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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
I don’t know about the comedy, but I guess there’s an ad there.
I know this is positively Wellsian of me, but that Jonah Hill cat has gotten extremely and uncomfortably large.
If Jonah Hill were, oh, Nikki Blonsky people would be calling her gross and ugly and fat. Hill is apparently “funny”. Although it was nice to see in the other entry that not many people seem to actually think that.
I hate to harp on it as well but the guy is like 25 years old and already looks like John Candy at 40. Its one thing to start packing on some weight once you hit a certain age (cough* Baldwin cough*) and your metabolism starts to slow down, but to be in the prime of your life with that bullfrog thing hanging under your chin is just sad.
Jonah Hill is the new Joe Rubbo. (Last American Virgin = AMERICAN MASTERPIECE and the best sex comedy of the 1980s… FAST TIMES is better but it really isn’t a comedy, and RISKY BUSINESS isn’t exclusively a teen movie.)
In other words, he’s AWESOME.
`If Jonah Hill were, oh, Nikki Blonsky people would be calling her gross and ugly and fat. Hill is apparently “funny”. ‘
Yeah, so? “The Funny Fat Guy” is a proud comedic archetype for anyone who grew up on SNL and Belushi (Jim or John) or Candy or Smails in Caddyshack or any ’80s titty movie with a “wacky” fat dude in a garish Hawaiian shirt inexplicably rolling with two skinny cool dudes on the make at a tropical resort.
“The Vulgar Fat Woman” is merely a staple of broad musical theater-style “real women have curves” feminist bullshit and grating vaudeville stuff like Hairspray, Bette Midler and Roseanne Barr. It’s camp and irritating and makes most men leap off the sofa for the remote with all the speed and precision of Chow-Yun Fat loading clips into his dual sidearms.
Belushi and Gleason were big guys but they were sort of a “lean” fat. Those guys were graceful. Hill would pass out in a heap of sweat after a minute and a half of Belushi’s Blues Brothers routine.
And Midler is hardly fat (vulgar, I’ll grant you). SHe’s just built like a midwestern farm girl, geneticallly evolved to give fireman’s carrys to calfs when the barn catches ablaze. She will never be skinny but she carries it well, unlike Hill who looks like a giant sack of Ham drippings.
So in LexWorld, the “Funny Fat Guy” is a “proud comic archetype” but “The Vulgar Fat Woman” is feminist grating. That’s some heavy Leykis-insight!
Kami: I’m not quite getting your point. So if one finds Jonah Hill unfunny, it’s okay to make cruel remarks about his weight? Or are you simply decrying the double standard that makes it okay to insult Nikki Blonsky (who may be fat, but is hardly gross or ugly) while giving Hill a pass because he’s a funny guy?
I’d say that it was alright to make cruel remarks about his weight even if you do find him funny (I thought he was good in superbad).
You guys are actually making fun of Hill when Stiller looks like he’s been in chemo or a death camp or something. Ugh…he looks terrible.
Also….no one finds it “odd” that Stiller and Bale can looked buffed out to the max in one film then freakishly skinny in the next??? Why is no one talking about actors and STEROIDS??? I mean, if you need a case study, watch that ad and look at Stiller in “Tropic Thunder.” Helllloooooo……
I don’t know about Stiller, but I find Bale’s pendulum starvation diets and bulk-ups to be creepy and unhealthy. American Psycho to The Machinist to Batman Begins to Rescue Dawn to The Dark Knight? There’s such a thing as being a little too dedicated to your craft.
Yes, Stiller has lost too much weight, but he filmed Tropic Thunder two years ago and if he didn’t keep up with whatever workout regime he employed during the filming of it, the muscles would diminish and the weight would come off. I’m not saying that every actor needs to be rail thin or even fit, but how hard would it be for Hill to get down to say Jack Black size.
yancy, I wasn’t trying to insult either, but merely pointing out that if Jonah Hill were female he wouldn’t be appearing on magazines (with pretty half-naked men especially) or be getting cast as often as he is. Instead he’d have hordes of people on the internet making, yes, insulting comments about him.
But, he’s a guy who people seem to find amusing so you get people like Lex who defend his (let’s face it) excessive weight as “the Funny Fat Guy” and he, thusly, gets cast in all these big franchise movies (Night at the Museum 2) and mainstream comedies (Funny People, Forgetting Sarah Marshall).
Blonsky has a TV movie, two features nobody will have heard of and an episode of Ugly Betty despite doing very well for herself in Hairspray (as Hill did in Superbad). Are there no musicals being made that call for a girl of Nikki’s size? I’d love to see her again, but it’s not looking likely.
Both Hill and Blonsky are worryingly overweight, we can all agree on that and this double-standard isn’t anywhere being “new” but I thought it was worth repeating since I’m sick of seeing Hill and especially when he looks like this and yet nobody seems to say anything (although, thankfully, people here don’t seem to be under the same spell as most other people). He was incredibly lucky to fall in the crowd that he did.
Thanks, Kami. I was hoping that was what you meant, even though I like Hill.