The View From Lunch
The New York Times (as embodied by Ross Johnson) interviews Scott Wilson
The interview gets out of control and Mr. Johnson shows us NYT hardball interview technique
And still The 13th Hardest Working Man In Show Business…
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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
My advice. Stay there. The mainland is overrated anyway.
Why is Don Rickles arm wrestling??
Don Rickles is a natural left hander too. He’ll take on anyone!
Over the Top 2???
I’m craving a vodka cranberry right now.
You actually picked Crash to win it all???
Are you doing that just to make us Brokeback fans angry or has that horrendous combo of orange shirt and red hat made you lose your mind?
Either way, you….suck!
well Dave, it could be a trick of the light, but it looks like you are developing a “island gut” under that violent orange shirt so make sure you get rid if it (the gut, not the shirt) pronto upon return to hell-ay before the natives turn on you. 6-pack abs or Die.
That ain’t island gut… that’s zaftig yo.
That made me think of a newpunk group name…like one of those 80s retro German punk groups
will y’all out there give a hearty h8ter’s ball welcome to….(synthetic drum roll)
“D-Po Zaftig!”
seriously Dave. lay off the carbs or next thing you know you’ll have a nice pair o’ man-cans.
(because we care)
You’re on vacation.
It’s almost required that you acquire an island gut. Why else go away?
What’s wrong with the shirt?
It’s hip. Orange is in.
whats wrong with a gut or flab?
in some cultures its indicative of good living, class and humility
besides dont you know? dave poland is our own “fijian wrestler.”
You’re looking well rested, David. I envy you!
thats a sign hes well rested and feeling good. what man over 35 has a 6 pack anyway? brad pitt?
Dave – we’re all jealous as hell. Wish we could be sitting at our laptops – on an island, with a cocktail, brightly dressed and almost smiling. You look good. Enjoy every second.
I am extremely jealous of you. It looks like a really fun trip. May have to go on a cruise now.
Huh!
I notice y’all point out every wrinkle on a woman’s face past 30, yet a gut on y’all is apparently soooo coool. My Pop is 68 and doesn’t have a gut. Yo.
Relax. I was just giving Dave some tough love.
Dif’ standards apply.
I do feel bad for women out there. Once you hit 40? It’s all downhill. At least according to magazines and that crap. Such a double standard. A world where Robert Redford is seen as “weathered and aging the right way”. Where Harrison Ford is still headlining movies. But a women that’s 60? She can’t find work if she did it for free. She’s playing the grandma or the loony aunt,
You guys are cracked; there’s nothing wrong with the way DP looks in that photo. Take it from a dame. Are like the readers of this site 15 or something? Bodies not quite developed into men? Tough crowd, man, tough crowd.
The rule is:
Whenever on vacation you can wear whatever you damn well please. Cause you’re on vacation.
There’s got to be something better to do on that island then to screw around on the internet.
For 23 hours and 58 minutes there is.