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 thin kit was you, Poland. You sabotaged Wells.
The Drudge Report is linking to a Hollywood Elsewhere item on Dreamgirls. I bet the traffic was too much for the site.
Oh Poland, man…the Quentin Crisp pic is ..OUCH.
Damn boy…you are vicious.
“And riddle me this… is a 20 minute clip, some free hors deurves, a hand shake and a smile from a singing diva”
Yes.
We don’t make the rules. We report on them.
“And riddle me this… is a 20 minute clip, some free hors deurves, a hand shake and a smile from a singing diva…really enough to lock up the Oscar season for people now?”
Yes.
We don’t make the rules. We report on them.
Sorry for the double post…thought I caught it. Though I’ll elaborate here so this isn’t a space-filling “sorry for the double post” post.
I think pimping a movie like this is always a good bet, and once events like this start sprouting up with oscar voters in attendance, the deal will be done.
Of course, I’m talking just nominations here, mind you. And I realize your comment was in response to Jeffrey’s Dreamgirls vs. Flags thing.
But yeah, as for the song and dance flick, they’re buttering everyone up nice and good.
I thought a 20-minute clip and some hors d’oeuvres were the exact same elements that had led Mr. Poland to be raving about Dreamgirls for all these months.
“The Drudge Report is linking to a Hollywood Elsewhere item on Dreamgirls. I bet the traffic was too much for the site.”
Not sure why they didn’t link to the original story on the Envelope. Funny ol’ world, the internet.
Vicious. Just vicious.
I’m sorry I posted this at Risky Biz too, but I need instant gratification, so I need to report it here too, that I think I may have tracked down the first actual English language press release, err, English language link to the Japanese trailer from someone named Selina, rank Boot Camp. Joined: 02 May 2006, Posts: 2. Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: Official Japanese Trailer ONLINE!
It’s embellished by Voodoo65, from Tokyo, rank Private First Class who adds that it aired on Japanese tv a day earlier, and he provides English translation.
It’s neither here, nor there, I’m just a social epidemiologists by nature and things don’t just come from nowhere, especially not Japan.
http://www.the-pacific-war.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=947
Uh… didn’t you realize…both stories are oooooold news masquerading as new news?
Does anyone actually think something changed Monday night?
If I’m not mistaken, last Monday made it one Monday closer to Monday Night Football.
I don’t take credit
I AM CREDIT
I am everything in the world that is good
I am Spam Dooley and Welles is my bitch
What didn’t change Monday night? Free hors deurves and new movie trailer on Japanese TV? Wait, you knew about the trailer and didn’t run it? I’m gonna suggest you get a subscription to Play7.com and meet real movie people.
Nothing necessarily CHANGED Monday night. I never said that. After all, when I posted something about the event I started by stating:
“The folks at Dreamworks/Paramount CONTINUED their amazingly cunning sell of