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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
Difficulty focusing? Tell me about it! When my daughter wants me to read her a book, I look at her with disdain and say, “You want me to read f’n [i]Little Toot[/i] when someone, somewhere, is probably posting a new invective-filled screed against McCain? AS WE SPEAK? Leave me alone so I can keep refreshing the Kos frontpage!!!”
I don’t read Kos… more extremely and drooly than I am interested in. I actually subscribed for the Kindle, then dumped it after a month.
I am interested in what is going on… and it’s no just McCain’s camp working hard turn Troopergate into Watergate and explaining what McCain is actually trying to say today.
This country is hitting a major speedbump. Your daughter need not be deprived. But your anger about actually paying attention to what is happening in the world fits your willingness to indulge McCain/Palin perfectly.
And for the record, there is NOTHING ok with Palin’s e-mail being hacked. Then again… perhaps it is Palin’s excuse for burning all the Troopergate e-mails… or not. I want to know who did the actual hack, not just who published it. Funny how this happens a day after the McCain camp publishes selected Palin e-mails to “prove” her innocence. We’ll see.
I would be VERY surprised if THE FULL MONTY did not make $100m for Peter.
Its US gross seems to have been around $45m plus almost $200m outside of the US.
Not to talk about movies or anything here, but anyone read the Lakeview Terrace, Ebert piece? The movie looks reasonably good and I think LaBute is talented. But what’s up with talking about Sam Jackson’s villain role in… Training Day?!
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080915/PEOPLE/809159993/
And it was Lindsay at Searchlight when Monty was released.
Martin – whose fuck-up was that, Ebert’s or LaBute’s? Pretty egregious, especially in terms of the race discussion in the interview/review. Ouch.
I know the newspapers are cutting back, but are there no editors left at all at the Sun-Times?
I think all Ebert meant was that it’s nice to see Sam Jackson playing a villian role, like Denzel did in Training Day. I don’t think he thought Jackson was in Training Day. It definitely could have been phrased better, though.
I agree with ManWithNoName, except I’m pretty sure the quote was LaBute’s, not Ebert’s.
Sony Classics would rather deal with arthouses than megaplexes. That may look great on paper but doesn’t build goodwill in the long term.
Had “Frozen River” been playing at an AMC megaplex near me I would have seen that film at AMC. As it was I had to go down to South Jersey to see it.
So wait, Chucky, your argument is that you’re pissed at SPC because they didn’t put a barely-publicized indie movie into a multiplex convenient to you?
On behalf of Sony, Excuuuuze me!
Do you think AMC would want to give a screen to an arthouse film when they can keep Tropic Thunder for another week?