Post removed... hey, there's a first time for everything!

[Gary]

I was requested to remove this post.  Whoops!

I was talking to a close aquaintance who's a studio rep, and when I told her I posted something I was privy to see today, she asked that I remove the post before it got listed on the search engines, or someone else scooped it and started posting the news on other sites.

Never thought that would have happened in a million years.

(I couldn't actually remove the thread, so I posted this instead.)

She f***in' freaked out.  "OH MY GOD!  SERIOUSLY... QUICKLY GET THOSE OFF OF THERE AND CALL ME BACK... OK?"

"Ok... I'll do it right now.  Wow, sorry!"

"SERIOUSLY.  QUICKLY, thanks. ... bye."  -click-

Yikes.

[GuzziHeroV50]

You gotta tell us what it was, once it comes public.

Didnt you sign the National Secrets Act? 

[Gary]

I do sign timed non-disclosures in most cases, but not for a certain "sneak-ins" or imformation that may be passed along through the grapevine.

It had to do with the whole confusing Zaphod Beeblerox two-headed debate and how they've decided to hande it in the movie.

BTW, I get to sneak a peak at Hitchhikker's Guide To The Galaxy by the end of next week - so the verdict will most deinfitely be in.  I'm getting really nervous and hope they keep it filled with enough "Adams-ness" to please me.

I will literally launch a hostile attack if it turns out to be crap.

I have very high hopes for this one - as the bar has definitely been set by the books.

[electric_ian]

Gary if you did not want something to be seen by all and sundry  you could post  it in R&R as that is members only.
Ian

[lurker]

R&R is members only?  That would make sense, but I didn't realize 

I was thinking you could post in Clouds, that's definitely a secure spot...

 - lurker

[Hvns]

Yea the clouds Gary  The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, wow that brings back another time!

[itchycoo]

I remember playing the text based adventure computer game, could never get past Marvin and would stroll the ship endlessly....took me ages to get pastthe bulldozer that Arthur Dent lies in front to stop bulldozing his house - anyone else remember playing it?

[Gary]

It's the first place I found out what a "buffered analagesic" was.

Aspirin.

[Gary]

Well, I'll be heading off to Cali red-eye, and I'll be back by tommorrow night with an update on the HHGTG test screening.

[lurker]

Have fun, Gary!  And report back with any other industry news you happen to stumble upon 

Just don't post anything confidential

 - lurker

[Gary]

Once I get there and I attend the screening, I'm going to be so damned wrecked it's ridiculous.  I've been going since 9am, and we have to get ready and leave to catch the flight, and about a gallon of coffee beforehand, around 3:30am.

There's a stop over in Texas, and then we'll get in at LAX around 11:00am.  1pm - screening, 3:30pm - press junket, and straight back to the airport for a 5:30pm departure.

By that time I will have been up and on the go for approx. 36 hours straight.  Not too bad, but it sucks because I know that there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to sleep on the plane - so then account for another 5 hours of travel with approx. the same stopover time as the in-flight.  Travel time home.

Now... who was it that mentioned that I should let them know the next time I'm in town...?  Hmmm... I wonder who that could have been.  ;P

But, my friends, this is how you build a media-oriented business. 

I'll rest when i'm dead. (Which should be in approx. 26-28 hours.)

[lurker]

Now... who was it that mentioned that I should let them know the next time I'm in town...?  Hmmm... I wonder who that could have been.  ;P

 

 

 - lurker

[Gary]

Actually, you can always meet me at the gate and snap a picture of me running from one plane, to the phones, to the concession area, back to the phones, and then on to the next plane.

It'll be like a Yeti sighting.   

[lurker]

You'll be in bebx's town shortly!

Actually my friend Rob should be out there by now, he drove (DROVE) from NH to Burbank, CA starting this past Thursday AM.

 - lurker

[lurker]

Actually, you can always meet me at the gate and snap a picture of me running from one plane, to the phones, to the concession area, back to the phones, and then on to the next plane.

It'll be like a Yeti sighting.   

Gary, you look like a Yeti?  White hair and bigfoot-esque physique?

  - lurker

[Gary]

Nope, but the picture will be a blurred, in-motion, and indistinguishable.

If I carry tie two elderly people and a dirty hippie to my back, we may be able to pull it off. 

National Enquirer, here we come!

[lurker]

hmm, alright, I'll use slow film and set it the lense out of focus...  We can use Ian as one, but we need another elderly person, and I can't supply the hippie so you're on your own there.  Can we use Rock?  Is he hippie-esque?

 - lurker

[electric_ian]

You can use Peter as an old person as he is older than me Gobe could be the hippy??
Ian

[Gobe]

 

[lurker]

Hey Gary, I think I found a way you can make some money on the side - collect used stuff from celebs (like chewing gum) and auction it on eBay!

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-03-celeb-auctions-side_x.htm

Best comment from that article - "Last May, someone on eBay claimed to have picked up a half-consumed cough drop pitched in a trash can by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The seller touted it as "Schwarzenegger's DNA." It didn't sell ” but only because eBay nixed the auction as a violation of its "no body parts" rule."   (You can't make this stuff up...)

And this article is good too:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-02-03-celeb-auctions_x.htm

Best line in that one is the very end - " 'Oh, and Vin Diesel is huge ” if he wore it, (customers) want it. We have his long underwear, but we won't sell it. It's weird. It's kind of immoral.' "

  - lurker