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May 19, 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
“And it was 88% women in the room. And 8% gay men. And me.”
I’m not gay. I am a man. And I very much want another dose of SATC. 2 plus hours is more than a dose so I am a bit worried but I greatly enjoyed the TV show and will plop down my $10 within the first two weeks of release.
A few things:
1. Amanda Seyfriend is not unknown to younger audiences.
2. What is your big issue with gratuitous penis shots?
3. It really is shocking, isn’t it, that it’s 145 minutes long. It is almost the entire length of season five put together!
4. I was unaware Joanna Gleason was in it! I don’t care how small her role is, I looove her!
“carry on”
1. With due respect to a beautiful and talented young lady, she hasn’t been in a high-profile movie since Mean Girls and Big Love ain’t exactly on the WB. Do you really mean to argue she can open a movie?
2. Uh… are you suggesting you want more of them? If it makes you feel any better, I was similarly not in need of a naked Cynthia Nixon or a gratuitous (and too broad to be real… especially in that company) pubic hair joke.
3. Yes. A mediocre season.
4. Joanna Gleason and Candice Bergen in a soft Streep imitation and Daphne Rubin-Vega… all in nothing roles.
To me this movie eerily echoes Hillary Clintons campaign of late. I’m not attracted to the lead in any way shape or form (not so much sexually as the whole persona), both are getting shoved down my throat, I wish they’d both just go away and I can’t wait till it’s over.
I was never a fan of the show obviously.
How’s Jennifer Hudson?
Seyfried also has some currency with those of us who remember her as the ill-fated Lilly Kane on VERONICA MARS. No, she doesn’t open a movie, but she doesn’t hurt, either.
When I saw “Be Kind Rewind” at New Line, they had to turn people away and make others sit on the floor. Same when I saw “Pan’s Labyrinth” back in the day. At the Wednesday screening, they didn’t even fill the empty chairs in the exit row, so the tehater was hardly at capacity. And I was pretty amazed by how good “SATC” was, actually.
The new issue of Entertainment Weekly is a “special double issue” expanded to make room for over 60 pages of SATC coverage (including a complete episode guide). Guess I’ll get through that issue even quicker than usual.
They should have recast this thing with younger, hotter women.
Seyfried OWNED in ALPHA DOG, by the way.
The glory of vertical integration, Yancy. My guess is that EW held off whoring for the home team that obvious in the past… but things are changing…
1. No, I’m not saying she can open a movie, but if younger audiences who saw her on the poster did recognise her (good chance, I reckon, they’d recognise her face more than her name) they’d probably go “oh, I like her!”
2. Not particularly, but we (as in moviegoers) have had to deal with gratuitous tit shots and the frat boy bruhaha than ensues afterwards since the dawn of cinema now a few guys get their dicks out and it’s all “ooh, that was unnecessary! disgusting! put it away!” Boohoo. It’s just realistic that guys aren’t clothed 100% of the time. Granted, I don’t know how the naked maleness comes into play in S&tC, but considering the shenanigans the characters got up to in the TV series, I’m sure it’s more natural than, say, Halle Berry in Swordfish.
3. Yeah, I don’t really have anything to say about that.
4. Wait, what? Since when is Candice Bergen doing a Meryl Streep impersonation? Do you mean an impersonation of Streep in Prada? Since Bergen plays the editor of Vogue, I imagine you do, and if I am right then Bergen was playing that role on the series long before Prada was even made.
Care to explain that last one, Dave? I’m legitimately intrigued.
It’s not like these penises are erect in any of these movies (otherwise they couldn’t be R-rated).
I’m legitimately ignorant, Kami.
My error.
Still, it reads like a Prada reference… but if she was a reccurring character, obviously it was not.
No worries, it’s just that you sounded like somebody who watched the series (you’re right about season five, even if it was weaker purely because they had to cut it super short due to SJP and Cynthia Nixon’s pregnancies), but yeah Bergen’s character was around from, I think, season three.