Robbie Stamp was born in 1960 and had his career in producing televisiondocumentaries when he met Douglas Adams, with whom he formed a great friendship. When the company The Digital Village was founded, with Douglas Adams as one of its pillars, Stamp became Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Under his leadership the H2G2 project was launched, along with the computer game Starhip Titanic. 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... A documentary is a work in a visual or auditory medium presenting political, scientific, social, or historical subjects in a factual and informative manner. ... Douglas Noël Adams in an undated publicity photograph Douglas Noël Adams (March 11, 1952 – May 11, 2001) — also known as Bop Ad or Bob after his illegible signature, or by his initials DNA — was a British comic radio dramatist and author, most notably of The Hitchhikers Guide... The Digital Village (TDV) was a digital media company based in Covent Garden, London WC2 in the United Kingdom. ... The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) has the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...
Stamp is also executive producer of the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Executive producer is a role in the entertainment industry that is difficult to define clearly. ... For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ...
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Transcript of webchat with Robbie Stamp on April 12, 2005
RobbieStamp: Douglas himself was on record as saying that as far as he was concerned the only character who had to be English was Arthur Dent, and everything else was up for grabs.
RobbieStamp: If Id been a fan outside of the inner circle that I was lucky enough to be in, and heard that theyre making a movie version which is not only Hollywood, but Disney, as a hardcore fan they would probably have been the last studio I would have chosen to bring it home.
RobbieStamp: We had the backing of a big studio that was able to put an enormous amount of energy behind it, and we were able to shoot in Britain with lots of British actors and with an English producer-director team.
And for RobbieStamp, she is a lifeline to deeply felt ideas about work.
Among other things, Professor Stamp has passed on to her son her "tripod" model of management: "tasking, tending, trusting." "The tripod deals with the work that makes things work," she explains.
Robbie wants to be able to switch from talking about investment opportunities to talking about a beautiful solution to a story problem - and to make that movement with grace.
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