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Show Ey | Dellysterais UFE & STYLE EDITOR | Elyssa Andrus - 344-2553 - eandrus@heraldextra.com Each membertakes his best shot on special PBSseries Ed Bark DALLAS MORNING NEWS Let's be parochial here. “Monty Python's Flying Circus,” whichfirst assaulted British sensibilities in 1969, made its American TV debut not in New York,not in Chicago,not in Los Angeles but in Dallas on KERA-TV.It was a very good year — 1974. Troupe member Eric Idle remembersit as well as can be expected. “It was extraordinary,” he says * during a recent session with TV critics. “I mean,for us it was just an antazement that people were watching it in Dallas ofall places and wereloving it. And thenit spread, you know,went around the PBS network.” eee nudge, wink, wink, jonty Python’is still being Heelthick. The rei Tony Award winner as ay’s best musical is Monty Python’s “Spamalot,” which opened last year. DVD collections also continue to proliferate, even thonehte five SHES, Pythons (Gr 1989) Havent worked aorca stageorfilm since 1983's “Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.” “We've discovered that the less wedo, the more money we make,” saysIdle, 62. The latest evidence of this is PBS’three-week presentation of “Me hon’s Best.” It premieres Wednesdaynight with an hour apiece from Idle and the Cleese and Terry Gilliam’s hours are on March 1, with Michael Palin and Terry Jones closing the deal on March 8. “There was definite pecking order.Cleese got first to go, right?” Idle asks. producer John Goldstone, who agrees. “And then I got in second... I don’t know howit hapSee PYTHON, B2 Neil Young gets personal Anintrospective album and emotionally revealing performance film allows singer to speak his min: Koltnow ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER Neil Young is freaked out, man. The iconic singer is so freaked out that he has to put on sunglasses to shield his eyes for fear of reveal- ing too m “You're scaring the hell ee of mewith these questions,” he saysin the Los Angeles studios of National Public Radio. Young sat down with the County Register after an hour answering considerably less-scary questions on a radio talk show. The scary question in question concerned itself with looking in the mirror. The exact question was: ‘Doyen tks wie yonoe in the mirror each The motivation py the question was simply to ask the singer to evaluate his career, and whether he was satisfied with the musical path he chose. Nothing deeper than KEVIN SULLIVAN /KRT Baby Elaina Marilee Seybold gets a kiss goodbyefrom heraunt, Erin Wilhelm, as mom,Jennifer Seybold, fellow aunt, Colleen Connelly, and grandmother LauriePursell, at left, look on, a few hours after being born at11:09 a.m.on Feb.9. Her husband, Joe, an Air Force reservist stationed overseas in Kuwait viewed the birth eventover a secure Web cam. ° ONLINE: DELIVERY With hospital’'s permission,reservist in Kuwait witnesses daughter’s birth via Web cam Greg Hard KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPER. AGUNAHILLS,Calif. — The baby was com- es wheeled her into a room at Saddleback easel ec Ceniey at Lge a: Calif., one Thursday morning. "fierhusbandwas ony From the privacy of his bedroom on a military base ae Joe Seybold logged onto a secured Web Hecould hear every sound in the hospital room. He oe eeeeye 180 degrees with a few keyATWOeaveagawhats hs fiat chuld Waa born: the Air Force reservist was inthn the devery room with his wife. He coached her for hours through a labor and a Caesarean «Joe Seybold was so proud of that day that he saved his hospital scrubs. Tuesday would be different. ae41-year-old aerospace engineer had missed Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and his son's birthday since beingdeployed ii n late August. He wasn't going to miss this. The hospital set up a Web cam in an. operating room, since Jennifer had a Cesarean section scheduled for the following day. "The baby couldn'twhit. And the baby didn't need a C-section. . “Harder! Harder! Now blow out!” a nurse told Jennifer, 30. “Come on, blow out, blow out. You can doit!” Dating backto at least August, hospitals in Ohio, West Vil and North Carolina haveused live Internet feeds to beam births to troops overseas, aoe10 published reports. nt Tuesday"'s one-wayfeed to the Middle East was ine for Saddleback Memorial, which paid for the cameraas trial project. “| think this is fantastic,’ nurse Susan Strother said. “Most women whose husbands are deployed videotape the births, but for him to experience this in real timeis, great.” See WEB CAM, BG that. But maybe because he's 60, maybe because he survived a poterally fatal brain aneurysm last See NEIL YOUNG, B2 ts WWW.HERALDEXTRA.COM — CALL 375-5103 TO SUBSCRIBE umH |