Can’t wait another 11 days to see the first episode of The Tudors, Season 2 on Showtime? Want to get into the soup?
Actually, this is the first episode of the series I’ve watched from start to finish. Pretty good. Not as much about sex as the ads suggest.
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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
Nice. The first spam post.
I get dozens of pitches every day, Mutiny. If I didn’t think this might be of interest to readers, I wouldn’t have run it. But thanks for the spittle.
No, Dave, I meant the way it was written. It reads like a spam e-mail or a spam comment. The language of it.
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Actually, HBO and Showtime will be fighting it out on historical miniseries (actually The Tudors is a series). Both are airing on Sunday nights now (I think). HBO got a headstart last week with John Adams so Showtime apparently posted The Tudors early online and on Showtime On Demand. I watched The Tudors last season. HBO’s John Adams is really good. I think Showtime smells blood with HBO losing The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire and ditching Deadwood. Now all they have left of note is that sex show and Big Love, which isn’t half bad. Of course, there’s always Bill Maher. And since PBS doesn’t want to be left out, they’re going all Masterpiece Theatre on us for the next month. Say what you want, but it all beats American Idol.
My wife and I tried watching the first season of The Tudors but could not get into it. Rhys Meyers is absolutely awful in the few episodes we managed to sit through.
The Reaper continues his work: Paul Scofield today.
Lot of hot chicks on this show but nothing can compare to OTHER BOLEYN GIRL.
That OWNED.
Though Bana was kind of a rod in it; Portman and Johansson catfighting over his dull ass, and he’s acting like he’s all put out. Like, get on that shit, Chopper.
Are you havin’ a larf? You’re havin’ a larf!
I only saw A Man for All Seasons for the first time about six months ago, but Scofield was excellent in it, as he was in Quiz Show and plenty of others. RIP.
The one Showtime show I really like, which no one else seems to watch, is Brotherhood. It’s similar to The Wire in feel (and audience neglect), but set in the white workingclass city of Providence. It’s worth checking out.
i’m a big fan of “brotherhood.” i like it better than “sopranos” (which of course is the hbo series i more liken it to). i believe they already got a third season pickup, but don’t quote me.
Stella, you make it sound like Jonathan Rhys Myers was ever good in the first place. His woman-chasing ninny routine is stale.
“My wife and I tried watching the first season of The Tudors but could not get into it. Rhys Meyers is absolutely awful in the few episodes we managed to sit through.”
I’m with you there, I really couldn’t stand the show. Pretty boring show. I never felt any connection with any of the characters.