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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
As for those cupcakes, I wouldn’t be surprised that it’d close after all the kiddies go back to school.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
They had better be really damn good cupcakes for me to spend 4 bucks on them. Melt in my mouth. Not in my hand good.
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“$45? Well this better be the best tasting beer in the world. You got lucky!”
From the Hot Button article: “Now, as revered as Bobby Short may be, he does not make the kind of money in a year that a Britney Spears can make in one night in one stadium.”
I should hope not. The guy died last year.
But just think of the all the new possibilities for his reality series…
Let’s try it this way: Mose Allison will never make in his entire career (five decades and counting) what Britney makes one night in one stadium. Said it before, I’ll say it again: Darwin was wrong.
Chester the Correction Blog. Welcome all.
I have no problem with Chester calling out the error… he has been quite decent since things have calmed… and I think it is fair to let him loose of the assumptions of the worst as he’s been asked to do for me.
Mose Alison doesn’t have an ass like Britney or a rack like her and doesn’t have a top 10 album.
Britney is flaming out
Her new single has tanked and she has the acting talent of Madonna
Mose Alison will have a top10 album before she does again
The doomsayers are always out there in any endeavor and this column was a perfect example… much applause..
who is mose allison and who cares? i bet he/she won’t get paid 10 mill to take their clothes off for playboy in 2 yrs.
Mose Allison (a he) is a legendary jazz singer/pianist/songwriter. I don’t want to see him naked; I want to hear him sing and play. That’s the difference between people who actually care about music (like his fans) and those who don’t (like Britney’s). The fact that he is still touring and recording after 50+ years proves that a lot of folks still do care about him and his music. The fact that you don’t care (dismissing him outright without even bothering to give him a listen) pretty much tells us all we need to know about you.