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
They should really wait until they see the movie before they jump to conclusions about it.
“The movie portrays blind people as monsters, and I believe it to be a lie. Blindness doesn’t turn decent people into monsters.
This do remind of important cartoon friend of I draw.
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It never ok to make the funs of something that harm. People who wont see have hard time making for normal. Expose!?!?! BUT WHY??? Same with person who make for threat in education cartoon i show.
One day The Americans will wake upping and know that they wrong for always making fun of black, retardation, blind, color, and disabilty. Also racists!
Fat Americans will punished. For their hate hearts full of, and mean eyes.
Jeff just told a joke.
If you read the piece, J-Mc, this group did see it… unless you were making a bad pun.
Don’t think it counts as a pun.
Comment not appreciate Jeff. Who laugh at a not funny joke? Imbacils.
DaneCook, what people will do to promote themselves. Is that the best cartoon you have, really?
I read Danecookforlife’s comic strip and his post and I completely don’t get it. It gave me headache, I guess he’s trying to say with his writing style. Can someone explain it to me?
I liked Jeff’s joke quite a bit.
I read Danecookforlife’s comic strip and his post and I completely don’t get it. It gave me headache, I guess he’s trying to make some statement with his writing style. Can someone explain it to me?
I liked Jeff’s joke quite a bit.
Sorry for the double post, I think following that link caused me to lose 20 IQ points.
just a dumb situation. groups that look for reasons to get their name in the press. there hasn’t been a decent protest in this company since the civil rights movement.
we get promise keepers, hands across america, and this.
this country needs a fucking bitchslap.
Jeff’s joke is actually spoken, after a fashion, by one of the blinded characters about two-thirds of the way into the movie.
In other news . . . woman’s groups have organized a boycott of THE WOMEN because they heard it’s about women and there’s sure to be an unlikable one in the bunch.
Marc Maurer should have also protested Idiocracy since he is obviously a dumbass.
I hear Lex will be protesting THE LOST SKELETON RETURNS AGAIN because he thinks it’s prejudiced against boners.
hcat, brilliant!
Whoever was who said that organisations need somebody to be angry at, otherwise they cease to have a point was very much correct about this group. I mean… really… I know they may be blind, but they’re surely not completely dumb enough to realise that if the population all went blind then things would cease to remain the same.
And, besides, it’s not like people choose to be blind. People aren’t going to see this movie and go “wow, blind people are slobs. I’m never going to be blind.” etc.
idiots.