Pop culture roundup: Doctor Who! Monty Python! The Prisoner! Bowie! more!

Radio Times shares an original 1963 blueprint for the control room of Doctor Who's TARDIS.





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Michael Palin and Terry Jones recall the making of "Monty Python's Meaning of Life."
"The vomit was compressed soup, actually. We had canisters of it with lumps in – and a catapult to fling it. Everybody wanted some chucked at them. Although it became a food fight, we could only throw it at those extras who had not-so-decent costumes on."


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A great find via Dangerous Minds: A 1970s educational guide prepared for use with "The Prisoner" sci-fi series and an interview with series creator/star Patrick McGoohan.



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See David Bowie's 100 must-read books.  Here's the top 10:

 The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby (2008)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz (2007)
The Coast of Utopia (trilogy), Tom Stoppard (2007)
Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945, Jon Savage (2007)
Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (2002)
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, Christopher Hitchens (2001)
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Lawrence Weschler (1997)
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1890-1924, Orlando Figes (1997)
The Insult, Rupert Thomson (1996)
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (1995)

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