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May 2, 2005
Issue 419
Vol. 11, No. 18

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COVER ART Featured Artist:
Stewart Hyde

INTERVIEW

 Director Garth Jennings needn't panic—thanks to the hard work of actors Zooey Deschanel, Martin Freeman and Sam Rockwell, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has become a box-office hit.


LAB NOTES

 Scientist Wil McCarthy uncovers the secrets of the universe in the pages of the "Encyclopedia (not Battlestar) Galactica."

NEWS OF THE WEEK
 Denzel Washington travels through time after a case of Deja Vu, Will Ferrell charts a course to the Land of the Lost, David Duchovny keeps The Secret, Brannon Braga crosses the Threshold, Elisha Cuthbert gets physical in House of Wax, and much more.
ON SCREEN
 Martin Freeman goes along for the ride in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Lucy Lawless dies for the last time on the Xena: Warrior Princess season-six DVD, and Dana Snyder clones around on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force volume-three DVD.
OFF THE SHELF
 Damien Broderick goes to war against the machines in Godplayers, while Sean Williams teleports a serial killer in The Resurrected Man.
GAMES
 Battle monsters from ancient legends with blades and magic in the third-person action adventure God of War for the PlayStation 2.
ANIME
 A huge yellow starfish becomes a backpack and bodyguard for a perky sixth-grader in the unusually paced episodes of Shadow Star Narutaru.
SOUND SPACE
 Composer Russell Garcia makes a musical visit to Atlantis: The Lost Continent, while Miklos Rozsa wields The Power of exotic rhythms.
SITE OF THE WEEK
 Controversy reigns at Contrary Brin, the official blog of writer David Brin, with debates over Star Wars, politics, the war in Iraq and more.
LETTERS
 Readers take on Terry Goodkind, remember the original Doctor Who, debate the language (and smoking habits) of Battlestar Galactica, and more.

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