Jerry Falwell’s June 25 Sermon offered this key passage:
“You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore. Ellen [Degeneres], and all the rest. I love them, pray for their souls, but they’re immoral. And the Hollywood scene — five and eight and 10 marriages — not something to be emulated.”
I guess we need a new chant… “We Great… We Straight… Get Used To It!!!!”
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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 can agree with him on the five and eight and ten marriages part, but that’s it. He’s a dangerous loon.
I look forward to Nicol explaining how Falwell is unfairly picked on by the liberal and secular media.
Fat Fuck.
Stella,
No.
All I’ll offer is that maybe he can take over all Mike Ovitz’s old clients.
C’mon, you wouldn’t like to see Falwell managing Steven Spielberg’s career!
“Ellen and all the rest.” I love it. Like, um….Jim J. Bullock. And, uh, Mario Cantone. And, uh…
And with the magic of cut N paste:
“At last, I understand why I have yet to achieve success out here. It has nothing to do with the fact I haven’t written a new script in years – it’s because I don’t smoke cock.
And here I was thinking just being a regular type sex pervert would get me in….”
(he uses the word pervert elsewhere in the sermon, so please no chastisements for saying all gays are perverts)
Actually, I was waiting for Nicol to start explaining how Falwell is just a misunderstood satirist…
That’s hilarious. Cause all those marriages he talks about are just fronts for their true homosexual identities?
lol.
Besides, Ellen had already “made it” before she came out.
And it’s not like people in Hollywood haven’t been doing the multiple marriage thing for years. People make it sound like it’s a new thing.
Love how they ignore that 40+% of first marriages have been ending in divorce all over the nation.
Hollywood is just a reflection of our own flaws and great dreams. To focus on it, instead of fixing the problems in your own home, is a major waste of energy and time.
This is going to come as a tremendous shock to Colin Farrell.
Ya know… people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Even among practicing conservative Christians, the divorce rate is around 40%. And some 10% of all people, regardless of their religious beliefs are born homosexuals, whether they’re open about it or not.
Also, I am keenly aware that many good Christians have feet of clay where sexual misdeeds are concerned. Jim Baker? Catholic pedophile priests? Jimmy Swaggart? To name just a few of the “holy” who have failed to live up to Falwell’s standards of sexual purity.
There are times when I think Falwell must be a parady… there’s no way anyone could take him seriously, surely. He has so many feet sticking out of this mouth, he ought to be a cartoon character.
^^^^Yeah, you almost got to be sexually impure to be recognized in religion anymore. Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggart, and all the rest, I love them, but they’re immoral.
And the Christian scene…40% divorce rate…not something to be emulated.
Stuff like this gives me a great big ‘lol’ in my stomach. As a gay man, im really supremely unbothered if some religious zealot who uses religion as a smokescreen for descrimination says that he hates me and im evil and yadayadablah. (FYI, its not a choice so, moral or not, deal with it! ha)
But when i hear quotes about some moron thinking my sexuality gives me a ‘leg up’ i just want to laugh. My sexuality is a tiny factor in the whole me process, its my business (its not like im one of those stupid neon sign gays), i dont do it in front of him, and if he thinks i care about his misinformed opinions, hes so wrong i can almost hear my knuckles crinking.
My point is, why cover up his pretty obvious hatred of gayness with a thin veneer of ‘poor middleman me’, and not just SAY it- id give him more respecte* (read: ambivalence) for that, than for his ‘meh’ towards us.
Oh and- immoral? Well EXCUUUUUUSE my natural attraction to men. And gayness is not a sexual perversion. That makes it sound much more fun and interesting than it is.
You waited three years to post that?
daviemoo: If it’s any consolation, Falwell died almost two years ago.