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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
Are we tallking just US, or “international” (i.e., including Mexico)? Because if we’re including Mexico, my friends…
Since it would never be possible to know the answer to these questions, the more interesting thing to ask is, how aggressive will Fox be in pushing one or the other after the numbers come in?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090427/film_nm/us_flu_wolverine_1
You mean Wolverine is the source of the swine flu?…
It started with pigs. But now it’s being transmitted by a Fox through a Wolverine.
I think Scott Mendelson coined the term “Curse of Wolverine” the other day….seems apropos at this juncture.
Fox has opted not to air Obama Wednesday night. Perhaps because he will speak of the flu? Only one of many factors, likely.
The nation is starting to grow more concerned by the day, and this is only Monday.
Call me crazy but I think that the whole part where the film is the worst piece of cinematic offal many will have seen in over a decade will produce word of mouth that will have more to do with low Wolvie numbers than swine flu.
I am a little behind on these blog posts, is Swine Flu what we are calling “the ghosts of girlfriends past” now?
Gee, Dirk, you think you could squeeze a touch more hyperbole in there?
I can think of a dozen movies in that timeframe worse than Wolverine, without even trying.
Unfortunately theaters are going ahead with midnight shows Thursday night. I wouldn’t be surprised if state and local health departments lean on the theaters to cancel those shows.
Chucky: Well, I won’t be surprised if they’re closed in the New York area. Seriously.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30453688
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30442914/
Since there hasn’t been one confirmed death in the U.S. yet and the number of deaths in Mexico has been significantly revised downward, can we please stop with the panic?
i think the US already had its swine flu–there were record numbers of early spring flus and pneumonia in many parts of the country (big cities) in march -April yet no one thought to do a serotype or genome-type of those affected. I bet many of those were oink-chirp.
the panic is over the top and it’s too late to do much about it anyway
SARS killed ~ 800 people from complications