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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
People kept warning me that after I turned 18 that I’d get notices for jury duty all the time but I still haven’t gotten one yet. Not that I want one but I just feel a little less important.
Festival jury duty or real jury duty?
You are summoned only if you’re a registered voter. Are you registered to vote, waterbucket?
The Pauly Shore movie?
yeah, I’m registered but maybe now I’m away for college so even if they send it, I wouldn’t receive it. Oh no, maybe they have all these unanswered summons and I’ll be arrested. Yikes!?!
I don’t think there are many guys in prison in there for ignoring jury duty. But I’ve never been to prison, so you never know.
Jury duty in California? How many wannabe actors think its a “Twelve Angry Men” audition?
States are different. Many states (like California) put you in the jury duty pool if you have a drivers’ license. Which seems a little unfair, because it means all those non-drivers get a pass.
Wasn’t Oprah on jury duty recently? I want to say it was a murder case, but I’m not certain.
“Many states (like California) put you in the jury duty pool if you have a drivers’ license.”
Aren’t there proposals to give illegal immigrants driver’s licenses in Cali? How will they manage the jury pool if that happens?
Go read Kevin Smith’s website silentbobspeaks.com where he talks about having to sit on a jury while suffering from severe anal fissures. Classic! And extremely gross! I think it was his last entry over a month ago….and for obvious reasons.
You know what I just found out, the song “Desperado” by the Eagles is perfect to describe Ennis del Mar from Brokeback Mountain. I’m listening to Clint Black’s version right now and it’s really good.
It’s off topic but it’s better to think about than severe anal something.
All states have different rules. Usually it’s more of a fine than federal pound me in the arse prison.
Give me HOTEL CALIFORNIA over anal pains. And I’ll be taking Glen Frey over Donnie Henley.
By the way
If you’re ever up for the duty don’t try to use the “I’m racist and hate everyone even my mother and I’m pre judged to everyone I see” line.
It didn’t work.
Uh… did my jury duty entry somehow just end up with more Brokeback Mountain chatter in it?
Must have been my imagination.
“God, I wish I knew how to acquit you!”
When I was 22 and got called for the first time, because I grew up with Italy’s Finest I thought when you got dinged for jury duty, you just pick up the phone and call a judge or a DA to get out of it.
I can neither confirm or deny that I did that.
I served on a jury one time. Guy speeding in a stolen car at midnight with drugs all over the front seat. Why he didn’t plead guilty to begin with is beyond me, but we were outta there in a day-and-a-half. Trust me, unless it’s one of those really rare high-profile murder cases, it ain’t nearly as bad as it seems.
waterbucket, me and some friends saw Brokeback and after it finished we left and went to the car. the first song that came on the CD player was “Hope There’s Someone” by Antony and the Johnsons. Now THAT is a song for Ennis. “Hope there’s someone/to take care of me/when i die/when i’m tired”
I’ve never had to do jury duty and I’ve been 18 for years now… maybe it’s different in Australia?
I thought in Australia all cases were decided not by juries, but in the Thunderdome.