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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 wonder if the scientologists get a cut of this
Can anyone remember a meltdown this sizeable from an A-lister like Cruise? Sure, lots of come-and-go famous people go nuts, but Cruise has been around for a solid 2 decades. What the hell?
It is unprecedented. On par with Michael Jackson. Without the kid touching.
Damn X-Box exclusives….
the meltdown gets funnier everyday.
Can she back out of the relastionship if it doesn’t improve her career. She has been dropped from the Batman Sequel.
Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise have both had 2 failed marriages to WOMEN, so they have that in common. But is Tom’s arrangement with Katie any creepier than Michael Jackson’s arrangement with Debbie Rowe? I’m not sure.
And is L Ron Hubbard a better sci-fi writer than HG Wells? Sorry Wells, but Hubbard created a religion with millions of followers who view him as a prophet or a god, you didn’t.
Like I overheard William Goldman at a Knicks game, “You know, I really think Jeff Van Gundy should come back to the Knicks, he’s a very underated coach. And about Scientology, I have Scientologist actors come over to my place all the time and they admire my two Oscars, but they don’t view me as a prophet or a god. I admire Hubbard so much for that; he was a true genius.”
Maybe they’ll greenlight Abandon 2 for Katie.
We can hope…
The rumor mill in LA is that Cruise was caught in bed with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20, and Cruise paid him millions for silence and did a contract with Katie Holmes.
and if you believe all that, I have some magic beans for you.
She hasn’t been dropped. That is only internet speculation.
There is always a Return to the Creek for Katie. Van der Beek always needs the work.
Who will they cut her for? It is a nothing role anyway. Not like they need Merryl Streep in it. They can just kill her off in Act 1 and introduce Harvey Dent anyway.
Shhhhh They could be listening, we don’t want the rath of Xenu coming down on us.
Hubbard was a complete and total mental case but I have to agree inventing a religion damn fine way to make a shit load of money.
Scientologists scare the heck outta me.
Scientologists don’t scare me nearly as much as Christian nutjobs with axes to grind and lax gun laws.
Travolta had to suffer all this backlash when Battlefiend Earth came out. Frankly, if Tom thinks Scientology cured him of his dyslexia who are we to care. it’s his problem and his money.
I’m pretty sure there was an official WB statement that said they were dropping here and going with a “stronger actress”. Fine by me.
There was no such statement. What studio would release something like that? No matter what they thought.
You’re right, it was a gossip report. Still, she won’t be back.
There wasn’t a statement about replacing her. The original rumor was reported by the always reliable Page Six, as a part of their daily TomKat bashing. The official statement by WB (to Eonline)was that any sequel talk at this stage is premature.
Why would they replace her? She is not Sofia Coppola here.
The gossip implied Wb was unhappy with too much TomKat during the pubblicity for the movie.
That is your opinion and the opinion of a couple of gossip sites.
Don’t remind us about Godfather 3. I am trying to forget it ever existed.
It exist. I just saw it the other day. Andy Garcia deserved better! DAMN YOU WINONA HOROWITZ! DAMN YOU!
Page Six quouted imdb which mysteriously used WENN as their news provider even though WENN often reports Brit tabloid gossip (usually wrong) as news all the time.
A company as powerful and wealthy as imdb should be using a real news service. It’s embarrassing.
The Batman sequel hasn’t been greenlit yet. And all this other stuff is as real as the endless Bond “scoops.”
So, anyways… War of the Worlds…
Wow…
Was that movie ever dumb.
Wow…
Considering there’s been a new Batman Girl in each of the four prior Batman movies it would make sense to dump Katie under those reasons (yet really be harbouring regret at hiring her for the first on in the first place)
The quotes about a stronger actress and such came from “a source at Warner Bros.”
But, hell, if I was anyone involved with Batman Begins I’d want her away from the sequel like a plague. Even I felt insulted when she said she didn’t care if her love life overshadows her films.