Warming Up For The Dance
Heading in…
Looking back…
You can still walk into Zoom and eat without a reservation… and park your car on the street!!!
The machine roars slowly to life…
May 8, 2024
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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
But, how many days until Dakota Fanning getting raped gets it’s BIG SCREEN DEBUT?!
Not to be a pill, but enough with the rape jokes already. They’re never funny, but now they’re just old. And the girl is like 12, and trying to do something serious. I’d think her talent alone would be enough that people would check the flick out before making fun of it. All the jokes are really disgusting.
I’m just waiting for the story of how Poland and Wells met in a dark alley, and only one lived to tell the tale. Wagers?
Poland all the way
Yeah, just compare any picture of Wells with Poland running shirtless and blue through his front yard. One is a degenerating hipster who’s never had to do a day of hard work in his life, the other has the energy of a cougar – and a lower center of gravity, which helps with those wrestling moves.
Meanwhile, while I disagree that ‘rape jokes are never funny’, the Dakota Fanning ones have run their course until the movie has been seen.
I bet Nikki Finke could kick both their asses (and make them like it).
It looks very cold there, Davie. You should have asked me to come along to keep you warm throughout the festival.
Waterbucket, you are such a slut. You said you’d come to Dallas to keep me warm while I’m snowed in here. I’m ready to take back every nice thing I ever said about Brokeback Mountain.
This slut will only serve as warming device for free movie screenings, free swags, and access to hot parties with celebs. Show me all of them in Dallas and I’ll show you some good time.
And yes mom, I’m still in college and getting good grades despite my sluttiness.
I’m a little bit uncomfortable.
“I bet Nikki Finke could kick both their asses (and make them like it).”
hahahaha. That was a good one.