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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
is that 8900 dollars for the Hottie and the Nottie on 111 screens?
Am i reading that right.
Jesus.
Pretty much expected for Hottie, but I didn’t forsee Vince Vaughn’s little pet project tanking so horribly. That has to a solid blow to his massive ego. Ouch.
Somebody get Owen Wilson on the phone. ‘Wedding Crashers 2’ anyone?
Everything else is kind of blah.
It looks like “FG” and “WHRJ” both hit their targets, even if those Friday estimates are a tad on the low side of initial projections.
Stunningly bad opening for Vince Vaughn’s concert-road movie/doc/whatzit. And to think that two companies actually got into a bidding war over distribution rights at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival! I’m sure that it’ll do a lot better on dvd (really: what doesn’t?)…and for what it’s worth, this is a highly entertaining ride. It deserved better.
Hopefully Friday’s $80-per-screen average for Paris Hilton’s latest will finally put the kibbosh on her “acting” career.
“In Bruges” had a decent limited bow, but I’m kind of surprised “The Band’s Visit” didn’t do a little better. WOM should be able to keep “BV” playing in arthouses for awhile: it’s a real audience pleaser.
Not really sure how far Focus can take “Bruges. I’m sure that it’ll pick up a (small, if devoted) cult following over time, however.
Safe to say there will be no 3rd week of Hannah Montana.
movieman
your use of anacronyms makes your post really confusing to read.
what’s an “anacronym”?
did you mean anachronistic or perhaps anagram?
hmmm.
it pretty much looks like typical blogspeak to me…albeit a tad more grammatical, lol.
i meant acronym.
with all the “FG” and “BV”, its just annoying.
can’t you just type out the name of the film. It’s not like you’re talking about “TAOJJBTCRF”
just following the blogging rules, ang.
abbreviations/punning catch phrases (“SFW”)/etc. are the name of the blog game.
…and are you really so anxious to pick on me that you’re going to complain about my use of acronyms???
call me a moron for liking Vince Vaughn’s movie…or for having the nerve to suggest that “In Bruges” (“IB” to you, lol) might pick up a devoted cult following over time…or having the temerity to hope that no one will have to suffer though a Paris Hilton “performance” ever again…but acronyms? geez.
should i take that as a back-handed compliment because you didn’t pick apart my post this weekend?
i agree with everything you said pretty much. i read your post twice and it just came across as clunky because of the constant use of acronyms.
just one guys opinion.
Vince Vaughn’s film wasn’t promoted well. I saw very few ads for it. Maybe others did?
“Safe to say there will be no 3rd week of Hannah Montana.”
You’re wrong. Many theatres have already committed to an open run.
sorry for getting so defensive before, ang.
i guess i’ve developed a thin skin from blogging on this site, (thanks, Brack!)
just trying to save time…but i’ll try to be a little less acronymy from now on.
but you’ve gotta admit that an acronym sure comes in handy when discussing “Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: Hollywood to the Heartland,” lol.
Wrecktum, Disney always intended the Hannah Montana concert film as a limited run. This will be especially true with 4 new wide releases on Valentine’s Day.
“Wrecktum, Disney always intended the Hannah Montana concert film as a limited run. This will be especially true with 4 new wide releases on Valentine’s Day.”
It’s on only 600 theaters to begin with (all 3D). Many of these theaters have already agreed to extend the run. Trust me, some screens will be playing the movie for weeks to come.
Movieman, I believe the full title is actually Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: Hollywood to the Heartland–The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Or for you, VVWWCS:HTTH–TVOTDT.
Well, **** me!
I guess the full title of Vaughn’s movie even beats “CHMEFMHAFTH” then!
Btw, that’s an acronym for “Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Fine True Happiness,” a truly surreal (and surreally awful) 1969 flick directed by and starring Tony Newley. Originally rated X, it would probably be PG-13 today…not that we’ll ever know for sure since chances of it being released on dvd are practically zilch. Too bad. I have warm and fuzzy memories of seeing “Heironymus Merkin” on a drive-in double-feature with “Interlude” (Oskar Werner/Barbara Ferris) in May ’69 when I was a precocious little tyke.
George Jessel, Milton Berle, Joan Collins (then Mrs. Newley), Stubby Kaye and va-va-voom Playboy Playmate Connie Kreski also starred. Just typing that makes me excited, lol.
…and truly, madly, deeply nostalgic.
How about “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade”, a quite good movie from the director of the first Lord Of The Flies movie adaptation.
Movieman, are you going to say anything about the South Lake Union Trolley or the South Harmon Institute of Technology?
Glenda Jackson is killer in “Marat/Sade,” but the dvd transfer definitely needs an upgrade. The one I got from Netflix was a barely watchable disaster.
I saw a lot of promotion for VVWWCS:HTTH–TVOTDT on Home Box Office (HBO) but I must not have been watching closely because up until this week I thought they were promoting it as an upcoming HBO comedy special.
In fifty years, ‘LOL’ and ‘BFF’ will be anacronyms.
Did anyone else get “H.R. Pufnstuf” vibes from “The Spiderwick Chronicles”?
“i guess i’ve developed a thin skin from blogging on this site, (thanks, Brack!)”
LOL. What did I do to you?
I like how it says:
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I don’t mean to be the fussy old school marm here, but what you people are talking about are initials, not acronyms. An acronym has to be a new pronouncable word. NASA, NATO, MILF, AIDS….
To keep it about movies, GWTW (while easier to type than Gone With the Wind) takes longer to say.
Say them both and count the syllables. Of course, if you’re from the South, the two “W”s will be 3 syllables each, not just 2.
…not that there’s anything wrong with “H.R. Pufnstuf;” it’s fantastic kitsch.
But the creatures and fantasy world of “Spiderwick” look more like Sid and Marty Krofft’s late 60s tubeshow than “Potter,” “Narnia,” Terry Gilliam or “The NeverEnding Story.”
I kinda liked that.
Trivia note: the director of the 1970 “Pufnstuf” feature film spin-off starring (I shit you not) “Mama” Cass Elliott, had one of the all-time great director names in H’woof history: Hollingsworth Morse. If I didn’t know that old Hollings (born 1910) was an industry vet whose credits date back to the earliest days of television, I would’ve sworn the name was a pseudonym concocted by the Kroffts. And “Pufnstuf” was Morse’s only “big-screen” helming gig.
Yeah, acronyms are only called acronyms when the letters make a new word. RSPCA is not an acronym, NASA is. It’s silly, but true.
Wow, $80 average on Hottie and $130 average on that Vince Vaughn movie mean that there were quite literally cinemas around America where not one person went to see them.
Which is hilarious.
The Vaughn movie was picked up by Lionsgate over a year ago and basically released by obligation.
Wow. An obligation flick. Trippy.
I think the Vaughn movie is Picturehouse.