Brian publicity, 566, 573

The Life of Brian soundtrack album, 570

The Life of Brian opens in US, 572

success of The Life of Brian, 576, 580, 582, 588

and Pythons’ fourth film, 579, 583, 584

Warner Records, 394, 512, 558

Warner Rendezvous, 44

Warrick, Teddy, 390 and n, 391

Washington, US publicity tour, 220

Watergate affair, 120, 127, 142, 186, 187, 216, 336n, 438n

Watergate Complex, Washington, 220

Waterhouse, Keith, 239

Waterman, Ivan, 586

Watford, Gwen, 256, 259, 262

Watkins, Alan, 39

Watson, Caroline, 97, 409

Watson, Lyall, Supernature, 194

Watts, Charlie, 351

Waugh, Evelyn, 116, 131, 235, 555

Decline and Fall, 604

Vile Bodies, 493

Weapons of Happiness (play), 331

Wear, River, 383

A Wedding (film), 536

The Weekend (MP’s play), 553, 558, 581, 582, 583, 584, 594, 597, 601

Weekend TV awards, 21

Weekend World (television programme), 297

Weem, 171

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 424, 602

Weiland, John, 178

Welles, Orson, 440, 537

Wellington Hospital, London, 393

Wells, John, 40

Wembley Stadium, London, 390–1

Wences, Senor (ventriloquist), 452

Wenham, Brian, 559

Wenhaston, Suffolk, 181

Wesker, Arnold, 395 and n

Wesker, Dusty, 547 and n

West, Timothy, 467

West Granby, Connecticut, 250–1

West Indies

Palin family holiday in Tobago, 360

The Life of Brian rewrites in Barbados, 398, 402, 420–1, 428–35

West Kentish Town, 93

Westinghouse TV Studios, Philadelphia, 302

Westminster Abbey, London, 148–9

Westminster Bridge, filming fourth series of

Monty Python, 189

Westminster Hall, IRA bomb, 181

Weston, Bill, 340

Weston, Maggie, xiii, 114 and n, 190, 253, 329, 337–8, 340, 350

Weybourne, Norfolk, 7

Whack-O! (television series), 262 and n

Wheldon, Huw, 35

Where’s Poppa? (film), 68, 309

Wherry Inn, Geldeston, 233

Whetstone High Street, London, 43

Whinfrey, Mr (business manager of Punch), 442

‘Whinfrey’s Last Case’ see Ripping Yarns

Whirligig (television