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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
Is Sebastian Gutierrez really Carla G’s “boyfriend”? ‘Cause I don’t remember reading that before, say, Rise: Blood Hunter.
CaptainZahn? Do you know?
BTW, Grindhouse reunion stunt casting — well played. Marley Shelton rocks in Planet Terror.
ha, good call, db, sounds like brolin (or his accent coach) had ‘reign of fire’ on a loop in order to achieve the perfect ‘bale’
That’s a pretty good accent, especially considering that most American actors are lousy at that sort of thing. (There are notable exceptions, of course, like Keanu’s brilliant turn in Dracula.)
Brolin had better cut it out. He’s gonna make all the other actors jealous.
Oscar within five years.
‘like Keanu’s brilliant turn in Dracula’
fb, you so funny
(and let’s face it, brolin is just dynamite wrapped in plastique; i happened to watch ‘no country’ again last night and i bow down in worship to him as llewelyn (sp?) moss – every time i see that flick i’m just ROOTING for moss to survive, damn those mexican assassins and the coen brothers all to hell)
Yes, he’s her man, NDB.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-ca-conversation8-2009mar08,0,1385716.story?page=2
Yeah, okay, CZ — I guess the part of me that found “boyfriend” an unconvincing appellation was secretly hoping it was a bunch of publicist hooey.
But what publicist would script “spaghetti with the stepkids,” really?
Ooh — unless it’s to help promote the family-friendly Witch Mt. flick!
Uh…
damn.
i meant, ‘ha, good call, DP’ in my comment above re: brolin’s ‘bale’
and notdavidb, the lovely carla is secretly saving herself for you, don’t fret
oh, and i forgot to damn cormac mccarthy for moss’s demise as well – i assume he’s primarily to blame although i’ve not read that particular mccarthy novel so i’m just guessing the coen’s unbelievably sublime, darkly humourous screenplay followed the book in that respect.
‘where’d you get that pistol?
‘at the gettin’ place.’
‘you’re a bit deaf, aren’tcha?’
MARLEY SHELTON is CHARMING and was HOT AS HELL in Grindhouse and Sugar and Spice.
Another scene with Gugino and Connie Britton:
http://blogs.indiewire.com/thelostboy/archives/women_in_trouble_exclusive_clip
somewhere in the world, notdavidbordwell has probably dropped dead from heart failure after watching carla in that
Re that Women in Trouble scene: ah, the old “stuck in the elevator” bit. Not every day you see that, unless you’re watching TVLand. Love the actresses though.