Just for a smile

Thursday's Toronto Globe & Mail reports that the producers of 1979's Life of Brian - "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy" - are re-releasing it in North America and Britain at the end of April and aiming directly as Mel Gibson's "equally contentious, but horribly grim," The Passion of the Christ.

The Python distributor, Rainbow Film Company, is promising that movie trailers will appear in cinemas on Good Friday, using tag lines such as "Mel or Monty" and "The Passion or the Python."

I can hear Mel now: "Bring 'em on."