A Seventh Python?

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 9:54AM ET / Published Jul. 06, 2013 10:47AM ET

Craig Ruttle/AP

Holy hand grenade! There just may be a new Python in town. Mark Forstater, the producer of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has won a lawsuit giving him a share of the royalties to Monty Python's Spamalot, which is based on the film. His case included the claim of an agreement that for the purposes of merchandise and spinoffs related to the movie, he would be treated as a seventh Python. Seeing as how he's not an ex-Python and he's not dead yet, courts granted his request against claims by the other Pythons. Yeah, but can they tell us the air-speed velocity of a laden swallow?

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