h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is a screwball comedy in which a businessman (played by Jeff Daniels) meets a young woman (Melanie Griffith) in a restaurant, and is talked into going with her. He soon finds himself handcuffed to a bed in a sleazy motel while she makes love to him. And that's for starters! She takes him from New York all the way down the East Coast to Tallahassie, until her convict husband runs into her unexpectedly. You can never guess what will happen next in this movie, and that is a rare quality. I love this film!

This was the first film that I saw Ray Liotta in; from the moment he appeared, he might as well have had "NUTTER" tattooed across his forehead. The fact that Daniels' character takes waht seems like forever to realise this, makes your palms sweat.

Good point!

All through this film, as Lulu kept changing identities, I kept wondering, "Who is this woman anyway?"

While I understand the point of view that she is an irritating screen presence, I really liked her in this movie. Almost enough to forgive her for "Shining Through" and "Bonfire of the Vanities"

I like her most of the time. Her ability to constantly change who she was added to the mysterious quality of this movie. I liked that.

Jeff Daniels was still a rising star at that point. He had not yet started taking roles in movies like "Dumb and Dumber" out of desperation. And I won't talk about "Arachnophobia."

Ooooh, "Arachnophobia". I once forced myself to watch that in an aversion therapy - kind of way. The wee spiders? They were scary. The big thing that looked like it had been made out of Meccano? Not so bloody scary. I like Jeff Daniels. It's just that his doppelganger, Bill Pullman, is a better actor.

Bill Pullman?



He and I went to the same college.

No shit?!!! I thought he was distinctly average until I saw him in "The Last Seduction" and, most memorably, "Zero Effect". I will forgive his President in "ID4" a thousand times for those performances.

I doubt that I ever actually met him. Michael Moore and Gregory MacDonald are about the only celebrities I ever met in person.

Michael Moore I have heard of; Gregory MacDonald? Who he? If he's a really famous writer, I will, of course, hang my head in shame...

Gregory MacDonald became a successful writer in the 1970s and 1980s with a series of books about a character named "Fletch." He later did a series about someone named "Flynn," but that series wasn't as successful. You can tell which books are about which character because the character's name is in the title.

His book "Fletch" was made into a movie starring Chevy Chase.

Before he became a successful writer, MacDonald taught Spanish and English in the high school I attended. He was my junior year English teacher. He was kind of offbeat and .

As I think about it, two more celebrities come to mind. In college I went to a recital given by William Warfield, who played Joe in the 1953 film version of "Showboat" starring Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson. I got his autograph. Later, I went to a live performance of "Camelot," in which Arthur Treacher played King Pellinore.

Aaaaah, THAT Gregory MacDonald. The only famous person I've properly met is the Right Hon. Tony Blair esq., ruler incumbent of this sceptred isle. Way back in the more innocent days of '97, I was a Labour party activist (of, admittedly, a very minor sort)doing my voluntary bit for the election campaign. T. Blair was visiting Stirling, so a bunch of younger activists, including myself, went up to - well - show our support. The "great man" shook my hand. I can't repeat what I would do to his hand now, were I to meet him again.
I lived in Edinburgh for two years; during the Festival in August, you find yourself not so much meeting as tripping over famous people. Peter Cook (God rest him)stood behind me in a queue at a newsagent's.

Ah, yes, Peter Cook, poor soul. I had grown rather fond of his performances (he was becoming a staple of American TV), and then he suddenly died. What a shock! For some reason, I always associate him with Dudley Moore.

i liked "the great escape" and "my fair lady"