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Titolo: [HHGG] Planet Magrathea is now closed

Uno dei siti principali della "galassia" di fan del lavoro di Douglas Adams
e' chiuso.
Il curatore, dopo aver fortemente criticato la trasposizione cinematografica
si e' sentito un po troppo... sottotiro.
Utile lettura.
http://www.planetmagrathea.com/index2.html
A.
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http://www.planetmagrathea.com/index2.html
Planet Magrathea is now closed
I have been writing about Douglas Adams and Hitchhiker's Guide almost
without pause for various books and magazines since Douglas died in May
2001. I am thoroughly bored with the subject and have said all there is
to say. I am a professional writer and journalist but it has reached the
point where I am rarely asked to write about anything else.
In late 2004 I resolved to stop writing about Hitchhiker's Guide after
6th May 2005, which was at that time the projected release date for the
film. I have told plenty of people about this decision over the past few
months. I had intended to keep Planet Magrathea going beyond then
because I know that a lot of people find it a useful site and it just
about pays for itself through Amazon and Google links.
As of today I have decided to just say 'sod it' and pack the whole thing
in. This is partly because I have recently been adding ten or more news
items every day and it is becoming too much hassle. It is also partly
because I have for some time been fed up with the negative attitude of
the Douglas Adams estate who for four years have been happy to make
money from projects that I have worked on or even initiated but have
otherwise been thoroughly unhelpful and antagonistic towards me. Let
them keep reissuing the books every few months (five new editions in
four years - you do the maths). I hope it makes them happy.
Now I have a similar antagonism from Disney/BVI who, it seems, are
unable to accept negative criticism of their product. And my views on
the quality of the product they have created do not need repeating here.
But the thing that has tipped the balance for me is the unwarranted,
ill-informed personal abuse and libel which has been directed towards me
on the IMDB, livejournal and many other websites in the wake of my
review of the film. Although those people who took the trouble to read
my long review were, in the most part, extremely complimentary about my
analysis and as dismayed as I am about the route that the film has
taken, they have unfortunately been drowned out on many discussion
boards and forums by people who refuse to accept even the possibility
that something connected with Hitchhiker's Guide may not be perfect.
I have been widely criticised for wanting the film to exactly replicate
the book, even though I never suggested any such thing, and I have been
quoted as saying other things that I have never said. I have read that I
know nothing about Hitchhiker's Guide and that I don't have any
understanding of how books get adapted into films. I have read that I
went into the screening determined to dislike the film, that I made
copious notes during the screening of every minor deviation from the
book, and even that I have done nothing but criticise this film all
along. None of these are even slightly true and some of them, under
other circumstances, would be actionable. If I can read these things,
other people can read them too.
I could put up with the pathetic, jealous ramblings of those sad types
who feel the need to criticise something they haven't read, describing
something they haven't seen. But what has broken my will is the
vitriolic personal abuse and libel which has started spreading across
the net from various individuals who don't know me. (A more paranoid
person than myself might think that some of these, the ones who have
joined discussion boards in the past week and since then posted on no
other subject than myself, were studio plants. But not I.) In
particular, I am fed up with the no-lifes who constantly post abusive
messages on this site's guestbook and then post more abusive messages
complaining that the previous ones have been deleted. It is these people
in particular who are responsible for the removal from the web of this
unique resource. Nobody else in the world has the network of
Adams-related contacts that I have, or sufficient knowledge of his life
and work to be able to put any piece of news into context, which is why
there is no other site providing a service anything like this, and from
now on there won't even be this. These people can be found on the IMDB
board crowing about their work - please direct any complaints to them.
I would like to thank everyone who has been so supportive over the past
year or two, everyone who has responded pleasantly to my reviewing of
the film - whether or not we ultimately agree with each other - and
everyone who has submitted news items and links to this site. My
collection of Hitchhiker's Guide material and interviews will be offered
to the SF Foundation and anything they don't want will be otherwise
disposed of.
I will remain a member of ZZ9 and some of my unseen, archive interviews
will continue to be published in the club magazine - but someone else
will have to edit them. I may occasionally lurk on Hitchhiker's
Guide-related sites or forums if I'm bored, but as of now I will never
write another word, in print or on-line, about Douglas Adams or The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
MJ Simpson
Leicester, 17th April 2005
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Cantando sotto la pioggia(DVD)/Crimen ferpecto/Stalag 17(DVD)
Election(DVD)/La febbre - 
http://www.albertofarina.tk

Bah. Il leader di un gruppo potra' anche abbandonare perche' tutti fanno
"Buuuuh!" (hint hint...) Ma chi esprime indipendentemente le proprie
opinioni in un luogo a cui tutti accedono gratuitamente dovrebbe tutt'al
piu' divertirsi di piu' a farlo se arrivano gli insulti, non spiraleggiare
verso l'abbandono. La liberta' di opinione deve aiutare la democrazia, non
praticarla.