The story about Tom Cruise got squashed and I was stupid to even bring it up before it was actually out if I wasn’t going to cough it up myself.
My sincere apologies… not that I think the story is false… just that I made the mistake of ever bringing it up.
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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
So, whats holding you back from spilling? His lawyers?
Well, now we’ll see if “truth will out,” as they say. And maybe “once bitten, twice shy” also.
What does that mean, BC?
Tom tried to convert Lindsay with coke and roles in blockbusters? Noooooo.
Why don’t you just post it as some crazy blind item. All of us gossip addicted vampires want to know.
Saw 40-Year-Old Virgin tonight. Thanks for the recommendation DP . . . best comedy of the summer.
Squashed by who? This sounded like a legitimate story, so I don’t get it!
lots of stories get squashed about Tom Cruise.
The only person there are more stories squashed about…at least over the last 10 years…is Spacey.
“What does that mean, BC?” Just that next time you give us a heads up on an item like this, you’ll have waited a bit longer since this time it didn’t pan out. That’s all. You weren’t actually bitten by anything, so I guess the analogy wasn’t appropriate. False start, maybe? No worries, it happens to all of us.
Why hold it in? Did Tom kill someone?? Or did he get caught with Lohan and some guy in a threesome?
It has nothing to do with Ms. Lohan except metaphorically.
Dear Mr Poland:
You’re in deep shit.
Yours angrily,
Bert Fields
I hate a tease. Gossipus interruptus is not nice.
I don’t know if this is the Tom Cruise “story” David declined to share here on the Blog, but since it’s published in this Australian newspaper’s website, you all might want to read it. The title? Tom wants Oprah.
http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,16328380-7485,00.html
I don’t know if I’m more frightened by the Oprah story or by the fact that when I temporarily moved to Hollywood I discovered there’s no less than four Scientology buildings on Hollywood Blvd. alone.
Oprah wants her female best friend. Tom wants every male. It works out.
Ironically, I spent Thursday through Saturday night in upper Northern CA. …the apex of the Hollywood rumor mill…and stumbled across the big “story.”
A friend of mine said that the “buzz” among Hollywood types is that Cruise got caught making out with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20. Apparently Thomas’s wife caught them going at it a few weeks before Cruise launched his hit list of girls he had to date. Word is Katie is the new gay beard and was chosen ASAP to help cover this story.
Is it true? I have no flipping idea. But Rob Thomas is just random enough to seem real. I mean if you’re gonna lie….why not pick someone like Collin Farrel or Tim Robbins or something?
The story I know about has nothing to do with anyone’s sexuality. And as far as I know, via a family member who used to work with him, Rob Thomas is straight.
But maybe he’s….. flexible.
The story that used to be at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8669416/
Tom Cruise teased at Anderson’s roast
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Aug. 16, 2005
Poor Tom Cruise.
Pamela Anderson gets roasted, and yet he’s the butt of jokes. The
“Stacked” star was subject to a roast in Los Angeles recently –
which was broadcast on Comedy Central – but the “War of the
Worlds” also got a lot of heat.
“One of the roasters, Greg Giraldo, said, ‘Pam, you being the star
of a show about books and reading, is like Tom Cruise starring in a
show about vaginas,’ ” according to a source.
“Another roaster Sarah Silverman, joked that she knew comedian Andy
Dick was definitely straight because he just hit on [Cruise’s
sweetie] Katie Holmes,” says another.
Are the organizers behind the event worried that the notoriously
litigious Cruise will sue? “They were just jokes,” a Comedy Central
spokeswoman tells The Scoop “Tom Cruise can take them however he
wants to.”
Tom Cruise did say something about Pamela Anderson or reacted to the jokes somehow, but don’t know the details. Maybe that’s Dave’s Lindsay Lohan analogy.
The Matchbox 20 thing is old news and may be false news. If Rob Thomas’ wife makes a 5M deposit in the bank or plonks down Millions on land, bling etc than maybe she has been paid to keep schtum. That’s the thing to watch for if Page Six cares, is evidence of payoff.
The jokes at the Anderson Roast about Cruise were hilarious. The Courtney Love jokes were even funnier.