There’s a line in an old Monty Python skit that Mike Tollin — the Havertown native and longtime Hollywood mover-and-shaker — likes to drop to remind his staff how long some projects can take before they make it to the screen.
During the skit, one of the competitors in the “Upper Class Twit of the Year” runs himself over with a car during a race, leading the announcer to say, “He’s dead but not necessarily out of it.”