The good folks at iKlipz, a new website that is aiming at being a MySpace for movie lovers, with more services for movie lovers (eventually… still ramping up this week), have asked me to take internet surfers to lunch every week to discuss Hollywood.
I taped my first meal yesterday, and here it is…
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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
Okay, after watching that I find it much easier to forgive you for the Prada/gay men remarks.
This changes everything I ever thought I knew about David Poland.
Who’s the actor you hired to play you? He’s great. = )
Finally I have a face to match with the snark!
LOL, Eric.
Anyhow, interesting Dave…when does Poland & Wells start showing up on that site? There’s a three and half minute clip that I’d be sure to watch every week!
Never, Al. Never.
You’d be sitting on a gold mine. He could invite his son to be a very special guest (and enhance that youth demographic).
I’m guessing I’m not the only one who was hoping to actually see DP chow down while giving us the 411. All that Pirates talk (do you really pronounce “Carribbean” that way? no one else I know does) would have been a lot juicier with some ketchup-dripping burger biting, or some marinara spotting on the shirt. Perhaps it should be called Water w/ Lime & Menu-Reading With David?
I was also surprised at how fast you talk, Dave, considering how well thought-out your actual writing appears to be, but maybe we can chalk that up to first-time jitters. And although you were a little catty about Good Night Shyamalan and Bryan Singer, I prefer your craftily written barbs better (like saying Nikki Finke “has become the screaming bag lady at the corner of Journalism and Vendetta.” Now that was a classic. Don’t be afraid to have a few zingers rehearsed to let loose on camera. We want drama!
Imagine Wells, DP, Favreau, and Kevin Smith (Dinner for Eight?). Now that would be video-streaming nirvana. These guys would be cutting each other off and trying to hog the mike like nobody’s business.
One last thing, I don’t know if having that black and whit stud-muffin sketch of your head should really be next to the video footage of the real you. Just saying.
All in all, well worth the three minutes. Good show, sir.
Is that your Martin Scorsese impression? I love it!
You sound nothing like how I would have thought you would sound if I would have ever thought what you sounded like.
Does that make any sense?
Wow, it’s like a weeks worth of blog entries in 3.5 minutes. Oh and BTW, if they’re going to play the clip in 1:85 aspect ratio, you might want to ask them to shoot it that way (unless you like having the short and squat look.)
Who’s the old guy?
BTW, Poland, your commentary in this clip (which I liked…fun and loose) is the first time I’ve seen anyone equate Disney studio layoffs with the Pixar deal. Care to elaborate?
So the real question is… when you have lunch with David Poland, who foots the bill? 🙂 Pretty cool site, actually.
So when you have lunch with David Poland, who foots the bill? 🙂
Nice site…they give you a really prominent ad on the front page… my only comment/question is who is this site designed for? Industry people or casual filmgoers?
Of course, you know now that you won’t be able to leave your house cause all of the blog crazies will now know what you look like. I hope someone has a video camera when DP is being chased down the street by hundreds of angry Brokeback MOuntain fans. 🙂
That was great fun seeing you do your thing. And yes, you do talk quickly!
That’s so weird… sometimes I make a comment but it doesn’t appear… so I think maybe I didn’t hit “post”…but then it appears.
BTW, did anyone notice that they have the entire movie of Super Size Me on there, too? That’s kind of weird, isn’t it, cause wouldn’t that affect Morgan Spurlock (and Roadside Attractions’) DVD sales?
He doesn’t sound like a “Fijian Wrestler”!
Love it, just simply love it!
Good lord, when I heard David talk, my gaydar just went DING DING DING DING!!! Either I need to fix that thing or there’s actually a reason for all the Brokeback Mountain bashing in the past. A little self-hating, perhaps?
I’m impressed with the 5 Star Rating.
Is “Lunch With David” better than “My Dinner With Andre” though? I’ll have to see Andre again to decide, but I do think it needs a hot blonde waitress leaning over and serving the lunch somewhere in there just to make it more realistic and to give the piece a sense of place.
And how exactly does a straight person respond to people saying he is on their gaydar? I’m pretty sure there isn’t a good answer.
Just wait ’til I start quoting Sondheim!
Just smile.
well my gaydar didn’t go off…he’s just sorta southern California-ized. Just hope Dave isn;t too So-Cal-ized…don;t want to hear about his spa and plastic surgery experiences.
Nice superfly funkster opening/closing music…and my goodness. Dave talks faster than a firing Kalashnikof. I was starting to wonder if there was an alternate respiratory passageway where Dave could take in oxygen and expel his gaseous cellular wastes as the vocalstream appeared uninterrupted by anything so unimportant as breathing! Rock on. It was fun. I couldn’t do that.
Dave, I liked what you had to say but I think I missed some of it because you talked faster than I could listen. Just breath, man.
By the way, I really had no clue what you looked like before watching this; I am now surprised to find myself thinking of you as a hottie.
Women and gay men agree: speedtalkin’ Dave is attractive! Don’t let it go to your head.
A bravura performance! OK, David, let us in on your acting secrets: How many takes did you do — or should we start calling you “One-Take Poland”? Did you memorize, improvise, or use cue cards taped to your waiter’s back, like Marlon Brando? Your fans want to know!
I have been struggling to remember what actor David’s kinetic eyebrows reminded me of….and it’s harvey Lembeck in Stalag 17!
But I am sure that Dave isn’t nearly as annoying as “Harry Shapiro”!
🙂