Just wondering what others think…
Is Michael Moore on a 60 day tour to get the Democratic vote out or to earn more than $1.8 million for 180 hours work before his celebrity power wanes after the election? Or both?
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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.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“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.
~ David Simon
The most helpful thing Michael Moore could do for the Democrats in this election is to shut his big yapper.
I share his political views, but he’s such a transparent, frothing ideologue that he undermines his own message. If you were an average, moderate voter, would you trust him?
Remember Pat Buchanan in 1992? Same deal.
A Kerry presidency would be better for America in every way I can imagine. But Michael Moore can’t convey that message without resorting to lazy half-truths and distortions, and so he discredits all of us on the left.
Oh you mean the half truths that the entire
Republican party are carrying on with in ad after
ad after ad? I am sorry, but you can only fight
fire with fire.
Thus the problem I will always have with liberals
who want to disassociate themselves with Moore.
He fights the fight that no one wants the fight;
the fight for the hearts and minds against the
tyranny of Carl Rove and the rest of those assholes
who work for him.
They have a term for people like Moore in Hockey.
They are called GOONS. Everyone needs a good
goon on their side. Especially the Liberals
and democrats who are seen as weak when it’s nothing
but a lie by the goons on the right.
And David; you really need to let it go brah.
ooh, this sets up a good fight between Farcical Bob and BrotherhoodOfSqueal
Wouldnt be much of a debate. Now would it?
The chances of a Northeast Liberal winning? About the same as Steel with a coherent post.
Small
moores flick is about as much in fantasy land as lord of the rings
I think the answer to your question is if Moore has his new books and DVD for sale after the show.
Yeah Bob, all of those Iraqis getting blown to
shit in Farenheit 9/11 exist only in the realm
of fantasy. Sure it does Bob. I guess your spelling
reflects just have fucking dumb and clueless you
are. Not as dumb and clueless as Mark, who cant
decide if he wants to be ‘mark’ or “Mark.”
Hey, if an efeminate bitch of a man from Texas can
become president via stealing the election! THAN
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN! DONT GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS
BABY! WOO!
Just when you think he cannot get any dumber….
You keep surprising us, Steel. Keep it up. Maybe while you’re at it you can fill us in on Kerrys 40th position on terror.
Glad to Bush does not care about Osama Bin Laden.
Ha Ha. You so stupid! IF you could try a little
bit harder, then maybe beating the shit out of you
everyday in David Poland’s top notch blog would
be some what fun. It’s not, due to you two sucking
so damn hard.
Try harder; or just try to respond with one identity.
Crazy Republicans.
u might be the dumbest guy i have ever encountered. do u think before u write this crap? or u still hung up on ur small manhood??
Bob, I have never encountered such a BIG PILE OF STUPID ever on the internet. And that’s saying something since the internet seems to be crawling with people slightly smarter than you Bob, but still pretty bloody stupid. You exist on a realm of function that makes me wonder how you big dumb white male Republicans have any power anyway. I mean if you are this stupid. You have to be able to beat in any election or in anything else.
You are just bloody dumb Bob. You cant type ‘YOU’ for Christ’s sake, but I need to rethink my thinking? Arent you a jem of a human being. Seriously, how friggin lazy does a person have to be just to type ‘U’? You are special Bob. I am shocked you are still here, since I have essentially been goading you into looking like a jackass on an almost daily basis Mark. I mean Bicycle Bob.
I might look horrible in all of this, but at least I do not look as bloody sad and pathetic as you Bob. You take the gold in the sad and pathetic categories, but there are more pathetic ways in which you can look in the coming weeks if you decide to continue be the Patrick Ewing to my Scottie Pippen.
Do what you want there dumb dumb. Not like YOU could comprehend what I just typed any way since you are probably still fascinated with the smell of your finger that has been up your ass since we first met.
Could you two jack-offs take this outside? This is supposed to be a forum about movies!
Yeah, if only…
hey dumbass
its michael jordan not patrick ewing. i’m really laughing at how dumb U really are
No Bob, this event between Pippen and Ewing easily
one of the greatest moments in NBA history. I am
laughing at you, and your lack of comprehension.
Silly fellow; you thought you knew something.
Sorry, Steel. Jordan played with Pippen. What fan of sports doesn’t know that????
I hope you’re kidding us.
It’s a specific moment when MJ wore Barons colours
, and thought he could play baseball!
GET ON WITH IT! YEAH, GET ON WITH IT!
i think this dude didnt even know jordan played basketball.
He knows as much about sports as he does about politics. Good thing its a movie industry blog.