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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
“…anymore than I need to know what body part Lindsay Lohan is resting her tongue on. ”
HOT. TOTAL RAGER.
Also, “any more” should be two words there.
Well, the real point on this particular case is, “Who gives a shit?” It’s not even revelatory of…anything. But I get, and side with, your point.
I agree with DP’s point as well. In this age, any public person who has any notion of privacy has to be obsessively withdrawn or reticent. Forget about letting your guard down. Almost everyone has a phone with camera/video capabilities these days. Any idle chitchat might end up on a blog. Its unfortunate.
Paul Newman has died. Let us celebrate him and his brilliant career (and if anybody like Chucky or Lex says we shouldn’t because they’re old or whatever then they can pretty much fuck off forever thank you).
So many classic performances, how does one pick just one to represent their feelings toward the man.
I gotta say though, if Liz Taylor were to pass this weekend too…. well… that’d just be awful.
I realise that may come off as mean towards Lex (pfft) but I couldn’t remember who it was exactly who made such horrible comments after the passing of Anthony Minghella recently.
Way to accuse someone of something they didn’t, and wouldn’t, do. You could’ve, you know, taken 14 seconds to google the Minghella thread to find the culprit, but I guess it’s classier to blame someone you don’t like.
And not two days ago, you wrongly attributed someone else’s dumb X-Files predictions to me as well. What’s next, KCamel, gonna take me to task for my name-checking/Oscar-whoring obsession?
I won’t hold my breath waiting for the apology I’m owed, Mr. Moral High Ground.
Gee Lex, you’re getting extra attention without having to work for it, you should be happy.
Wait, is LexG the right-wing Canadian, or the guy who’s always cursing everyone out and telling them not to “play?” It’s hard to keep up around here.
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Actually, I think LexG would have had a great time hanging with Paul Newman. They both have/had a way with the ladies.
http://movingpictureblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/remembering-paul-newman.html