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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
A poster for a benefit concert to pay for campaign debts, showing some old hands (Hillary’s?) simultaneously knitting a guitar-shaped U.S. flag and stabbing an Obama voodoo doll? Point is, a little too much going on, imo.
Its also curious that a movie news site employs a cartoonist whose cartoons don’t necessarily have anything to do with movies. It doesn’t bother me– its just an observation.
You don’t get the movie reference, Mystery?
Glad to have your negative opinion, as always.
You do seem like a pretty negative guy mystery.
No, I totally missed the reference. I see it now. Obviously, that makes me look foolish. Haven’t seen that movie.
“Glad to have your negative opinion, as always.”
“You do seem like a pretty negative guy mystery.”
I’m hardly the first person to criticize one of Matson’s cartoons. Mine was a mild (and misguided) criticism. Still, making a generalization about me based on my contribution to this blog is a little ridiculous.
I like the movie discussions, but I don’t care about the industry inside-baseball stuff. I don’t really care about the Tonys or niche film festivals. The other 90% of this blog is an Obama love-in, so if I loved Obama, I suppose the perception of me would drastically change. But I’m always civil. My minority opinions contribute to the perception.
Now you sound like an appeaser mystery, and we all know that appeasers want the terrorists to win.
Yeah, why do you hate America mystery?
He doesn’t hate America. He’s only love Canada more! Freakin Canuck lover.
LOVIN… LOVIN Canada more! Once again… fucking keyboad… gets me again.
[throws KEYBOARD against wall…]
IO: Ok, sport — back on your meds. Now.
Preview is your freind friend. 🙂
Can we establish some sort of gentleman’s agreement on this blog that we won’t pick on each other for a typo when the original intent is abundantly clear? It seems that, just about every day, a commenter feels the need to post a second comment to correct a typo in the first, then sometimes a third to correct another typo in the second, and so on.
Join me, friends– let’s make the internet a better place to be.
Eric, you forgot the “sorry about the double post” post, where people instantly neutralize their apology by making you read an additional useless entry.
Yeah, that’s a good one to eliminate, too. This could turn into the Geneva Convention of commenting.