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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; that’s the best post you have written about the strike. I do agree that their ideas are stupid. However; they cannot piss off SAG. Thus putting themselves in a vicarious position.
They also could have waited til March. They could have waited. Yet… you always forget one thing and it’s a big thing: THIS IS THE ERA OF TV.
Unless the people are totally stupid and back the producers. The moment they lose their shows. The moment they do not have anything more to watch but Gladiators and Idol. This will be the moment the strike ends.
>>>>Thus putting themselves in a vicarious position.
WTF? Well at least we know that you’re not a WGA member.
The word you want there is precarious not vicarious. Ask Santa to bring you a dictionary for Christmas this year, IO.
i think when it comes to television, people are sheep ….. sure, they’ll miss ‘their’ shows but they won’t turn off their sets …. and they’ll just miss their shows until they get used to the crappy reality shows they’re handed (and if the strike lasted, say, two years, they’d miss their favorite crappy reality show when scripted stuff came back)…..
and, btw… judging from the reality pilots that have been pouring in my office over the past week, ‘crappy’ is a very kind word……
Has IOIOIOI ever given the meaning behind his “Heat” nickname for David? If not, will he do so now?
Grandcosmo; it’s a freakin type. You may or may not be a right, but you are a dickhole. You can go crawl back into your hole now, troll. You really think that you can play with me? Really? Ha.
Scoot; this is the era of TV. It’s not the era of film. People will be pissed when their shows do not come back. Seriously, wake-up to the world you are living in. It would be appreciated by all of the people who spend tens of thousands of hours of their lives loving TV and loathing crappy reality shows on it’s way to replacing shows that are 9 out of 10 times better than any film that has come out over the last 5 years.
Finally Ju, Heat has a tendency to rock his shirt open. While he also hails from Miami. So… Miami… Heat… and there you have the explanation for his nickname. Due to his love of rocking his shirt open, and showing the world his manly chest hair.
Good lord; the typos above are horrible. It is the internet. These things happen :D!
Well I agree with Heat on this one. From what I see the WGA is cutting off its nose to spite its face now. Kneecapping the industry during the holidays is wrongheaded enough, but making a play for the ghetto of reality TV is akin to the Corleone family getting into narcotics. Believe me, I work in reality. It has nothing to do with the integrity of writing and writers. We don’t create weird people, we cast them.
And yes, giving ANY production a get out of jail free card would be a declaration of defeat.
io — i’m pretty much in touch with the world in which i live… and, as a twenty year vet of the tca (and i’m sure, in your infinite wisdom, you’re aware of what that entails) i think i have a handle on what hard-core tv watchers go through…
i do agree with dp and crow that a ‘get out of jail free card’ is a really bad move….
io — i’m pretty much in touch with the world in which i live….and, as a twenty year vet of the t.c.a., i think i have a handle on what hard-core t.v. watchers go through….. so i stand by my post….
i do agree with dp and crow that a ‘get out of jail free’ card for anyone is a huge mistake….
grrrr….sorry ’bout the double-double