Douglas Adams Saved Me Money

A few years ago, Hollywood finally got it together to make their version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- which I like to call "The Good Book" -- by Douglas Adams, a brilliant writer and thinker who was so steeped in irony that he dropped dead at the tender age of 49, after many arduous years of struggling to get the movie made by people who simply didn't get it, and just a bit shy of its production and release. Needless to say, he wasn't at the big press screening I attended in 2005 at Disney's El Capitan (right next to Jimmy Kimmel on Hollywood Boulevard) -- but Beck was there. Weirdly, I actually walked up to the balcony behind Beck, and he was wearing powder-blue sneakers. But I knowingly digress and name-drop to get your attention. Beyoncé.

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