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HitchHiker's Documentary Scheduled for May 11 Release

Posted by chrisd on from the my-towel-has-no-bbq-flavored-corner dept.

Trazk writes: "Taken from the DA News Website: One year to the date of his death, Douglas Adams, renowned author of the best-selling cult classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will be remembered in an 80-minute documentary film entitled Life, The Universe, and Douglas Adams. The production, by Joel Greengrass and Rick Mueller, will be available May 11 on VHS. The press release can be found at the Douglas Adams' Website"

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  1. Seen in Person by pryan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I attended a talk given by Douglas at the University of Washington a few years before he passed away. It was amusing, but for someone who is not familiar with him or his work, he would have appeared somewhat run of the mill.

    That was the remarkable thing. It reminded me that many of us, free to imagine, invent, and run amok can create things to amuse and amaze. Most of us appear unremarkable, but we don't have to be. We only have to let ourselves escape the adulthood we have been trained to achieve and have fun with life.

    I will forever remember Douglas Adams as a person who inspired me to be free and fun.

  2. Douglas Adams Interview by blueminder · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody else remember a TechTV's "Big Thinkers" where they interviewed Adams just a few days before his death? I found it to be a good memory of him after watching that one. Douglas' books are fun and hilarious, I've read the first 2 hitchhiker's books so far and I want to read Last Chance To See by him as well, I heard good things about it.