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“That’s what the craven do sometimes… they stand out of the fray… and thump their egos along with their chests… and let others do the fighting.”
Alan Shore on Boston Legal
Episode written by David E. Kelley
May 5, 2024
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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
Shatner carries him.
It’s a good quotation. It’s, of course, a thinly vailed reference to Bush, and Bush IS a craven coward who only cares about his rich oil business “daddies” and doing what they tell the dumb little bitch to do for them.
Ty, you really got to leave your house some days and live life. Hating Bush isn’t healthy for you. Thats the problem with you people. How does Bush effect your daily life working at the local Starbucks? Be thankful. I realize you have never experienced any joy in your life but try some.
mark perk up. its the same tude thats gonna get them beat in every election after this. they’ll never realize they’re in the minority
Where do I begin, Mark? First, you need to learn the difference between the words, “effect” and “affect”, especially if you’re going to go around and call other people stupid. You meant to say: “How does Bush AFFECT your daily life.”
Second, you should consider the irony of being alone in front of your computer at 7:14 p.m. on Valentine’s evening, telling us that we need to “leave the house” and “live life”. I can’t speak for other “bitter” “loser” liberals who “don’t get out of the house” like Jon S, Gombro, etc., but it seems kind of interesting that so many of us seemed to have had better things to do on Valentine’s evening than bitterly flaming strangers on an internet blog, and yet we’re the ones who need to “get out of the house??” Even bicycle bob took the night off to hit the pasture and look for Daisy. (At 7:14 my sweetheart and I were probably just being seated at a very nice restaurant filled with others, like ourselves, who actually had things to embrace on Valentines besides our sticky keyboards.)
By the way, I don’t work at Starbucks. I’m not going to give away too much about where I work or what I do exactly, but I have a feeling that my private office is bigger than your whole studio apartment (the one that you sat in alone, on your computer, at 7:14 p.m. on Valentine’s Day evening.)
Actually the people who do work at Starbucks have plenty of reasons to be angry at Bush. Many of them are qualified for much better jobs than they have, but Bush exported them all to Asia as part of his “economic plan.”
wow. someone has way too much time on her hands and is way too bitter about their lot in life.
You are talking about Mark, right bi-bob? He is the only person to fit that description.
talking about ty smith. stay with me stella. u know what i’m talking about. even u can see it.
Mark’s the one who was home alone on Valentine’s night making posts, not Ty. (I had a date too, by the way.) I’ll bet if you go back and count you’d find that Mark and bob both have posted about five times as much as me, or Stella, or Ty. Is you’re only argument stragegy to say, in so many words: “I know you are, but what am I?” Cuz that’s all you guys have been doing for the last several months on here.
Ty has some anger issues. A real rage that needs to be quieted. Try some prozac. I have way too many people here obsessing over my romantic life. Can’t get me out of your head Joe?
No one’s obsessed with you, Mark. Though your bad spelling and grammar is pretty sexy. It just seems pathetic to us that you were on the blog on Valentine’s day spewing out your anger when the rest of had dates. No wonder you’re so angry and bitter.
i think ty has a crush on u too mark. its cute. a little sad but cute. maybe him and joe can fight it out. but they’re peaceniks who don’t believe in war. they can try to liberal talking point to the death.
Here are some bullet points so you can understand us. (We know how much conservatives like bullet points.)
* How can we have a crush on someone when we don’t know what he looks like?
* When all we know is he’s dumb and can’t spell?
Of course it’s true that dumb guys are easier to trick into letting us fuck them, like the way Bush tricked you vets into voting for him before he started fucking you in return. Maybe he told you it’s a proctology examination and you believe him, but you’re really just getting fucked by him.
Why do you keep avoiding the real issues, like:
* Bush having contempt for the troops?
* Mark being alone on Valentine’s Day?
ur crushing on his personality. ur like meg ryan in you’ve got mail. its cute.
Sorry Ty. You’re not my type. I’m sure you will find that special guy out there. Just keep on trying.
But I hear angry right-wingers are really, really TIGHT! 😉
The term angry right wingers really doesn’t apply anymore. Remember? We are winning. Everything. Now lets hear that Howard Dean like scream, Ty boy.