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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’m surprised so few people think Prada has a shot at costume design. I think it’ll win the category.
Likewise for Peter OToole, precursors be damned, I think he’s getting an oscar.
best picture matches pretty much what I think, Departed barely in front with an easy LMS upset in the cards. Babel is skulking around while Iwo Jima is waiting to snipe any survivors.
I foresee a big split and spread this year, with Dreamgirls taking about four oscars and Departed only getting 3 or so, and none of the other BP noms getting more than 2.
It’s a fascinating race, one of the most interesting in a long time.
Prada doesn’t have a chance at costume design it will be betw. Marie Antoinette and DG, becasuse — they were designs made from Scratch. Prada ‘borrows’ clothes already made and they’re clothes by various designers.
Don’t you remember Streep saying at the GG that the producers donated the clothes to a woman’s shelter?
I don’t know (or care) anything about fashion, but the designs in The Devil Wears Prada made the women look like crazy stick-apes. None of the people who were supposed to look ‘attractive’ were.
When did DP start predicting The Departed? I feel like he hasn’t really given us his thoughts on where this wide-open best picture race stands. I hope the Departed wins, but thought the CW was on the side of LMS.
Maybe I missed a 20 Weeks to Oscar where he discusses this?
Oh, please tell me that Best Live Action Short won’t go to West Bank Story – it’s horrible. I really hope that it’s frontrunner status here is based on people thinking that its premise sounds cute and not on actually having seen it.
This is the very first week he’s been predicting The Departed – all along he has said, “it will never win best pic.” Unless, of course, you’ve all forgotten our endless arguments on the subject. It still might not win, but it’s interesting to note his turn-around.
The Devil Wears Prada deserves the Best Costume Design oscar just as much as Marie Antoinette or Dreamgirls or Curse of the Golden Flower. Without the costumes that movie would have been dead in the water.
I think Patricia Field can indeed win. Yes, the costume branch has a contemporary bias, but that’s the branch. The entire academy who votes could see the designs as way more character-creating than anything else nominated.
Ugh. Why is An Inconvenient Truth going to win Best Documentary? It’s documenting a speech, not global warming. Completely different.
Oh, and I’m surprised so many people think Gustavo Santaolalla will win Original Score again. Especially considering it’s not even that great (and heavily borrowed, apparently). I think that category is between The Queen and Pan’s.
And the Art Direction of Dreamgirls does NOT warrent a third Oscar for Myrhe in five years (Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha being the others). How complex is it to design a stage?
Funny how Dreamgirls and Pan’s Labyrinth are the two films that could easily be the film with the most Oscars at the end of the night.