By David Poland poland@moviecitynews.com
Dueling Clocks
United Hollywood
AMPTP
And while I am here… a response to the AMPTP “Dollars & Sense” silliness…
Dollars & Sense
May 6, 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
Heat they arent as hardcore as you are and you refuse to accept this fact. They apparently want nickels and dimes more than dollars. Yes it’s a foolish strategy, but it’s their strategy.
So, the rumor on the TMZ message boards is that David Poland is………GAY! I knew it all the time. Just curious. Are you a top or a bottom? LOL!
Yeah… that’s bullshit. Now take your ass on somewhere else. You will not like what you will come across here. Go back to the depths. BE GONE!
Suchie, I’ve read three entries at the Hot Blog this evening and in all three you’ve made jokes about a) David being gay and b) Homosexuality in general.
I’d kindly ask you to shut the fuck up, but that might be too lenient. So shut the fuck up and piss off to where you came.
Suchie, I’ve read three entries this evening and in all three you’ve made comments about Dave’s sexuality and homosexuality in general. Kindly disappear now please and take your HILARIOUS gay jokes with you.
wow. Sorry about that. I didn’t think it worked the first TWO times so I typed it again much more pleasant-like and… well… there you go.
I actually find Suchie’s comment quite refreshing. The users on this site can often get a bit too high-faluting and intellectual for my liking. It’s good to see that the 13-year-olds who post on Aint it Cool aren’t so intimidated that they can’t pop by from time to time to offer us their valuable insight on Dave’s sexuality.
Snrub,
Last time I checked, this website was dedicated to discussing film in general, and this page in particular was dedicated to discussing the strike. So where does anyone get off on making comments and derogratory remarks about anyone’s orientation?What Suchie said is not refreshing. It is odious.
Pope, you must not have read Snrub’s post beyond the first seven words.
I think that Snrub was being humorous, Pope… but thanks.
Apparently, whatever idiot previously posted the libelous Roger Friedman e-mails on TMZ in the past is posting them again. It’s been addressed here.
I am mostly unhappy that this has become the point of discussion instead of the strike, which is far more important… and real.