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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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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 don’t know what to say.
Does somebody find this humorous?
Peter O’Toole’s death?
Endgame= Mental Home.
I am NonPlussed and Sad!
Getting all black and white and no Good German jokes?
Go cry somewhere else, Spam.
Spammy… could you start putting “First!” in your posts? It just would seem so fitting.
Of all the movie blogs in all the internets of all the world, Spam comments on Mr. Poland’s.
*slams down glass*
Davie Po, I was reading this old article on you so who’s the famous actress that you claimed to have bedded? Give me some hint.
Maude.
But I am not trying to be first.
Anyways….
Ignoring your ongoing hatred of my cleverness, class, can we see by a show of hands who thought there was ANYTHING clever or funny in that segment? What was it and why?
I am Jeff Wells’ Ego.
I liked it but it’s not worth explaining and missing gym and screenings over, but since I have comedy on my sched, maybe I’ll have a reason for you on your desk Monday.
I read this site everyday. I like Poland. I think he’s a very good entertainment industry analyst. I think he’s a pretty good film critic. But his sense of humor is lousy.
Spam, you’re not clever.
This website has become very depressing.
Perhaps if you offered a suggestion of something you’d like to be discussing, Crow…
Was there really any doubt about Happy Feet? Hollywood has been bowing down to the “Feel Good” older chick factor for years now. See: 1998.
Oh! And was it just me or was Eddie Murphy pissed off the entire night?
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Don;t want Peter Otoole in the same thought as death, even though his liver must be the size of a pea.
We can maybe talk about Lawrence of Arabia instead, but then, that wouldn’t very current. Still it’s better than a death that hasn’t arrived yet.
Peter O’Toole can have a laugh at himself. I thought Ellen picking on Borat in the audience was priceless. Ms. Winslet looked shocked considering there was no campaign for LC. And First Look came through in the end for The Dead Girl stealing best picture, it was fabulous.
TH, I sure wish I knew what you were talking about.
Later, tomatto. Read about The Dead Girl in The Hot Button and elsewhere.
You could have said “The AFI wrap-up event” and made things so much clearer. That is, assuming that’s what you’re talking about. But no…
I thought it was funny and all – nice to see Poland totally lose his nut but I do take issue with the Helen Mirren part. She still looks good naked or not. Certainly better than most of the idiot women working in Hollywood. I just didn’t get the point. She would never show up naked at an awards show for one thing. Sally Kirkland maybe, Mirren? Not a chance.