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By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com

Two Weeks In

After two weeks of blogging, I would be curious to get some feedback from y’all…

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10 Responses to “Two Weeks In”

  1. Keep doing it, Dave. It’s an interesting venue, to say the least. 😉

  2. John says:

    Big Fan of the Blog… Keep it up

  3. micdus says:

    I always love reading your stuff, so the more places the better.

  4. Sandy says:

    David, it’s a great idea, keep it up. Like someone else said, it’s just another place to read your stuff but it’s cool.

  5. BrotherhoodOfSteel says:

    Yeah, you cant abandoned the blog David. More stuff of yours to read; very top notch. Just promote it a bit more in the Hot Button just to see if Taiwan Steve likes to blog!

  6. JFlix says:

    DP, I like the blog, just as everyone else seems to. But I think it would be greatly enhanced if maybe you would throw in some feedback to the feedback on a more consistent basis. It might keep the debate going and spur people to keep writing if they have that feeling of immediate back-and-forth. You have done it a couple times before, but more often would help, I think, make this blog work even better.

  7. Like I toldja up in Canada-town, I dig the bloggo. Gives you a chance to splurt out some random thoughts without having to hold them for an entire THB article.

  8. JT says:

    Mr. Poland…I have been a fan of THB for several years now. Frankly, I think it is great, this blog thing, as one person said before this, it gives you a chance to post things that you might just have a few lines tosay about instead of a whole article. I enjoy the feedback section because it is like being the ROTD, which I have been a couple of times in THB (fondly remember enjoying that you published my piece about “Three Kings” not long ago.
    It is interesting that both you and Jeff Wells have instituted blogs in recent weeks. It (his “Wired” column)works well for him since he doesnt post a lot of words during his two or three pieces a week, but yours is really the best writing and it is just great to hear more from a favorite critic/writer.
    Thanks for the Toronto coverage here. I am SO looking forward to “Sideways” and to searching out “Hotel Rwanda,” even if I have to drive a hundred miles to see it!

  9. Heiron says:

    David,
    The blog gets a serious shout-out from an old-school fan. (been with you since “The Whole Picture” circa ’96)
    IMHO, Mo’Poland = Mo’Betta!
    Is it possible the low number of comments are a result of hypo-linkitude? There’s no direct jump from THB, and MCN’s link can be easily overlooked. (Or at least it was by me.)
    Regardless, keep writing.
    Please.

  10. Peter Guzzo says:

    Love the blog Dave. Keep it up.

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
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“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

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