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Sorry… slow news week… slow heat stroke… slow…
Toronto is coming… but that’ll just piss some of you off, no?
May 18, 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
Why don’t you post some Snow White porno? Eradicate the remainder of your audience’s childhoods?…
Toronto isn’t just coming…it’s already here!
(A friend is shooting a movie there.)
Mutinyposer….
A nose ring? Really?
I would have been pissed, until I learned I will be going back this year. Suddenly, the fest has transformed from a “bloated, pretentious gathering of greedy pigs” to “perhaps the only must-be-there festival on the calendar.”
See you at the first “Atonement” screening …
I took the week off of work! Yay Toronto… nothing like a vacation in my hometown. Films + patios = best week of the year.
What’s your damage Petaluma?…
I’s just messin’ witcha…but really…a nose ring?
I’ve had it for nearly a decade…
Oh, so you got one before everybody jumped on the trend…wait a minute…
Actually, at the time I got it I didn’t know anybody else with a piercing. There had been a bit of that in the mid-’90s, but by the end of the decade most of those who’d gotten them were joining the workforce and removing everything. After I got pierced, it was interesting to spot so many people my age with healed nose dimples. Mainly got it because I was losing my hair, so dyeing wasn’t much of an option anymore. That said…
I did have a mohawk around ’95. A real mohawk — shaved on the sides, Manic Panic red. Not one of these fauxhawk embarrassments people wear today.
Anyhow. Thanks for being so interested in my appearance.
Reminds me of that scene in Baumbachs KICKING AND SCREAMING where the guy asks the girl about her nose ring and she tells him how it got snagged on some guys clothing…then he says, “yeah…I’m probably going to get one…”
Is anything getting buzz in advance of Toronto this year? I’ve heard almost nothing and a lot of talk has been that this is going to be another fairly uneventful year.