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Hvem Er Douglas Adams Kopi fra DBC Webarkiv Kopi af: Kenneth Bernholm : Hvem er Douglas Adams Dette materiale er lagret i henhold til aftale mellem DBC og udgiveren. www.dbc.dk e-mail: [email protected] Hvem er Douglas Adams Kenneth Bernholm Published: 2005 Tag(s): biografi 1 Forfatter: Kenneth Bernholm (http://kennethbernholm.dk) Licens: Creative Commons Navngivelse-Ikke-kommerciel-Ingen bearbe- jdelser 2.5 Danmark License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/2.5/dk/) ISBN: 978-87-91845-14-7 2 Chapter 1 Historien om Douglas Adams er i høj grad historien om hans forfatter- skab. Skæbnen, hvis man tror på den slags, ville nemlig, at Douglas Adams var på rette tid og sted med den rette historie. Tiden var 1978, stedet var den britiske radio BBC og historien var The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Før denne tid havde Douglas uden synderlig succes kæmpet for at ernære sig som forfatter, men efter hans humoristiske science-fiction radiohørespil blev sendt på BBC, blev han et kultikon og hans bøger bestsellere. Man kan dårligt fortælle om personen og for- fatteren Douglas Adams uden samtidig at fortælle historien om Hånd- bog for vakse Galakse-Blaffere, som bogen kom til at hedde på dansk. Den skæbne, der tildelte ham livets store success, formåede desværre også at tage sig godt betalt. Douglas Adams døde den 11. maj 2001 i et fitnesscenter i Californien, hvor et hjerteanfald slukkede hans livslys. Han var næsten to meter høj, men blev kun 49 år gammel og efterlod sig ikke kun et populært forfatterskab og en kone og datter, men også en ab- surd verden, der altid blev en hel del klarere, når den blev betragtet og kommenteret af Douglas. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy nåede i en periode på mere end tyve år at blive fortalt som radiohørespil, roman, tegneserie, teaterstykke, tv-film og computerspil, men Douglas' store drøm om at se den indspillet som rigtig Hollywoodfilm gik aldrig i opfyldelse. Adskil- lige manuskripter blev skrevet – et af dem af Douglas selv, og flere store Hollywoodnavne blev gennem tiderne associeret med Hitch Hiker's-fil- men, men projektet blev ved med at falde af skinnerne. Omkring årtusindeskiftet så det dog endelig ud til, at de rette folk med de rette midler var parate til at gennemføre filmatiseringen, så Douglas flyttede familien til Californien, hvor han indtil sin død arbejdede på fil- men. Han vil aldrig komme til at se sin fantastiske historie udspille sig på det store biograflærred, men alle hans fans kan glæde sig, for filmudgaven af The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy får præmiere i sommeren 2005. 3 Chapter 2 Interessen for videnskab og evolution påvirkede alt, hvad Douglas Adams foretog sig. En af hans yndlingsanekdoter handler om, hvordan han var DNA før DNA blev opdaget. Douglas Noël Adams blev født den den 11. marts 1952, men først året efter i 1953, stadig i Cambridge, præsenterede forskerne James Watson og Francis Crick verden for deoxyribonukleinsyre – også kendt som DNA. Douglas var kun seks måneder gammel, da hans forældre flyttede fra Cambridge. Hans mor, Janet Donovan, var sygeplejerske, mens han far, Christopher Douglas Adams, der kom fra en familie med stor tradition for lægevidenskab, havde en mere omskiftelig karriere i forskellige fag. Christopher var en mand, som aldrig fandt sig helt til rette i tilværelsen. Han var uhyre glad for de ting i livet, som penge kunne købe, men han nåede aldrig at skabe sin egen formue. Da Douglas var fem, blev forældrene skilt og Christopher giftede sig med en velstående kvinde, der kunne financiere hans smag for livets glæder. Janet flyttede ind hos sine forældre med Douglas og hans lillesøster Susan i deres gamle, mørke hus i Dorset, som iøvrigt var fyldt med dyr. Janets far var syg og lå i sengen, og hendes mor arbejdede for The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). Der var altid skrantende katte, en halt hund eller en syg due, der boede sammen med familien, og det påvirkede Douglas, der både led af høfeber og astma. At han heller ikke talte før han var fire og iøvrigt var en temmelig indad- vendt, venstrehåndet og anderledes dreng spåede ham en besværlig barndom og muligvis forhindringer i sit voksne liv. Men hans 12 år i skolen i Brentwood formede og prægede ham. Brentwood er en privat skole efter den klassiske, britiske opskrift med strenge lærere, rugby samt masser af klubber og skoleuniformer. Mange Brentwood-elever har udmærket sig i livet – deriblandt udenrigsminister Jack Straw og forfatteren og skuespilleren Griff Rhys Jones kendt fra blandt andet Not The Nine O’clock News. 4 Der er især to begivenheder, som Douglas mindes fra årene på Brent- wood. Den ene var topkarakteren, som viceinspektøren gav ham for en historie, han havde skrevet. Som voksen led Douglas af frygtelige skriveblokeringer, og han var ofte overbevist om, at han simpelthen ikke kunne skrive et eneste ord mere. Hans fjerde bog, So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, blev skrevet i sidste øjeblik under stærkt pres fra forla- get Pan. De låste Douglas inde i et hotelværelse sammen med redaktøren Sonny Metha som overvågede, at han rent faktisk fik ord ned på papiret. Men i knap så dramatiske perioder af skriveblokering kunne Douglas hjælpe sig selv ved at tænke på, at han en gang som den eneste fik top- karakter for en historie på Brentwood. Den anden begivenhed er historien om bukserne. På Brentwood var det nemlig således, at man gik i korte bukser i underskolen og lange bukser i mellem- og overskolen. Douglas formidable højde indfandt sig allerede i en tidlig alder, og som tolvårig kunne han dårlig vente på at komme ud af underskolen og de korte bukser. Men da hans mor i ferien tog ham med for at købe de rigtige bukser til skoleuniformen, viste det sig, at de slet ikke blev lavet lange nok til Douglas. Douglas var forfærdet, for regnestykket var simpelt. Det ville tage seks uger at få lavet nye bukser, der var lange nok, men Douglas havde kun to ugers ferie inden første semester i mellemskolen startede. Seks minus to er fire, så i fire lange uger var Douglas ikke kun den højeste elev i skolen, men også den eneste der stadig gik i korte bukser. Ydmygelsen var total. Det var også i de tidlige teenageår, at Douglas blev dybt og inderligt forelsket i musik. Især Beatles og senere Bach spillede en stor rolle for ham, og han pjækkede fra skole for at snige sig til byen og købe Can’t Buy Me Love-singlen. Senere nåede han selv at blive en habil guitarist og ejede adskillige venstrehånds-guitarer, og han kom endda til at spille med Pink Floyd. Men hvis Douglas havde en ide om at blive musiker, så blev den overskygget af hans ambitioner om at skrive og optræde. Nogle af hans tidligste skriverier var bidrag til skolebladene Broadsheet og Green Wood, og han optrådte også i skoleteatret. Motivationen til at tage en klassisk uddannelse blev konstant truet af forskellige kunsteriske in- teresser, og i særdeleshed en mand var ansvarlig for at sende den unge Douglas ud på sin livsbane. Douglas så en aften John Cleese på tv og var straks smittet. Det var før Cleese var med til at starte Monty Python, som Douglas også blev stor fan af, men Douglas så i John Cleese alt det, han selv ville være. 5 Desværre var jobbet som John Cleese allerede optaget, så Douglas måtte skabe sin egen vej, men han havde fundet et fyrtårn at pejle efter. En mand der var lige så høj som ham selv. 6 Chapter 3 Cambridge er en smuk by med blændende arkitektur. Det er en højborg for klassiske traditioner og centrum for en mængde højt respekterede uddannelsesinstitutioner. En Cambridge-uddannelse er et strålende fun- dament for en fremtidig karriere og samtidig også indgangen til et ek- sklusivt netværk af bekendtskaber, der kan hjælpe en på vej i livet. Douglas Adams valgte at studere i Cambridge, fordi han ville optræde i Footlights-revyen. Både John Cleese, Graham Chapman og flere andre medlemmer af Monty Python havde været med i Footlights, ligesom Griff Rhys Jones fra Brentwood havde optrådt der, så for Douglas var Footlights uimod- ståeligt tiltrækkende for hans ambitioner om at skrive og optræde. De- suden kunne han samtidig studere engelsk litteratur. St. Johns College er det største i Cambridge og grundlagt af Henry VII’s mor, men til Douglas overraskelse var det langt nemmere at komme ind på studiet, end det var at blive medlem af Footlights. Allerede i studiesammenhænge begyndte Douglas at opbygge sin livslange tradition for at overskride tidsfrister. Forlagsredaktører har været på sammenbruddets rand over Douglas evne til at komme dage, måneder og år for sent med manuskripter, og Douglas havde selv føl- gende kommentar til spørgsmålet om tidsfrister: "Jeg elsker tidsfrister. Jeg elsker deres susende lyd, når de stryger forbi mig." På revysiden faldt han slet ikke naturligt ind i Footlights-ensemblet. Han husker dem som ophøjede og overlegne, og Douglas måtte i stedet melde sig ind i Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society (CULES). Her producerede man små shows, der blev opført blandt andet på hospitaler og i fængsler, men de var sjældent populære. I sit andet semester var Douglas så heldig at møde et medlem af Foot- lights, Simon Jones, der ulig de andre medlemmer var imødekommende og venlig. Dette møde skulle vise sige ikke blot at blive Douglas' vej ind i 7 Footlights, men også starten på et senere samarbejde i en Hitch Hiker's- produktion, hvor Simon Jones spillede hovedrollen Arthur Dent. Det var også i Footlights, at Douglas mødte John Lloyd, som studerede jura på Trinity College.
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