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
I keep hearing Wednesday.
So can Gil Cates breathe easy if there’s a Wednesday ratification or even the 10 day one? Or does he still ask for a waiver to get Jon and friends writing on Sunday?
sweet jesus. they are wringing every last ounce of nothing out of this story.
WHAT DAY WILL THE STRIKE END?
MONDAY? TUESDAY? THURSDAY?
As if the day the strike ends, the birds come out singing, rainbows stretch across the sky and everyone skips back to work.
“As if the day the strike ends, the birds come out singing, rainbows stretch across the sky and everyone skips back to work.”
mmmhhno.
Not everybody. My show has been canceled. Lots of shows actually.
There will be less work out there.
But that’s OK. As long as few writers can have that 100 dollars more in their pocket.
Seems fair to me.
Not that anybody cares, anyway.
11/11
11:00
It’s good, the scabs get 2 extra days.
I am just curious as to how the TV studios rectifying everything with their audience. Do they bring shows back in July or August? Will we have ridiculously over-long seasons to make up for what we lost this season? I just want these schmucks to get the ball rolling on the FALL.
BTLine, that was sarcasm. I guess i didnt lay it on thickly enough.
IOI, most audiences across the country haven’t really noticed. They’ve been watching American Gladiators and mid-season starters.
Mutiny: Damn, but that made me laugh. Wonder how many others caught it?
oh man.
it’ll end Wed. or Thurs., and every lazy newswriter will get to do variations on Valentines Day.
Writers and Studios Kiss and Make Up
Studios decide they can’t quit the Writers
etc
etc
etc
I believe the “Back to Work” instruction will come before 9PM on Tuesday night, if not earlier.
This will allow most of the writing staff members on TV shows back into their offices on Wednesday morning.
In the meantime, while no pickets are going on, the writer/producer types and showrunners will be working out the schedule of exactly how many episodes each of these shows can produce, and when we can expect to air them.
Well, Ronald Harwood told the BAFTA audience that he is “no longer on strike”, so…