I am glad that no one has killed or been killed on the blog while I’ve been away… either that or you’ve all been incredibly generous about not letting me know.
And now, a little more evidence suggesting that suffering for my work is exactly what’s going on here…
When Snorkling Calls
No… It’s Not A Disney Cruise
Perhaps the single greatest blackjack dealer ever to work a cruise ship
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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” â 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 â 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 â he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” â and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging â I was with her at that moment â 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 namedâ” “Yeah, sure â 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 Iâm on the phone with you now, after all thatâs 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 didnât seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereâs not a case of that. He wasnât using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had â if that were what the accusation involved â 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. Iâm not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, âYou know, itâs not this, itâs thatâ? Because â let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, thatâs what it lacked. Thatâs 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’d like to double down on that.
I need help with my homework.
That pic gives the term Bareback Mountin’ a whole new twist.
After Crow’s double down joke, is it too late to say that I wouldn’t mind splitting that pair?
sorry.
Damn, Laz… knocked it out the park. A+!
I guess the header of “Still Cruisin'” would have worked just fine with just that bottom picture. đ
“Cruisin” as in Al Pacino?
That’s one nice piece of ace.
I got nothing.
Perhaps the single greatest blackjack dealer ever to a cruise. [NSFW]
Someone has a crush on a certain cruiseline employee…
Forget David, that lady looks like a “Fijian wrestler.”
She musta gone to the “Sandahl Bergman School of Blackjack”.
Jeffrey Boam’s Doctor, that was WROOOOOONNNNGGG!
What the hell? Was that photo by Lars Von Trier?
Dealing with 2 feet of snow or snorkeling off that picturesque location?
I may have chose the wrong career.
Was just perusing the Academy Award nominee luncheon photos on WireImage…forget the Oscars, this always seems to me like it’d be the most fun awards season show to attend.
I’m very struck by how, in the photos, nominees Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, and Dan Futterman all look vaguely related…some enterprising casting director needs to get on that. Although Joaquin’s not done any favors being placed next to Gyllenhaal in some of these photos…let’s just say it looks like Joaquin’s been taking a lot of…um, er, “car crash stuff” lately.
And Kamikaze Camel will be thrilled to note that amidst this sea of expensive suits and dresses, Phillip Seymour Hoffman is dressed like he’s going to the corner grocery store at 3am.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to eat fruit for a while now.
Thanks, David.
Maybe it’s a Pixar cruise?
This looks like one fantastic cruise. Beautiful scenery.
I’m taking a wild guess here and saying that there is absolutely no movie watching going on during the days.
“Freedomland” opens this week.
This might be why DP chose this week to go on holiday.
FREEDOMLAND cannot be worse than PINK PANTHER. it is impossible. It just cannot be done. If PP doesn’t make year worst lists, I fear for this year at the cinema. Fear it.
How they keep screwing up Richard Price novels I’ll never know. The man is a genuis. The movie adaptations of his work has been terrible on the whole. Freedomland doesn’t look good to change that.
Price also wrote the script to “Shaft”. I wouldn’t be throwing the “genuis” label around that quickly. Also, “Kiss of Death”. I think he needs a few more great novels before genuis can be applied here.
Always split a pair. 21 baby!
Never read a Price novel but I’ve seen his movies. Not good.
You don’t blame screenwriters when things go bad. That’s not cool.
Blackjack. Greatest gambling game ever. Craps is overrated.
You can’t really put Shaft on Price alone — Shane Salerno and John Singleton worked on the script, too.
And if Freedomland isn’t the Mystery Bad Movie, I don’t know what could be. Then again, I first thought it was Zathura…
Zathura. Puke.
the really bad movie by dave still has me up nights pondering. with all the crap that has come out its this bad? he did say freedomland was really bad. a stinker. maybe its the one.
Sam Jackson is another one who’ll take any role if you pay him enough money.
How do you mess up a story like Shaft? An iconic character like that. It needed Denzel. Love Sam but Denzel is Shaft 2000.
Jackson did a better Shaft in Pulp Fiction.
Isn’t his next movie Snakes on a Plane? đ đ
I’m just glad Freedomland is being released so I don’t have to see the damn trailer anymore. I think it’s been on every movie but Narnia I’ve seen in the last couple months.
Snakes On A Plane = Highest Opening Weekend of 2006. Just you wait.