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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 bet somebody actually had the job of deciding that drink requires 4 slices (it must be 4!) of pineapple as a garnish.
Anyhow, hope the lobster bites yer ass…
David,
I can only admire the ‘horrible’ conditions you must work in to be able to bring us these reports. Sunny skies, clear blue water on a sandy beach, nice ladies getting you drinks…. I feel your pain….really I do…
David Poland at Ammo equals overload.
David Poland on a loud beach and chest hair and boobs and Chris Rock-not-in-my-movie equals multiple head explosions.
Jar Jar dies, “Sith” beats “Titanic.” So that’d be worth what, another $300 million?
lonelydave49
I have figured out the endgame at last, better than Tamara ever could have explained it.
Gang- wait for it- Dave is hoping to take over from Ebert. This grumpy, pointless reports are his “audition reel.”
I’ll tell you know ld- I’d watch.
I am Spam Dooley and I’ve got the conch, Piggy.
Did anyone see the Lipz Service vlog on ikipz? Who is that girl? Amazing. She was funnier than DP.
Spammy… you keep repeating yourself. Does it seem more true to you each time?
Boy, when they say you’re getting a seat on the water, they really mean it. Good one, Mr. Poland, from the locale to the waitress to the Chris Rock joke, I crown this my favorite.
“I think we’re going to need more wax!!!”
actually confused dave, that is the first time I said anything of the kind
the endgame was never clear before
now it is the only possible point
I am Spam Dooley and I put the lime in the coconut!
Actually, the surf was so loud I could barely hear a damn thing you said!
And that Lipz Service girl? Oh, yeah, hilarious. Let’s rag on Tara Reid and Madonna and Paris Hilton as if that hasn’t been done before. Thanks for trying, sweetie. Next!!