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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
Which means this is now GUARANTEED to sweep the Oscars next year… 🙂
I’mm 99% certain you spent way too much time on that.
And it’s not the first time, I believe, he’s written a review in some kind of iambic pentameter (if that term even applies correctly to this context) to that horrible and crappy song.
I want to say this may be the third time.
Dave really does seem to go Loopy during festivals.
Yes, they are exhausting schedules, but everyone also does seem to be drunk 24/7 from partying and schmoozing too. (I haven’t been in awhile)
To paraphrase another bad cultural saying from the same time period:
Kinda makes you go hmmm……?
Shouldn’t the headline read “Billy Joel Reviews Bobby”? Who’s Bill?
You keep that up and you’ll never get that guest shot on _____ & Roeper! 🙂
Zing!
For what it’s worth, I loved the review through song. I actually read it while singing!
We Didn’t Start the Fire is one of the worst novelty songs of all time. I couldn’t read this review because I can’t stand to have that insipid melody in my head.
that may have been the worst review i’ve ever read.
maybe it’s fitting since the movie is supposedly shit. but MAN, that was a really tough review to get through. like a really bad saturday night live song done by jimmy fallon
ugh
Bah, you people just can’t keep a tune.
Funny review.
I’m not surprised at the emerging reaction. Estevez has always appeared to me as a fairly serious guy who wants to do good, serious work as a director but just doesn’t really have ‘it’.
All three of his directing films have been good ideas but poor execution. I want to like him as a director and he seems like a good guy, but…not surprised.
They really were just selling this based on the subject matter.
Billy Joel. A great singer. Not much of a movie reviewer.
The enormous cast of stars and has-beens is also its big selling point.
i can;t click on that link as I hate HATE HATE that song. I guess I should be grateful you didn;t use something by Tiffany or the Sugababes who have made great inroads into the annals of Horrible talentless.
Why are you dissing on the Sugababes. They’re one of the few pop groups atm who are, you know, good.
Anyway. As I said in the other entry, Dave’s word at the moment is just as valid as anyone else’s so I’ll wait until November rolls around.
cmon Kamel–they are cutesy interchangeable & replaceable girls who have less singing talent and style than the Spice Girls.
The boy and girl group configurations have never impressed me even though Robbie WIlliams is a good entertainer.
I guess the Sugababes are better than Ashley and Jessice who really are 15%-ers.
^^^You mean they became that after they lost Mutya Buena, one of the original girls, right? She was something.