http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17285332
I'll be taking down and dusting off my copy of HHGttG this weekend in honour.
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The All New Jeni B
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberSadly I never met him. I have, however, sat on the private beach attached to his former home in Santa Barbara, watching the dolphins.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberHis brother used to have a shop opposite mine but now fixes computers. I often see him around town being self-important. Bit of a witless cock really. So different to how I imagine his brother to have been.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI spoke to a guy who had known him quite well in Santa Barbara.
He was apparently well liked in the community, but very much kept himself to himself.I make no secret of the fact that I think the guy was a genius, as it says in the article, it was the fact that he could twist the common-place and show the profundity of it.
Plus the way in which he came up with the idea of HH has always amused me.
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beau-jolly
offlineMemberFavorite lines?
Come along or you will be late
Late for what?
Late, as in the late Dent, Arthur Dent. It was a threat. I'm not very good at them but I am told they can be very effective.Posted 1 year ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberLoads, Slartibartfast's descriptions of his "lovely, frondy, fjords."
The cow at the Restaurant at the end of the universes's description of his tenderest bits...Actually, I'm off to start reading it all again.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI had such a crush on the character of Ford Prefect when I first saw the TV series as a kid.
Now, I just think he's a shallow sleaze.
Yes, wasn't he the only voice from the radio show to go on to do the TV series?Posted 1 year ago # -
beau-jolly
offlineMemberHowever the film sort of missed the mark. I watched it a bit and got increasingly pissed off as they changed the storyline.
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John Ffitch-Rucker
offlineMember"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Absolute genius.Posted 1 year ago # -
The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberJFF, I think that he may have had a point.
BJ, the film was rank. Went with my friend who was a fellow HHGttG obsessive, and we walked out part-way through. Douglas would have been turning in his grave.
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Nails UK
offlineMemberI'm a bit peeved about the Dirk Gently "adaptations" that BBC Four are doing - they seem to be cutting various bits out of the books and then bolting them together in a different way. Imagine doing that with Shakespeare...
I'm taken by Dirk's navigational theory about following something that looks as though it knows where it's going, and ultimately "ending up where he needs to be".
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberGenerally a cat, if memory serves.
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Quaz
offlineMemberOnce spotted DA in Islington, but was too in awe to approach him (I was sure he had had enough of that fan "we are not worthy" stuff). Best quote? Pretty much all of it, hard to pick. "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water." must be up there. "Brain the size of a planet" may be his most quoteable catch phrase. I too have been disapointed by what has been done with his stuff (H2G2 movie and Dirk), but then you have to think that he never treated his books as being set in stone. The books, radio, TV and play all change for the medium, and he was happy with that. He'd just adapt it to whatever the medium was and play with that. If anything, he basically invented the concept of Wikipedia and the iPad, melding it with the then emerging internet. All 10 to 30 years ahead. He was mately with Apple, so I don't think the iPad was a coincendce, all geeks from the 70s/80s wanted to build a HHG.
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMember"Oh no! Not Again."
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FlashArry
offlineMemberHaven't read too much of the Dirk Gently stuff, but liking the casting of Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd though. Weren't they both in Green Wing ?
I think Arthur, Ford, Zaphod and the Book all made the transition from radio to TV - I was always a little miffed that the original Trillian didn't.
{ still working on the perfect pan-galactic-gargle-blaster though }
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberI think it's interesting that nearly everyone here has a love of HHGttG.
Wonder what the probability drive would make of that...Posted 1 year ago # -
FlashArry
offlineMembersomething about an infinite number of Biscuits and the perfect FP they've cooked up ?
The nice thing is that the film - as awful as it was - has prompted our youngest flashette to go read the books - and so it rolls on. Inter-generational Adams quote-offs !
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medici2471
offlineMemberA friend at Uni was a big fan, he kept banging on about HHGttG, so much so that I refused to read a word of it...to this day. Until I was 42, and he emailed me a smile. Twat...
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMembermedici, I like his style...
'Arry, I passed on my copy of the full HHGttG including Mostly Harmless to the YM when he was 10. He's read most of the first book, found it really funny, then went off it. Occasionally, I'll find him in bed, fast asleep, face down in it, which I'm not sure is terribly complimentary.
He's the 3rd generation of the family to have the book passed on.Posted 1 year ago #
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