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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 know the top is Ellen Pompeo. Who’s the bottom girl?
She is pretty great on that ABC show, Grey’s Anatomy.
joefitz84 wrote: I know the top is Ellen Pompeo. Who’s the bottom girl? >>>
Kimberly Williams, I believe:
http://imdb.com/name/nm0931090/
That would be Michelle Monaghan, who co-stars in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and is currently shooting Mission: Impossible 3.
Somehow, Pompeo got the hit TV show, but Monaghan is getting the movie star build.
they are both very hot ladies…Pompeo has that unforced & natural feeling whenever I see her in any movie, be it Moonlight Mile or Old School or Catch Me If You Can…Monaghan I don’t know much about, except for the fact that she’s a hottie…I wonder how she’s doing with TC…and where is the big TC news?
I think Ellen Pompeo’s one of the most attractive actresses working today. I think tv might be a better fit for her though- in films she’d always be doing the roles Renee Zellweger turned down.
Some girls are movie stars. Some are small screen stars. Don’t cry for Ellen. She is going to make a fortune on the small screen. She already has a hit show to her credit.
Which one’s which? The pix are side by side on my screen, so joefitz84’s initial comment doesn’t help me. Needless to say, I don’t recognize either woman.
In mine, the one on the left was on top. Thats Ellen. Old School. Moonlight Mile.
monaghan got the coveted mission impossible role.
E Pompeo was also on Old School. Not a big role but she made an impression. Monaghan is definately as they say, hotter. And therefore a bigger big screen presence.
We need a column asking if this just might be the worst August ever for new releases. Off the top of my head Deuce 2, Dukes, Four Brothers, Skeleton Key. Critical and financial disappointments (well Dukes should be ok). We can’t even get one good picture here.
I didn’t care much for Skeleton Key or Four Brothers, but both are doing pretty well financially.
Pompeo made the right move. At 35, she’s too old to become a movie star by today’s standards. And there isn’t enough space to list all the actors who toiled for ages in films and then suddenly got a hit TV series and became superstars.
Terence D wrote: We need a column asking if this just might be the worst August ever for new releases. … Off the top of my head Deuce 2, Dukes, Four Brothers, Skeleton Key. Critical and financial disappointments (well Dukes should be ok). We can’t even get one good picture here. >>>
Not sure where you live or if all these movies are available to you in theaters, but the following quality films are also August releases: The Constant Gardener, Junebug, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Broken Flowers, Red Eye, 2046 (although I didn’t like it) and The Brothers Grimm.
I liked Four Brothers. Just don’t go into it expecting Casablanca.
“Four Brothers” is a great rock-the-house action flick. I’ve already seen it twice, and wouldn’t mind seeing it again before I get the DVD. Ten years from now, it will still be in heavy rotation on the USA Network.
Is heavy rotation on the USA network really something worth bragging about? Man we really saw a different movie Joe. Oh well.
Hey, what can I say, Stel? Sometimes I want steak. Sometimes I want caviar. And sometimes I want a mess o’ Popeye’s Fried Chicken. “Four Brothers” is the spicy legs-and-thighs special with a large side of fries and a hot apple pie. Come to think of it, so is “Red Eye.”
I agree with Joe, Four Brothers is definitely not PC but I found it fun. The Italian restaurant scene is classic.
Marky Mark is really good in it. I thought he may have peaked with Boogie. But he may have a career after all.