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” â 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 â 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 â he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” â and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging â I was with her at that moment â 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 namedâ” “Yeah, sure â 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 Iâm on the phone with you now, after all thatâs 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 didnât seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereâs not a case of that. He wasnât using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had â if that were what the accusation involved â 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. Iâm not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, âYou know, itâs not this, itâs thatâ? Because â let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, thatâs what it lacked. Thatâs 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
Congrats to JMc…were any of those 4000 even remotely positive? đ
Hah.
lol
DP, you get so many comments it would be impossible to get copies of each and every one but unfortunately, that is the only way to stay on top of SPAM so far. They’re getting so good at it. I was stunned to see that there actually is such a thing as 20 inch strap on with a…nevermind.
But no comments about Spam Dooley, really the only poster here with firsthand knowledge of the business. He comes across as a whiny clod because of his arrogance, but he is smarter than Jeffmcm and the rest of the robots any day of the week.
I know in secret that you call your commenters the “trained chimps” David but honestly- shouldn’t you thank Spam for forcing your endgame hand regarding that bizarre little masturbatory (one hand at that) exercise called “Lunch with David’? You are never going to replace Ebert- you simply aren’t jouyous enough.
I am Jeff Well’s Ego.
I really like the TCIFF pics. A friend of mine was down there for the festival and spent time socializing with Jasmine G. and the Hon. Michael M., etc. If you have more pictures please feel free to send them to me (maybe she’s even in some of them) and I will forward them on to her.
You used to be so amusing, Spammy… before you started making lies up about me, assuring me that everything you claim to know is suspect.
But keep blowing that horn. And can you pass me one of those bananas?
Funny, David, you don’t look jouyous!
I am Cadavra and I’m here all week!
David, don’t you wish you had given Spam the shout-out instead of me?
That’s what he does. That’s all he does! You can’t stop him. He can’t be bargained with. He can’t be reasoned with. He doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
lonelydave49
I know you won’t take the bait, even though as my chimp you asked about bananas. But here we go-
Name ONE lie that I made up about you.
Can you?
I am Spam Dooley and I doubt you.
So when he gets to 5000 comments does Jeff get his own MCN column? I’m trying to think of the endgame here!
Spam Murphy. For someone who’s so connected in the industry you sure spend a lot of time trolling and even more time worrying about the fijian wrestler’s career. I come and go from this forum because I have to – I actually produce. From the sounds of it, you’re always lurking close by, seething with envy over Dave’s desire to switch mediums.
You are Spam Murphy and having met you, I can say you are a doughy mess who should exercise more.
Let’s see a Top 10 commenter list. How much is J-Mc ahead by?
I’m willing to bet that, before he was chased away in shame, Hicksville was actually in first place but it didn’t register because he used twenty different names.
Doctor
I love the idea of the Fijan wrestler. You haven’t met me because well, I don’t exercise at all and yet am surprisingly fit. And I don’t produce- movies at least. And I am not an Irish B Lister.
But tell us- WHAT have you produced? I bet it is terrificly stellar.
I am Spam Dooley and I am not Spock!
Those must’ve been oldies from me. I hope I’m always welcome. If not, I hear this guy Bob has a great deal on Natural Male Enhancement…