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TALKING PICTURES: BIG BANG

By | May 2005

David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This week, comedian Geoff Bolt rates the combustive impact of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy…”

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TALKING PICTURES: BIG BANG

“I rarely go to movies, because I don’t like the whole. . . I don’t really care for the . . . I don’t actually like theaters,” admits...

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