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
pfft, NOTHING for Three Blind Mice or The Horseman = Epic Fail. Two of the god damn finest examples of cinema of the year they are.
Kam, neither of those films was in competition at SXSW.
And besides, Kam, they’re Australian films. Who gives awards to Australian films anymore? That’s so 1970s!
I’m def gonna check out TBM on demand, Kami. Don’t know why a bar or coffee house (which is paying for basic digital cable anyway) doesn’t crank up their large screen with an On Demand movie and let people watch quietly in the dark with their drinks.
Kim, thanks. I wasn’t aware. I just kind of assumed they were. tbh I know nothing about SXSW.
tbh I knew not Scott Foundas was in Austin… no reported sightings… not even a tweet.
Holly: He sat next to me during Haunting in Connecticut. But by the time the lights came up after the movie… he had vanished!!!!!!!!!
That’s cuz he’s little.
You reviewed that. Are you reviewing La Corona, I mean title-cute Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo.
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We’ll see. Tonight: “Lesbian Vampie Killers.”
anybody see ‘the hurt locker’ yet? and if so, any thoughts to share?
“Hurt Locker” is SUUUuuuuuper intense. Like, first 15 mins of “Saving Private Ryan” intense. But, there’s not nearly enough character development. Still, an AMAZING movie….physically exhausting.
Joe, sorry I missed you at the fest. Was going to go to Haunting with Scott, but I was just too damn tired, and irritable from dodging drunken frat boys and sorority girls wearing shamrock antennae on 6th street all evening.
thanks, don lewis, good to know!
i’m all psyched for some new bigelow badassery but no release date for down here yet so who knows when i’ll get to see it. i guess i’ll have to play it cool and hold my water, hopefully it won’t be a case of straight to dvd for the outlands