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  1. LexG says:

    Elizabeth Banks was just on Leno, being HOT and CHARMING until she mentioned having a HUSBAND. What is THAT all about? Boo.
    Anyway, point being, Russell Brand was on first. Is this guy really FAMOUS, or is he “BRITISH FAMOUS,” meaning no one in American really gives a shit? Yeah, he was sort of amusing in Sarah Marshall, but I get the sense they’re trying to make this dude “happen” harder than Bradley Cooper and James McAvoy combined, and just no one here even knows or cares who they are. Am I wrong?
    Guy’s already got a BOOK out? Shit, why don’t I just whip out a book based on my incredible fame from my one uncredited episode of 90210 in the mid 90s and my Hot Blog posts?

  2. Hey, so I got mentioned on Defamer yesterday (the far superior Aussie version, but still). I’m one step closer to getting a column on a respected website. All I need now is to get multiple warnings for bad behaviour. Should be easy.
    In other news: I read Wells for the first time in aaages today because he wrote an Aussie movie (Samson and Delilah) and was scrolling through his entries. One of the very first things I see? Something homophobic. How’s that for charming? Won’t be doing that again in a hurry.
    BTW, I don’t even think people in Britain give a flying fuck about this guy apart from desperate chicks who are willing to screw anyone remotely famous.

  3. LexG says:

    FIRECROTCH ALERT ON FERGUSON!!!!!!! RIGHT NOW!
    I love talk shows!

  4. LexG says:

    Anyone else bored and depressed about not getting laid since before Katrina?
    Hit me up at lex_mch@yahoo.com and just say hi sometime. Fuck am I lonely and hopeless right now. I don’t think I said two words to another human being today. Tomorrow I can look forward to more of the same.
    I wish I weren’t so ugly. I will never be famous.

  5. JamesLaFleur says:

    There are levels of notoriety. If you ever saved a life, land a plane successfully on a large body of river, and had your life saved by Navy Seals. You could become famous. You simply want this callow and shameful life style and Megan Fox. Megan Fox being one of the more fucked up people in this world because she’s bi-sexual, but cannot sleep with a woman who would have sex with a man? That’s confusing. Really really confusing.
    So you see Lex: you have to get the fuck over it. It’s as ridiculous as Poland giving you a column. Let it go, throw it away, and try to find better ways to occupy your time. Outside of posting depressing nonsense on a hot blog that has had pretty much the same posters for the last four years. Do you see how that would be rather redundant? Hopefully Laz does not wish death on you again, but you can never tell with that dillhole.
    KC: homophobia on Wells’ site? YOU’RE JOSHIN!?!?!

  6. James, i know. I hadn’t been there in so long though that I had honestly forgotten how much of a tool that man is.

  7. LexG says:

    IO: Megan Fox is GOD. GOD. BOW TO HER. The fact that people who GET PAID to be ON CAMERA and SAY LINES exist in this world, nee, in the SAME CITY as where I have done menial outland post jobs for a DECADE AND A HALF is puzzling to me.
    A world where I did OPEN MIKE COMEDY, which consisted of going to venues with ZERO AUDIENCE and doing jokes for OTHER COMEDIANS.
    Where every acting class costs a SMALL FORTUNE and even at 50k-plus every year for a decade, every FUCKING PENNY I make goes into just SURVIVING in this world, not a spare CENT to pursue anything, and if I took a single day to go to a CATTLE CALL, I’d lose a job. EVERY DAY.
    AND I HANDS DOWN drive the WORST CAR in a city where every 15 year old girl has a brand new LEXUS. Me all cruising around in a fucking 1990 AMERICAN CAR. Think any UGLY FUCKING LOSER (ie me) is gonna get play driving an AMERICAN CAR?
    I watch E! and G4 and VH1 and TMZ all day, EVERY DAY, and I WILL NEVER KNOW THIS WORLD, I will never be looked twice at on this fucking planet, with my FAT BLOATED FACE and PASTY SKIN and FLABBY BURT YOUNG PHYSIQUE. I’ll never even get in the room. I’ll never audition. No amount of going to the gym will ever grind down physique I’ve had all my life.
    Since I was EIGHT YEARS OLD I have loved movies MORE THAN ANY MOTHERFUCKER ON THIS PLANET, just feverish about them like, say, SCORSESE or TARANTINO, and for a decade plus I haven’t made a single inch of headway in ANYTHING but the furthest reaches of post. No actresses, no models, no fucking NOTHING. Imagine an alternative universe where QUENTIN TARANTINO never caught a break and got stuck running a TELECINE for TWENTY YEARS, and you’ve got the LEX LIFE STORY.
    Just two hours ago in a fit of inspiration, I tried camcordering a bunch of actress rants and reviews of recent movies to put up on YouTube to DELIGHT you people, and in cutting it on WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER, I was so repulsed by the site of my own disgustingly ugly face, I broke down in tears.

  8. JamesLaFleur says:

    KC, never ever forget how much of a tool he is as man. It’s one of the tenants of the net. Jeff Wells is a tool ranks 152 on the list in case you were wondering.
    Step by Step like Patrick Duffy!
    “IO: Megan Fox is GOD. GOD. BOW TO HER. The fact that people who GET PAID to be ON CAMERA and SAY LINES exist in this world, nee, in the SAME CITY as where I have done menial outland post jobs for a DECADE AND A HALF is puzzling to me.”
    Adam Corrolla felt the same way. He made his own luck. If that’s not a good example for you. You still need to let it go.
    Now Megan Fox is not god. She’s a young woman with whacky young people thoughts most young people have. If you are that stunned by her beauty. You have two functioning eyes. Good for you.
    “A world where I did OPEN MIKE COMEDY, which consisted of going to venues with ZERO AUDIENCE and doing jokes for OTHER COMEDIANS.”
    Comedy is a bitch-ass profession, and most comedians admit it’s a bitch-ass profession. So no offense sir, but you brought that upon yourself.
    “Where every acting class costs a SMALL FORTUNE and even at 50k-plus every year for a decade, every FUCKING PENNY I make goes into just SURVIVING in this world, not a spare CENT to pursue anything, and if I took a single day to go to a CATTLE CALL, I’d lose a job. EVERY DAY.”
    And? Again, really, this is all stuff you are bringing on your head. You have a job, you get paid decently, and you are bitching about cattle calls? Again… this is all drama you create for yourself in your head.
    “AND I HANDS DOWN drive the WORST CAR in a city where every 15 year old girl has a brand new LEXUS. Me all cruising around in a fucking 1990 AMERICAN CAR. Think any UGLY FUCKING LOSER (ie me) is gonna get play driving an AMERICAN CAR?”
    Do you have good credit? Lease a new car. Again; this is all drama in your own head. Just keep breathin.
    “I watch E! and G4 and VH1 and TMZ all day, EVERY DAY, and I WILL NEVER KNOW THIS WORLD, I will never be looked twice at on this fucking planet, with my FAT BLOATED FACE and PASTY SKIN and FLABBY BURT YOUNG PHYSIQUE.”
    And? Fame is not the end all be all of existence. If one broad finds you attractive and looks twice at you. There you go. Someone made you feel famous for a day. Awwwwwwwwwwww.
    “I’ll never even get in the room. I’ll never audition. No amount of going to the gym will ever grind down physique I’ve had all my life.”
    Again, this is all in your head. If it is indeed real. If it it’s not. It’s at least a good diatribe to read once not 150 times. Come on, man. Get it together, and see what’s happening.
    “Since I was EIGHT YEARS OLD I have loved movies MORE THAN ANY MOTHERFUCKER ON THIS PLANET,”
    I beat you buy a good 7 1/2 years.
    “just feverish about them like, say, SCORSESE or TARANTINO, and for a decade plus I haven’t made a single inch of headway in ANYTHING but the furthest reaches of post.”
    You got a column buddy! Come on! You got a column on a website read by industry folks.
    “No actresses, no models, no fucking NOTHING.”
    How many people fuck actresses and models on this planet? I would imagine it would be a percent or less of six billion people on this planet. Seriously, those are some pretty slim fucking odds.
    “Imagine an alternative universe where QUENTIN TARANTINO never caught a break and got stuck running a TELECINE for TWENTY YEARS, and you’ve got the LEX LIFE STORY.”
    Imagine an alternative universe where you do not give a shit about any of this shit?
    “Just two hours ago in a fit of inspiration, I tried camcordering a bunch of actress rants and reviews of recent movies to put up on YouTube to DELIGHT you people, and in cutting it on WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER, I was so repulsed by the site of my own disgustingly ugly face, I broke down in tears.”
    You really need to get a better view of yourself. You really do.

  9. LexG says:

    “Fame is not the end all be all of existence.”
    YES, it is. I can’t FUCKING STAND existing and not being famous. IF ONE MAN CAN DO IT, ANOTHER MAN CAN TO. Don’t Hopkins and Baldwin shout that shit for a half hour?
    Why should I compare myself to FAILURES? I only judge myself against GODS. And in the realm, I AM FAILING with flying colors. My life is a disaster. I hate myself every fucking second of every minute of my pathetic, ugly, fat fucking life. Every second I am not famous AND SOMEONE ELSE IS, is a failure. Every second I am unfulfilled is failure. Every second there are MODELS AND ACTRESSES being sexed up, and I am not doing the act, is a reflection on my PERSONAL WORTHLESSNESS.
    This ranting will probably not go over well and for that I am sorry, but I am at a LITERAL WIT’S FUCKING END in life. It is TORTURE to see BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE and their SUCCESSFUL LIVES and I have to drive a fucking 1990 American car and spend every penny in bills just to exist, and will NEVER have a chance because I’m a decade too late and, again, a repulsively ugly and flabby specimen of human garbage.
    And as with most nights like this, I’m at WIT’S END, thinking of either pulling an INSIDE MOVES off the fucking 134 or at least driving to Vegas to herpes it up before calling it a life… but instead I know like a TRUE PUSSY I’ll be back at work tomorrow, smilin’ and agreein’, puttin’ on the GAME FACE as the FUNNY GUY in the office who everybody likes, and I’ll do it the day after, and the day after, working 11 hour days and weekends because if I don’t gross 1000 a week, I don’t fucking eat.
    And all you film critic types just flightin’ it away like it’s all so fucking casual. HOW DO YOU EXIST?????????

  10. mysteryperfecta says:

    Blame it on the Goose
    Got you feeling loose
    Blame it on Petron
    Got you in the zone
    Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
    Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
    Blame it on the Vodka
    Blame it on the Henny
    Blame it on the Blue Tap
    Gotcha feeling dizzy
    Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
    Blame it on the alcohol

  11. Maybe if you went on a diet and lost weight you’d become one of the beautiful people (unlikely, but it’s worth a shot). Or maybe you should just take up The Secret. Can’t be any more pointless than what you do on here.

  12. jeffmcm says:

    Didn’t this exact thread happen like six months ago?

  13. The Big Perm says:

    Quentin Tarantino would have still gotten forward in live because he was driven. At the very least, he would have had Reservoir Dogs made…even if it was shot on a camcorder for no budget and few people saw it. Because he was going to make it no matter what.
    Personally, I’m glad Lex isn’t in movies because I don’t want to see UGLY people and FATTIES on tv. Guys are supposed to be HOT in TANK TOPS and be there to get women WET and give gay dudes BONERS.
    IF YOU ARE AN UGLY MAN DO NOT APPLY.
    GOOD PARODY!

  14. Hallick says:

    “IF ONE MAN CAN DO IT, ANOTHER MAN CAN TO. Don’t Hopkins and Baldwin shout that shit for a half hour?”
    Weren’t those characters out DOING SHIT instead of just watching movies with people just SAYING SHIT, or wasting the precious spare time they had on hand sitting around and WRITING SHIT on a movie blog?
    How many motherfuckers on how many different days do you need to yell “ACTION!” at you Lex? You don’t go to auditions and just stand there talking about what you’re GOING to do in your audition, right? You ACT.
    So act already!

  15. montrealkid says:

    Does anyone ever win the contests on MCN? It would be nice if you published the names of the winners (to protect privacy you could first names and initial of the last name and where they are from).

  16. T. Holly says:

    Anybody want a piece of my really good heart porn walking exercise mp3 of Warm Up, Rev, Rev Higher, Recover, Bee Line, Lunge, Finish and Cool Down?

  17. Lota says:

    LOL Perm
    yeah I only want to see ripped abs and well defined calves. Having said that, I still HATED ‘300’.
    Jeff this thread happens every mf-ing Month. Lex should be writing Dave checques for Therapy.

  18. Lota says:

    Sorry…in the USA… CHECKS.
    Lex, plenty of Ugly men get film roles. TV needs lots of “bad guys” “monsters” and “heavies”. I don;t want to mention names in case a bad guy actor, or monster actor reads Dave, I would hurt his feelings, but men perceived to be ugly based on Hollyweird standards can work just fine in movies and TV. I can think of 2 dozen actors aged 25-65 right now who are rich, made lots of TV episodes or movies and they are GQ-hideous. But if they could fix stuff sure I’d go out with him. Looks are overrated. Stop focusing on your top 2 mm.
    Get off your ass and get to an audition.
    One of my brothers is an actor. He got turned down for a stage part he really wanted in NYC since he was told he looks “too good looking/fit”. You could have had that role and been on Broadway RIGHT NOW you dumb dumb.
    Ugly men work in entertainment.

  19. lazarus says:

    Well, giving Lex his own column sure did a lot of good, huh DP? As jeffmcm just observed, this is the same thing we’ve been seeing for a long time. Over. And over. Again.
    When will you learn? Is this your house or are you letting the frat boys rent it for as long as they want?

  20. tjfar67 says:

    Headline of the day:
    Script For New Moon Found In Trash

  21. djk813 says:

    So… anyone looking forward to hearing reports out of Cannes? The lineup seems to be particularly full of heavy hitters this year: Almodovar, von Trier, Campion, Ang Lee, Resnais, Haneke, Loach, Chan-Wook, Tarantino, Noe… (and that’s just the Competition section).

  22. Lota says:

    We can hope that Lex does something with his column, and that he gets to auditions and takes an acting class. Think positively.

  23. gradystiles says:

    Nice hold for Star Trek on Monday. Its first Monday was significantly higher than Wolverine’s and comfortably above Iron Man’s from last year, as well.

  24. Lex bores me to tears and I long ago stopped reading his posts.

  25. LexG says:

    Cannes:
    Almodovar: Don’t get this guy AT ALL. This is one of those directors who “loves” women, meaning his movies are all campy and make an average drag review look like Lee Marvin. Plus they’re always foreign, so I naturally DO NOT CARE.
    von Trier: Genius. Looks pretty awesome.
    Campion: Liked the parts of “In the Cut” that didn’t involve some kaleidoscope/view finder-shot Something Wicked This Way Comes shit set on an ice pond. Also, like, okay, lady, we get it: You’re a woman. What do you want, a fuckin’ Junior G Man badge? Snore.
    Ang Lee: Other than awesome Brokeback, why do all his movies look “dusty”? Like he shoots through doughnut powder or something? This looks FUCKING AWFUL. Dmitri Whoever is a straight-up no-energy, snide, snarky, tiresome douchebag, the wigs look fake, and that “old people eating the brownies” clip is EMBARRASSING. That shit would have looked dated in the fucking “Groove Tube.”
    Resnais: I don’t know or care who this is.
    Haneke: If it’s like “Funny Games,” then YES. If it’s some other boring tract that doesn’t have FAMOUS AMERICAN ACTORS in it, again, DON’T CARE.
    Loach: B O R I N G.
    Chan-Wook: Let me guess, more violent Korean gangland bullshit? Most Asian cinema is boring, and I don’t need every wannabe Tarantino talking it up like it’s so fucking earth-shattering. Because if the SAME FUCKING MOVIE came out but it was in American with Paul Walker and Chris Evans but EVERYTHING ELSE was the same, no film geeks would care. Point being, film geeks have an ASIAN FETISH based on demure flower stereotypes and have convinced themselves that these mundane Asian action movies are a lot better than they are.
    Tarantino: Probably the only “real” movie they’ll show at the festival. But isn’t it like 2 hours and 50 minutes? Note to directors, the longer your movies, the longer I have to SIT NEXT TO MOTHERFUCKERS WHO TALK AND TEXT DURING THEM. Anyone ever see that DVD extra where Tarantino says he goes to the theater showing HIS MOVIE and walks around the room throughout the screening, plopping down next to audience members and asking them how they’re liking it? Holy shit, I’d probably throw a fucking haymaker at ANYONE interrupting my movie like that.
    Noe: IRREVERSIBLE is a masterpiece. Now watch this one not be anywhere near as hardcore.

  26. BurmaShave says:

    Kamikaze, I generally enjoy your perspective around these parts, but you come off as a prick with your Lex baiting. Furthermore, it smacks far too openly of resentment and jealousy.
    Lex may not always be charming, but at least he’s (usually) interesting.

  27. ThriceDamned says:

    Lex is truly myopic, self-obsessed and one-note. And his self-loathing rants bore me to tears.
    How can Irreversible be a masterpiece Lex?…it’s “foreign”, and therefore naturally you don’t give a shit.
    Sorry, anybody who dumps on more than half the film spectrum, such as “foreign” cinema (anything not Hollywood), animation, classics in b&w, etc. but sits there in earnest trying to sell the worth of vapid, shiny, pointless crap like every Jessica Alba movie ever made, Twilight…or god forbid, try to sell the image of Paul Walker being anything but a waste of perfectly good nutrients, is just a joke to me.
    I sometimes laugh at Lex (not often, but sometimes), but mostly I find his opinions to be worthless to me. But hey, each to his own.

  28. ThriceDamned says:

    Btw, Lex.
    Resnais directed masterpieces such as “Hiroshima Mon Amour” and “Last Year at Marienbad” but they’re both foreign and you therefore really shouldn’t give a shit.

  29. The Big Perm says:

    While I liked 300 because MEN were getting their FUCKING HEADS FUCKING CHOPPED OFF, I did not get stiff because I am not GAY. So I can be BEST friends with JEFF WELLS because HE HATES GAYS and while I do not hate gays I am not one of them, because I like WOMEN. WITH BIGGG JUGGS. So 300 did not do much for me except when FUCKERS were getting STABBED and that one scene of the FLOATING CHICK AND YOU COULD SEE THROUGH HER SHIRT OH MY GOD THAT WAS HOT.
    But my gay friends liked 300, except for the ones with taste.

  30. Lota says:

    I might be wasting my breath but maybe Lex has not the access or wit to seek out good stuff from dam foreigners.
    Asian…
    Japan: Hana-Bi and Sonatine you might find accessible and there’s guns. There’s a topless broad in SOnatine and a cool bank robbery in Hana Bi; I loved “Twilight samurai” but you might think defending a battered woman is dullsville Tasogare Seibei (2002) try it.
    Hong Kong: Johnnie To is hilarious and violent. If you want fat jokes from an Asian perspective Sau san naam neui (2001) “love on a diet” isn’t bad. For shoot em ups, Hak se wui (2005) Election (about Triad gangster stuff) is violent enough to please any gangster flick fan (Tarantino liked it, supposedly). You won;t want to eat hamburger or sausage for awhile after that.
    I like Running out of time (1999) the best and it is a very cool gangster-cop comraderie flick with the most romantic bus scene ever, but the music dates it a bit and I can see you wigging out on that. I loved the trick-bomb scene.
    Johnnie To can do comedy, romance and gangster.
    French
    Quai des Orf

  31. Lota says:

    Twilight Samurai is one of my favorite modern movies out of Japan, by the great Yoji Yamada.
    Some translated dialog from IMDB:
    Zenemon Yogo: So they sent you…
    Seibei Iguchi: Zenemon Yogo, by order of the clan, I come for your life. Draw your sword, please.
    Zenemon Yogo: [Intoxicated] Have a drink? I know you’re all keyed up, but I’m going to run.
    Seibei Iguchi: Run?
    Zenemon Yogo: Yep. I want you to let me get away. If you please.
    Seibei Iguchi: I didn’t expect that from the clan’s best one-sword man. My orders are to kill you. I can’t let you escape.
    Zenemon Yogo: Don’t be so impatient, you can kill me at anytime. I’d like to talk to you. Have a seat. It’s a nice day.
    rock out.

  32. Lota says:

    the “rock out” is from me.
    There’s alot of crap from any country that makes many films Lex, but there’s so many great ones too.
    Free your mind.

  33. Lota says:

    and for ‘foreign’ Spanish Abre los ojos (1997) induces nightmares and you get to see Penelope Cruz naked.

  34. Lota says:

    by Running out of Time I meant Johnnie To’s Am Zin from 1999 bot the spanish movie “D

  35. LexG says:

    and for ‘foreign’ Spanish Abre los ojos (1997) induces nightmares and you get to see Penelope Cruz naked.
    I saw it; I liked the remake better because it had Tom Cruise, the BIGGEST STAR IN THE WORLD, instead of some nobody I couldn’t remember from scene to scene.

  36. Chucky in Jersey says:

    Sorry to break up your parlor game, fanboys, but we just found out why most of Hollywood want to be a Castro convertible.

  37. The Big Perm says:

    You know what I hate about foreigners? The way they don’t speak English. They’re like blah blah blah, and I’m like I don’t know what you’re talking about, Ahmed.
    And even though they speak English in that place England, I hate them too because they don’t live in the greatest country in the world, ever. Fuck you, all of England.
    ME SMART.

  38. Geoff says:

    Monday grosses came in for Trek – the film made $7.5 million, actually more than Iron Man made on its first Monday – I think this thing is going to have some legs. I can see it doing around $225 million.

  39. chris says:

    Just think how well it would do if it weren’t bad and if everybody who thinks it’s good weren’t wrong and incapable of telling the difference between “bad” and “good.”

  40. Joe Leydon says:

    Er, as well as Speed Racer? (Yeah, I know — a cheap shot. I couldn’t resist. I’m a bad person. But remember, David: I, too, preferred Hancock to The Dark Knight.)

  41. David Poland says:

    Drama, drama…
    It’s amazing how hard people will fight to call the crap they enjoy “quality cinema.”
    No one was slapping the Twinkie out of your hand… just pointing out that it is a Twinkie. Why does that so enrage?

  42. chris says:

    I think it’s because there’s a difference between “I don’t much care for this movie” and “I am right about this movie and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong.”

  43. LYT says:

    OLDBOY is awesome and would NEVER be remade exactly the same with Paul Walker. Hollywood hasn’t had the balls to remake it yet otherwise they would have.

  44. jeffmcm says:

    I agree. David, I don’t like the movie either, but I also know that the idea that labelling a movie as ‘objectively mediocre’ is the fastest way to have a pointless discussion.

  45. The Big Perm says:

    Yeah, like I got called an “apologist” because I liked the prequels. That word is just used to kill a conversation. Of course the irony is, the reason I liked the prequels better than the foaming at the mouth angry blowhards is because I don’t care that much about Star Wars ne way or the other, so those movies didn’t have to live up to anything in my mind. It was the people yelling “apologist” who actually cared about those movies, not me.
    Does the Hobbit REALLY need to be two fucking movies? You want to bet they’re each going to be three hours as well? That story can’t be told in even one three hour movie? I mean, the cartoon was like 80 minutes.

  46. LexG says:

    Props where due, I got two, maybe three decent-sized laughs out of Big Perm’s mocking posts above. (“GOOD PARODY!”) Though maybe not as funny as Chucky’s completely AWESOME and unironic “Sorry to break up your parlor game, fanboys,” which I’m totally gonna co-opt.
    Hey, what was that Asian movie from like five years ago with some hot chick in little outfits shooting off guns? “Shari”? “Shiri”? “Cheri”? Or something? How’s that one? Figured it’d be more up my alley.

  47. LexG says:

    Also: Did anyone here see PASSENGERS when it was in theaters?
    It *dropped* on DVD today and I am tempted to buy it outright, sight unseen. For one reason only: Hathaway. Is she CHARMING? Not that I need to ask. Best actress in the world.
    Well, plus it’s in 2.40:1, and it is a Lex Rule that EVERY SINGLE MOVIE EVER SHOT IN WIDESCREEN EVER should be purchased on DVD, just to look at the beauty of a WIDE FRAME. Because Panavision movies and, even more so, Super 35 (with all that sudden extra legroom fucking up the geometrical precision), just look like SHIT on TV.

  48. chris says:

    “Passengers” is surprisingly not bad (and Hathaway is good in a role unlike anything else she’s done). I don’t know about buying, but it’s worth a rental, anyway.

  49. Burma, I’ll give you resentment, but if anything I type on here comes off as jealousy towards Lex then I’m sorry. By no means did I ever wish to be seen as being jealous of him. Not by a long shot.

  50. Lota says:

    People will be sorry they shat on Speed Racer. One day. I carry a RacerX trading card from 1993 in my wallet.
    They do speak English in that place England Perm but they can’t spell for naught–see they don’t say nothing, they say naught and null and nil. Bastards. And they call soccer football.
    I have to go to England, Scotland, Ireland, LA and NYC all within 4 weeks so weep for the loss of me since I am not sure how much posting I can do.

  51. The Big Perm says:

    DON’T GET ME FUCKING STARTED ON SOCCER!
    YOU DO NOT WANT TO SEE THAT!!!!!!!!!
    I do like the liberal use of the word “fags,” though. It’s funny. Cause this guys would be like “Would you like a fag?” and I’d say “Ewwww, gross!” and then he’d say “but over here a fag is a cigarette,” and I’d say “I know, I hate smokers…I have no trouble sucking cock!”

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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.

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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