Or will he (and his movie) end up in an awards ditch?
(Some say he’d happily take the ditch in order to get Marty Scorsese his Oscar. But I think he’d like to survive this version of The Departed.)
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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
Okay, clue me in…
What?
This is producer graham King’s “cameo” in “The Departed” as one of the thugs in Billy Costigan’s family, Jackie Costigam.
Ergo, will Jackie Costigan (King) win Best Picture?
Dave is so cute sometimes with his inside talk.
Graham King looks like a gangster in real life.
IMO, a week from now, The Departed will have the big MO.
All big fat guys basically look the same.
I seriously thought that was Poland himself for a minute.
Hey! Don’t call us fat! We prefer “differently-caloried.”
I thought you were a skeleton.
how about ‘differently-metabolic’ Americans.
Tell me about it. We’re just big boned, that’s all.
Well, we also accept “horizontally-challenged.”
Shouldn’t that be ‘horizontally gifted’?
No, that’s something entirely different. 😉 (But I am that, too!)
i am now horizontally gifted since the LAX rental car place ran out of normal cars and gave me a mustang. I’ll try not to hit any fat people Cadavra (but I AM insured I’m told).
I put money yesterday on Departed–all the awards it’s nominated for. Probably a big money-losing mistake. It’s the last time I spring for Marty.
Lota: Departed wins two (Marty and Monahan) and loses three (Picture, Wahlberg, Thelma). You’ll only be out a little bit.
And as long as you’re in town, if you’re anywhere near downtown, go to Cassell’s for lunch. Best frickin’ burgers in the world. Bill Goldman knows it, too.
don’t know if I’ll get downtown, but was very glad to see Rome -Open City tonight, despite floating Mac subtitles. I still understood my Italian and was very pleased with myself.
i lost a bet aside from Oscars. I bet R-OC would sell out tonight and it didn;t. Never bet with a jaded Angelino.
nice theater.
Rossellini? Sell out?? In Los Angeles??? BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
jaded Angelino!
jaded Angelino.
Not jaded, just realistic.
yes that’s what my pal said! “this is not Dukes of hazzard…it will not ‘sell out'”
a sad statement