Channel 7 News here in L.A. opened their entertainment coverage with this important news… Angelina and her still unbroken water have rented a 13-room boutique hotel in Africa so she can push out the baby in the motherland. Local police have threatened to jail anyone with a camera in the vacinity.
And with that, my mind spins off its axis..
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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’d go straight for Angelina Jolie, sans the pregnant bump of course.
Meanwhile, a completely subjective list of what the WGA feels were best screenplays ever written and produced would seem to be something more germaine to this blog (excuse me if I don’t give a shit AND a flying fuck about Jolie’s future tabloid fodder).
I really have to wonder what was judging criteria (did they dust off original and shooting scripts?). For example, No. 6 is ANNIE HALL which any film school dropout or cinemaphile will tell you is a film famous for being saved in edit room.
SHAKESPEARE IN Freakin’ LOVE ranks higher than E.T, BROADCAST NEWS and TAXI DRIVER???? Not to mention, why weren’t the films divided into orignal scripts vs. adaptations?
This list seems ripe for the type of discussion one would expect at site devoted to film, one that leaves discussion of what is passing in or out from between Ms Jolie’s legs to other venues, no?
The WGA list is crap.
What about all the scripts that were ruined during production? What drafts of each are they talking about? Does Harrison Ford get credit for coming up with the best gags in both Raiders and Empire?
Besides, any list that does not include “Midnight Run” by George Gallo cannot be taken seriously.
roy, no offense but if there’s anything lamer than a brangelina tabloid story, it’s a freakin best-of list for movies. Ugh.
No, tabloid crap is still worse.
The more Brangelina stories that come out. The more I feel as if Brad Pitt continues to receive the best cumupence in the public eye in years. He has to fly around the world, have problems with his house in Paris, and have his child born in Africa. Aniston might always have a pouty face. A pouty face, however, in comparison to Africa, might not be that much of a bad thing. One man’s opinion, but it’s better to read about than a bizarre WGA list.
I think I recognize this writing style. Welcome back.
Hmm…Grand Illusion beaten out by Witness and American Beauty among others.
Thanx. However, if I have a writing style, then I really need to call of that nice Hacker lady. See what’s up with her, and ask for some pointers. Witness, beat out, Grand Illusion? I need to check out that WGA list more closely. I am curious as to why American Beauty still receives any sort of love from listmakers, due to the apparent backlash the movie has received in recent years, weeks, and probably days..
I rather read about Brangelina trying to dave the world than some Unholy crap list putting American Beauty above Grand Illusion.
oops I mean Save the world. The world has enough Dave as it is.
While I enjoy the ongoing misery of Brad Pitt’s existance. May I point to number 17 on the WGA List, then point to what’s behind it. I love Tootsie. It has NO RIGHT on any planet or dimension, being above TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD let alone Lawerance of Arabia. These lists never cease to be aggrevating on the most marginal level. Now, we end this, to return to your regularily scheduled posting; Brad Pitt, that’s what you get for being pretty!
Let’s start a pool on how long before some rock band snags the name “Angelina’s Vagina.” I know I’d go see the band if I saw that name on a marquee.
Well, this list has Star Wars on it so it’s not really judging by the worthiness of the actual script but seems to be based largely on success.
My #1 would be Woody Allen’s screenplay for “Manhattan”. just bliss.
I do give the WGA props for putting Harold & Maude on there though. Whod’ve thunk that’d show up.
And seriously, if people actually didn’t view Shakespeare in Love through the “it stole Saving Private Ryan’s Oscar” filter then they’re realise it has one of the best screenplays of the decade.
This merely proves that working and even acclaimed screenwriters haven’t seen any movies made before 1960 except the standard handful of acknowledged classics. And they can’t even get that right–CASABLANCA #1? Characters telling each other their own backstories? Cringe-inducing lines like, “Is that cannon fire or my heart pounding?” Yeah, it’s an entertaining picture, but the best-written of all time? Good Lord.
Miss Jolie is set to join the gang of Ocean’s 13 this summer.
Oh thank you Jesus! Thank you Jewish God! Thank you Tom Cruise!
God, if they could’ve kept ahold of Julia and Catherine… imagine that!
Ocean’s 13 will be alright if Soderbergh stays away from being an arty wanker wanting to show off his new tricks like he did with 12. WOW, we’re using black and white!
Fark thread from Friday: “Brad Pitt trying to persuade Angelina Jolie to star in ‘Gigli 13’.”