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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
GAH! Don’t do that without warning!
…Sorry, it’s just the whole concoction is a smidge creepy….
In the words of George C. Scott, TURN IT OFF!
would be less creepy if i didn’t think Dave was pleasuring himself to this.
http://www.trekyourself.com/?mId=29973090.3
Is Poland’s chick who I think it is? This isn’t meant as an insult to her when I say the program and facial tone have essentially rendered her as Michael Myers from that shot in the first HALLOWEEN when he picks up the phone after strangling PJ Soles.
In other words, SINISTER.
Hey, does this mean I could make one of these with K-STEW or Hilton? OWNAGE.
Wow. That you took the time to roast Finke like that. I’m worried for you.
Yes. The obsession is down right Ahab-ian.
I’d like to see Dave morphed into Montalban’s Khan…
“From Wilshire’s heart I stab at thee!”
LexG and doug r had the only non-myopic responses of the last six.
I wish those of you who need it a wider sense of the universe. You each spent more time commenting on me than I did making the silly thing. We sell senses of humor in the gift shop… my treat.
My comment wasn’t ‘myopic’. It was a reaction to the thing being horrible and not funny.
(Since you asked though, I agree with Crow).
hey david poland, goodness knows with my track record around here the past few day of fighting to the death like yosemite sam with all guns blazing, me trying to be the voice of reason will likely sound like total BS, but honestly, without trying to ignite the methane and or stir the pot or insult you or take you on or any such thing – and as someone who wasn’t bothered by you using finke’s face:
with your long track record of obvious disdain and contempt for finke, can you honestly say you’re surprised that in this thread people have commented/focused on it, you taking the mickey out of finke yet again with your extremely creepy talking-head and ‘idiots and morons’ sound bite of her? it seems a bit disingenuous on your part; from the outside looking in, it looks like you are baiting the hook. that’s how it seems to me, anyway, and i thought i’d let you know in as ‘non-rant’ a way possible
Dave,
your grip on reality is, at best, fleeting.
I doubt it took me more time to type a sentence than it took for you to set up virtual Finke.
That’s the thing about unhealthy obsession. It skews your reality.
It’s your site and you can devote as many words as you want to your Finke obsession. But brother, let me tell ya, unless this is a consciouss move to drive traffic by creating a turf war, then you sir are in an unhealthy area. Here’s some SAT logic for you.
David Poland is to Nikki Finke as:
Fox News is to Barack Obama
The only person here that needs perspective (other than LexG), is you.