Question Of The (Tues)Day
Who’s next?
Who do you think will be the next big name ot self-immolate and get wall-to-wall coverage on CNN… and what will burn them?
50 words or less, please.
April 26, 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
Uh, unless I missed something, the only thing that’s been on CNN all day has been the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech. So, either I’m not finding out who died recently or you’re equating the Virginia Tech shooting with Don Imus. Maybe you’re not, but this is kind of strange timing to bring up that topic of coversation.
Yeah, who is this about Dave? So sad about the Virginia shootings. I hate people sometimes.
What I wanna know is why the arbitrary word limits. Is the blog too verbose all of a sudden? (19)
And what is he going to do if they go over? BAN US?
wow.
Days before the release of Evan Almighty, Steve Carrell’s home will be raided.
LA Animal Protective Services will be taped by an AP TV news crew carrying cage after cage of starved, blinking monkeys, dogs and carrier pigeons from his filthy basement.
Cuba Gooding Jr. — he’ll freak out about his failing career while in a bank one day to deposit a residual check from his commercial work and while trying to remind the people in line about his Oscar win, he’ll yell “Show me the money!” so much that everyone automatically assumes it’s a bank robbery and hostage situation… the police arrive and hold Cuba off for 37 hours before he finally says something other than “Show Me the Money”…but by then five are dead, and two others are on suicide watch from spending so much time in one place with Gooding.
I wonder if DP will answer the initial question? I was wondering what he was up to with this post as well since Imus seems so last week and all the focus now seems to be on the VA Tech shootings.
(going over 25 now . . . sorry!)
I made the mistake of watching Fox News yesterday and mere hours after the incident some jagoff was on proclaiming that violent video games were responsible for the shootings. The dead haven’t even been identified yet and some asshat has already started exploiting them to further his personal political agenda. After the Sharpton/Jackson exploitation of the Rutgers BB team I’m pretty much disgusted with everyone.
Oops, that was 100 words…
David, just face it: Sometimes the real world steps up and gets in your face, and that’s the only thing you want to talk about. Something very similar is happening over at He Who Shall Not be Named’s site, where a posting about a stupid T-shirt has veered off into a heated discussion about the Virginia Tech tragedy and gun control.
In this case the real world is sneaking is all over the world… I’ve heard about this at every news break on the radio since last night! (am in Belgium)
There! They’re talking about it right now! With the student’s identity…
What a tragic, horrible situation. How could someone just blow up like that and cause so much pain around him?
Re: “wow”, DP, you should know more than anyone that people don’t like being told what to write or how to write it, it’s certainly been one of your principal complaints over the years (oddly, primarily since you’ve been self-employed). Since there doesn’t seem to be any reason for these word limits aside from your own caprice, people are going to resist them.
As I listen to the convocation at V-Tech, I’m shutting down commments on this entry.
Smacking down some of the assumptive stupidity in here seems inapprorpiate. And I can only assume that my timing is flawed for this question.
With due respect, this is not really the place to have a conversation about a mass murder.