'Parnassus' director Terry Gilliam fights to keep 'freak show' real
By Joe Williams | January 6Terry Gilliam is not someone you’d expect to see lounging poolside at a luxury hotel. For almost three decades as a director, and before that as the animator and token Yank in Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Gilliam has been decidedly non-Hollywood. Although occasionally his films employ big stars—Robin Williams in “The Fisher King,” Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt in “Twelve Monkeys“—Gilliam has famously struggled to interest the major studios in his fevered visions. He was J.K.