Not Seen At Target
Big Star Wars Section was there… not a single Darth Vader toy to be found… except for one broken package with a darth vader helmet and voice pack which was too small for adults… they should make one for adults… quick…
May 18, 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
I’ve bought a few Revenge of the Sith action figures. I’m a nerd, what can I say? Anyhow, I picked up Vader right away. It seemed like a no-brainer. He’s the most iconic character to ever grace the silver screen. Lucas could make a Darth Vader line of 30 unique figures and it’d still sell like gangbusters. I wouldn’t buy an adult voice box, but I know a few who would.
lucas markets everything. he has to have them for adults
What about the Darth Vader Mr. Potato Head?
Glad to know the Targets at in Los Angeles are as
busted as the one’s in my hood. Absolutely abyssmal
when it comes to reordering toys. However, if you
did not see one Vader Poland. I would wager, that
bugger has been flying off the shelfs at that particular
store. Since he comes packaged about 4 per case.
Who knew the people of the Southland loved Darth
so much?
Excuse me. I have to get back to trying to get my
12-inch General Grievous to stand.
Unfortunately, I always pick the wrong movie-related tchotchkes to buy as investments. I mean, seriously: In my closet, you’ll find action figures for “The Shadow,” “Little Nicky,” “Super Mario Bros.” and “Jurassic Park: The Lost World,” for cryin’ out loud.
joe -what! no WINDTALKER action figures with commando grips?
Please, Jeff. Even I have my standards.
BTW: What’s really amazing is how long some of the bribe-the-press freebies hold up. In my bathroom, I still have a clock from “The Razor’s Edge.” (No, not the Tyrone Power version, the Bill Murray verison.)
oh that clock with the alarm that goes “Time to put that shotgun to your heart” right?
Jeff: Oh, you have one, too?
Dammit! Target doesn’t have king-size (or even queen-size) “Stars Wars” sheets. This really disappoints me, because my “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” sheets are getting kinda faded by now.
Fuck off!
too many choices! which game do i do???
Pssst! Bob! Ix-nay on the Texas Hold-Em. That’s where my son’s college fund went.
The spammers aren’t even supplying links anymore. That last one is just a series of random words.