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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
Ah, the joys of home schooling… allows you to spend the rest of your life unable to communicate with other people, let alone those of the opposite sex. (No, I don’t know this from experience, smart asses!) 🙂
Dude, that is beyond funny.
When I flew out Tuesday (of the Oakland airport) that kid flew in and we all cheered when he came by…after the 2 security guards carrying his trophy “announced” his arrival. Had I seen this first I would have punched that brat in the eye…
As the father of a high-functioning autistic child who’s easily distracted by numbers, I’m about 75-80% sure that this boy is on the autistic spectrum. If you ask my son a question that he hasn’t trained himself to answer, he never quite knows what to say either.
Not to bum anybody out, but there’s a difference between a mere social misfit and a child struggling to overcome a developmental disorder.
Noel, you’re exactly right. He’s probably an Aspy.
Yeah, from that interview, he doesn’t strike me as maladjusted; it seems as if he truly has some sort of condition, possibly autism, but I’m not a doctor, so I have no idea.
I can’t understand laughing at him.
Everybody’s got to be autistic or ADD or dyslexic these days. Whatever happened to just being a socially awkward dweeb? Maybe there’s a diagnosis for that as well.
Wapner! I wanna watch Wapner!
Maybe it’s because he’s a _kid_. On CNN, where apparently nothing more interesting is happening to report on.
Hahaha, let’s all laugh at the nerd! Somebody go steal his lunch money.
Of course, if this nerdy kid grows up to be Bill Gates….
Hey, do you think the real Bill Gates employs people who do nothing but go around the world and kick the crap out of people who used to make fun of him? Just wondering.
It’s funny… I’m not laughing at the kid… I’m laughing at the poor interviewers who are trying so hard to make it work.
I guess everything is a matter of perspective.
David: Once again, I feel your pain. I remember a few movie junkets I attended where pre-teens were brought in for round-table interviews. After enduring a couple of these interminable encounters, I learned to simply pretend to go to the bathroom… in the hall… out the door… down the stairs…
Nobody ever asked why you were pretending to go to the bathroom in the hall?
I claimed I was going to a bathroom down the hall… Unfortunately, this would work only when the interviews were in conference rooms or ballrooms. I was out of luck when I was in a suite with its own bathroom (except, of course, when I waited until someone ELSE was in the bathoom — then I could fake saying, gee, I really gotta go, I’ll be right back….)
Maybe they uh, shouldn’t trot the kid out there for interviews without prepping him? Why shouldn’t I laugh at bad parenting? I see it everyday. Maybe they should look out for their kid instead of setting him up for failure and embarrassment. Hmm? Maybe?
Oh, don’t get me wrong– I would never say that the parents don’t deserve a huge slap in the face. I think we can all agree on that.
“Ah, the joys of home schooling…”
As someone who’s actually been around home-schoolers, I can say that your sentiment is more latent anti-religious bigotry than anything reality-based. In my experience, the ratio of those kids who can communicate with adults on a reasonable level is higher among home-schooled kids. For socialization, there’s still such a thing as siblings and neighborhood friends, and at least in my community, home-schoolers frequently gather for activities. That, and introverted/extroverted behavior is established well before kids hit school-age.
There are clearly certain social drawbacks, but the generalization that home schoolers = socially awkward is a canard.
Wait mysteryperfect, enlighten someone who doesn’t have kids and who was forced to go to a crappy public school along with everyone else: why is home-schooling mockery necessarily anti-religious? Are kids home-schooled for primarily religious reasons?
I’ve never heard that before either. I’ve thought of home-schooled kids to be just as likely to be children of non-religious hippie-ish parents as very religious conservatives.
Glad you said ‘in my experience’, Mysteryperfecta, because there’s really no other way to gauge something as complicated as social engagement/awkwardness.
When you make fun of home schooled kids you make the baby jesus cry…
Let’s see how well the home schooled kids do in a science competition…
That seemed way out of line, a1amoeba… and somehow, very funny.
It’s by far not always the case, but some people keep their kids out of school because of religious reasons in the sense that they don’t want teachers teaching things they consider “wrong” like evolution. I hope this doesn’t bring about 60 responses about whether it really is wrong. THIS IS NOT ABOUT THAT. Someone asked a question, I’m anwering it. They also may not want to be “corrupted” by the atmosphere school peers can provide like pressure to do drugs, early familiarity with sex, or heck, even the use of SWEAR WORDS (Dun dun dun)! Not saying all religious people are like that, but that is a reason some of them do and what brings about that idea. I’m dating a homeschhooled person right now and the reason is far from religion (The reason is personal for her and I’m not going to divulge it).
Actually, the only home-schooled person I personally know is the teen-age daughter of unreconstructed hippie types. And she seems to be a very intelligent young lady and a promising artist. And I certainly can’t criticize her musical tastes: Like her parents, she’s a big fan of Donna the Buffalo.
Once again, Feraci opens his maw to show what kind of idiot he is.
Maybe if Devin spent some time with people who have real problems he’d be able to spot these things.
God y’all lay-off on the kid. He’s JUST A KID.
WHat nerd kid (or nerd adult for that matter) interviews “well”? They’re into their books and computers, good for them.
Take that link off David, please–it isn;t a movie to critique is it? What kind of world are we living in when peeps choose to highlight nerd kids as if they should be in a circus freak show.
One of my cousins pulled her kids out of school and homeschooled them since her local public school was using emotional blackmail and some pretty stinging verbal cruelty to coerce kids to pray in school and she could not get them to stop (it’s civil rights court case now) so she pulled them out. It can happen if you are in a town of 99% the same religious denomination.
One of my Neighbors homeschooled their two boys since the gangs wouldn;t stop trying to recruit them (the big brother had been a member).
Not everyone has decent, safe, normal state schools to go to and the cost of private education is prohibitive now.
So it would appear there are many reasons for home schooling running the gamut of religious, non-religious, liberal, conservative and pretty much any other dichotomy you want to throw in there and I’m not the only one who doesn’t get the “latent anti-religious bigotry” remark.
I interviewed Harrison Ford. Trust me, this kid is EASY.