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
Offering a “portable” size isn’t necessarily necessary. 640×480 video can be played on iPods. They’re designed to do that. That’s why when you rent or buy iTunes movies they come in SD 480.
I don’t know the technology very well, Jamie… as you know… but the larger size will not download onto my iPhone through iTunes. So I am posting both options for download.
Poland, how can you do this to me?
QUICKTIME? Noooooooo!
Someone describe every single second, down to the hair flip and squint.
lex… how can you not have QT?
I liked Real Player better too. (Your “here” link doesn’t take me anywhere.)
K-STEW.
It makes me sad when she chops her hair off in the Cake Eaters trailer I just watched.
Greatest actress of all time.
lex — i saw ‘adventureland’ this morning….no, she’s not…
(but she really is adorable…)
Hey, David…
I respect that you are a professional, but seeing as how you’re now going to be interviewing MY FAVORITE ACTRESS EVER on the monthly…
Next time, any chance you could snag me an autograph? If you could get her to sign “TO LEX, YOU OWN– K-STEW!” with a SMILEY FACE, that would be THE GREATEST THING EVER.
Just throwing it out there.
K-STEW 4 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER.
Most CHARMING and BEAUTIFUL and TALENTED woman EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER.
I am going to BUY CAKE EATERS ON DVD, buy TWILIGHT ON DVD (seven copies), and will see ADVENTURELAND *12 TIMES* in theaters.
CHARMING. THIS THREAD DIDN’T GET ENOUGH POSTS.
K-STEW = GOD.
K-STEW YES! THIS MOVIE was kind of boring and MSM isn’t exactly Kubrick, but K-STEW COMMANDED THIS JOINT LIKE THE MIGHTY ZOD EVEN WITHOUT NON, and I was BOWING throughout, GREAT performance, heartbreaking performance, when she comes on screen it’s like BRANDO popping up and making everyone and everything else look like AMATEUR NIGHT.
Only question is, can she win THREE best actress oscars at one ceremony, for this, Adventureland: K-Stewland, AND New Moon?
There is simply NOTHING this woman cannot do.