Article: BUSY WRITER GETS PYTHONS TO HELP.(VIEWPOINT)

Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer

Author Douglas Adams figures that if he can get one member of Monty Python to write a book for him, he might as well sit back and let other folks do all the publicity for him as well.

``I've got teams of people doing interviews,'' Adams said.

He and Monty Pythoners Terry Jones and Eric Idle recently discussed Adams' ploy to let others do all his dirty work.

Jones provided the voice of a semi-deranged narrator parrot for Adams' new CD-ROM adventure called Starship Titanic, and when Adams realized that the game had a decent plot, he recruited Jones, the director of the Pythons' ``Life of ...

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