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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 just read on Yahoo about Emma Watson enrolling at Brown University.
Like, what’s the point? Same with James Franco and his academic career. WHY?
Isn’t the whole point of going to college to make yourself more viable in the job market so someday you’ll have a better shot at a good income? And also so you can drink and party for four years?
If you’re Emma Watson or James Franco, you’re already a *millionaire* and you can party with the most famous people in the world, so why do you wanna hang out at the student union doing HOMEWORK for your ultralib Socialist professors who hate capitalism and the patriarchy and have never left a campus in their entire, sheltered lifetime?
College kinda sucks anyway, unless you go to like some party school where they’re recreating Eyes Wide Shut in the freshman dorm every night or you’re in some train-pulling super-frat with chicks just shuffle in and out like, “Oh you’re Phi Kappa Douchebag? I’ll fuck you.”
There’s NOOOOOOOTHING to be learned as a Liberal Arts student at ANY college that you couldn’t figure out on your own with a library card and a good cable package.
Emma Watson going to college is like Donald Trump getting a job at WaMu as a fucking teller.
Though maybe I should apply for a job at Brown now.
Preferrably in the Womyn’s Studies department.
Emma Watson is on the record recently as saying that after the Potter movies are wrapped up, she’s going to pursue a different career from acting. So yeah, this kind of makes sense.
Sam Jackson and Eugene Levy, YEP YEP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM_ZegDdl6w
Lex, you’re just upset because it’s yet another example of someone reinforcing your misery.
Jeff: I don’t even know what that means.
Martin: HA! That was much funnier than their previous pairing, “The Man.” Too bad the clip seems to cut off abruptly on YT.
And, Jeff, the main thing Emma Watson is “reinforcing” is located in my pants.
ZING.
Here’s part 2 of Sam and Eugene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3uzt70w3s&feature=related
What, they don’t have any good schools in Britain?
Oh, wait. She’s going to Brown, not a good school. Never mind.
Lex, my point was that Emma Watson and James Franco are living (more or less) the lifestyles that you covet – and then they step away from the showbiz scene to do other things with their lives. How dare they! It’s as if a lavish lifestyle and Hollywood connections alone aren’t the key to happiness!
“…you’re already a *millionaire* and you can party with the most famous people in the world, so why do you wanna hang out at the student union doing HOMEWORK for your ultralib Socialist professors who hate capitalism and the patriarchy and have never left a campus in their entire, sheltered lifetime?”
Lex,
Not tryin’ to hurt your cred, man. But you ever get your ass to Toronto…the beer and wings are on me.
First off, thanks for the props, Nicol. Whatever our minor differences (and I skew fairly right on a lot of shit; You guys just need to stop talking about Jesus and family values and I’d vote R straight down the line…) I’ve ALWAYS agreed with your take on universities being a hotbed of aging radicals pushing their Marxist bullshit on a bunch of 19-year-old boozehounds so thrilled to be away from Ma and Pa for the first time, they’re susceptible to any kind of mind control. It’s completely irresponsible at best and nefarious at worst. And I don’t object to the legit discussion of such viewpoints, but the traditionalist opposite is so thoroughly derided at every turn, it’s not a fair fight.
BUT MORE TO THE POINT; I know everyone’s on PINS AND NEEDLES wanting to hear about the Lexmaster 6900 getting dissed at, yes, THE GROCERY STORE.
Yep, worked till 11:07pm as usual, nothing open, no dinner, starving and dizzy, so had to hit up VONS to buy BEER, WHISKEY, RUM and a 3-dollar TV dinner.
Well, guess who walks in alongside me? Yep, some HOT-ASS CHICK who looks LIKE JESSICA BIEL HOLY SHIT MY DREAM WOMAN JESSICA BIEL, you know I’m a fan. And sort of THE BIELSTRESS crossed with JESSICA PARE, that smokin’ hot Canuck who was in WICKER PARK (more like DICK-HER PARK) and STARDOM (more like STARCUM.)
Anyway, I do like a QUADRUPLE TAKE OF SPONTANEOUS BONERAGE, this L.A. 11 strolling in alongside me, but lo and beeeeehold, guess who’s following behind like a lapdog? Some KIP PARDUE LOOKING MOTHERFUCKER, all shag-haired and wearing THRIFT STORE CLOTHES and FUCKING FLIP FLOPS, doting on her every move. Not that I would’ve made a move in a billion years with my fat Daniel Baldwin ass, but they’re all CAREFREE AND IN LOVE, giggling and tittering, and I’m just trying to buy my STOUFFER’S LASAGNA BAKE and bottle of BACARDI and GET THE FUCK OUT, but at every turn, at every aisle, they’re shadowing me like The Third Man, all happy and probably both coated in jizz and on their way home to continue fucking, and at one point the dude’s like fondling her and gets all mixed up and stumbles into my general direction and is nice enough to apologize with, “Oops, sorry man,” and I’m like, “It’s cool” with a DOUCHEY APOLOGETIC smile.
When what I was thinking inside was HOLY SHIT THIS DUDE IS TOTALLY FUCKING THIS CHICK, she’s HOT and this dude is LAYING FUCKING PIPE and has a CHICK TO FUCK and I’m gonna go home and drink MOLSON AND BACARDI while listening to AEROSMITH WHAT IT TAKES (1990) on my Nano and remembering the time I got DISSED at the JUNIOR PROM to this song in ’90 and my life FUUUUUUUUCKING SUCKS and *****IIIIIIIIIII****** want to be taxing the PARE BIEL chick in the sexy heels and LITTLE DRESS, but instead I’m going home to punch the clown to BEST OF VIVID GIRLS 8 which I still have on *VHS* from 1996 that I bought at the RED HOT VIDEO on Sepulveda in VAN NUYS.
LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS.
STOP MAKING JOKES ABOUT SUICIDE!
Really, do you have any fuckin’ sense at all?
On another note, hasn’t Watson said she DOES want to continue acting, but it’s just not the great passion of her life or something? I hope she continues to act. She has more personality on screen than so many actors of her age.
“Oh, wait. She’s going to Brown, not a good school. Never mind.”
US News and World Report has Brown ranked as the 16th best university in the nation (out of more than 1400). I couldn’t care less about Brown, but yours was kind of a confounding dismissal.
As someone who has had a friend commit suicide because of, ya know, actual problems I hope you realise how insulting you come off as, Lex.
Lex, I’d like to thank you. Not because you’ve said anything worthwhile (which you do on rare occasion, in-between your incessant cries for attention), but becaue no matter how low I feel, I can always read something you’ve posted, and realize how good I’m doing. Because at my lowest, I’m still not even as vaguely pathetic as you.
“And I don’t object to the legit discussion of such viewpoints, but the traditionalist opposite is so thoroughly derided at every turn, it’s not a fair fight.”
You and Nicol should move in together and listen to talk radio for more hilarious rightie memes.
Try being a hippie in the Law, Business or Engineering departments of any major university. That’s where the power is. Not a Woman’s Studies Film Class. When did you go to school, Lex?
Lex, what is it exactly that you want? For one of us bloggers here to call the suicide hotline for you? We don’t know your address and the counsellors aren’t going to be very helpful when we try to explain your problems second-hand. To send you a hooker? Again, we don’t know your address. To give you advice on what you should do to become less miserable? We’ve been doing that.
These are all the reasons why it’s impossible to take you seriously when you say you’re suicidal and, therefore, why we think you’re just being selfish and insincere.
“Try being a hippie in the Law, Business or Engineering departments of any major university. That’s where the power is. Not a Woman’s Studies Film Class.”
Can’t speak for engineering but law and business classes are extremely left wing. That is the hypocrisy of it. Remember in Canada it’s the Liberals that have been cozy with Bay Street and the majority of top CEO’s in the States are Democrat. How do you think Obama raised so much cash? From poor college kids sending him their pennies so he could “make a change”? From poor little old ladies sending in their last social security check. Puuuuleeeeze! The first Demo Obama nailed down was academia. That’s why the stereotype that leftists are smarter than anyone in human history and conservatives can’t even spell their name exists.
As for law? Whaaaaaaaa? The legal profession hasn’t being right wing in decades. Where do you think activist judges and laywers comes from? I have taken plenty of law and politics classes and the notion that they are not as hard left as any womyn’s studies course is ludicrous. Quite the opposite, the fundamentals of Marxist oppression theory and Womyn’s Studies classes are exactly what has the biggest influence on legal classes. That’s why you get Supreme Court nominees thinking that “wise latina women” are best suitable for the job.
Remember the wealthiest people in both America and Canada are left wing, not right. Oh there might be some old school WW II generation blue bloods still left, but the George Soros’, Bill Gates’, Belinda Stronachs, Oprah Winfrey’s, Warren Buffets etc. are all left wing.
The notion that business and law are right wing is a left wing mantra left from the 60’s that has no bearing on modern reality.
“Remember the wealthiest people in both America and Canada are left wing, not right. Oh there might be some old school WW II generation blue bloods still left, but the George Soros’, Bill Gates’, Belinda Stronachs, Oprah Winfrey’s, Warren Buffets etc. are all left wing.”
I guess the moral of the story is: if you want make money, vote Dem.
And all that “Old America” money that runs through Academia is just window dressing against Oprah’s mad wealth.
And Nicol, since you didn’t attend an American university and I did, I will repeat myself: John Yoo teaches at Berkeley, where they make weapons systems to keep your country safe. And when I videotaped business classes at Berkeley, I was stunned at the coded language justifying all manner of economic hijinks. And sure, Wall Street is filled with liberals…
And the fact that Sotamayer’s throwaway comment is your sole foundation for faux-FOX-outrage shows the intellectual bankruptcy of the GOP. After all, Pat Buchanan reminded us it was “wise white men” who actually built this country. Good Lord.
Front Page News! Nicol hates education! No one is shocked! World goes on as normal!
Page 83: LexG still pathetic.
Nicol, I really want to grapple with your arguments, but I can’t, because the above, like so many others, is just another well-phrased rant about victimization, delusion, and paranoia. There’s no ‘there’ there. If you look for conspiracies and ‘hypocrisy’ everywhere, you’ll find them. You’re the walking definition of a selection bias.
I mean, it must be hard being such an oppressed quadruple minority (white, male, heterosexual, middle-class) but lobby your MP and maybe you can get some affirmative action to pick you up out of your societally-imposed rut.
Read “The Nine,” Nicol. It details how the Supreme Court, surprisingly, shifted a little to the left when Kennedy and O’COnnor started taking trips to other countries and realized how idiotic, for instance, anti-sodomy laws are. But it also details how it has shifted farther back to the right with Bush’s lame appointments.
Getting back to real life: Summit has slowed the national release of “The Hurt Locker” and put it in some less-than-desirable theaters.
In Hartford the movie will play at a 4-screen arthouse off I-91. I was at that arthouse once (in the late 90’s) and it’s a dump.
Nothing is more ‘real life’ than a Hartford arthouse theater.
‘I mean, it must be hard being such an oppressed quadruple minority (white, male, heterosexual, middle-class) but lobby your MP and maybe you can get some affirmative action to pick you up out of your societally-imposed rut.’
LOL, jeff. bonza
jeffmcm – LOL
Surprised that no one’s mentioned that other teen actors, such as Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields, went to college and then resumed their careers after graduation.
What Leah en-zed said, *Bonza* indeed Jeff, LOL!
And to think the past 10 years I have been working in a profession that is “95% minority”.
It had to be affirmative action that got us there too…you have to Try Hard to get that kind of percentage.
MEGAN FOX is human perfection YEP YEP.
She seems so cool and sexy and funny, I just wish I could eat pancakes with her while she wore an Asian print dress and some heels and called me LEXXY and then at the end she’d invite me up to give her a shoulder rub and then I’d go home and listen to INTERSTATE LOVE SONG and sing into my hairbrush in front of the mirror all giddy like a schoolgirl while she rushed to change all her numbers and called her girlfriends to make fun of me, but for that hour or two, I’d feel like the fucking MAN, I’d feel like THE B.A.G.
Bonus points if she let me rub LOTION on her TATTOOS. IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
You know what would be a runner-up thing that would almost make me happy?
if my building allowed pets. I really love animals and think they’re FAR SUPERIOR to humans…. It would be cool to have a cat or something.
This could be you, Lex:
http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/megan-fox-snubs-boy-transformers.jpg
Right before you get Tasered.
I thought that was Lex…
I just read The Nine. Great book with some fascinating tidbits about the SC.
Nicol, seriously, where do you get your information? I would love to know. Some of the stuff you say is simply not factually correct. It’s not about opinions; it’s just not true. You seem to not know as much about the U.S. as you claim. Do you know why CEOs and the business class voted Obama in 2008 despite decades of voting Republican? Do a simple, basic Google search. I did and found the answer in seconds. They wanted to be on the winning side. After the 2006 midterm elections, they knew what was going to happen in 2008. Those people desperately want to be on the winning team. It isn’t rocket science Nicol. Up until then though those people predominantly voted Republican in America.
Slate Magazine
CEOs for Clinton
Even the ultra-rich are abandoning the Republicans.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007, at 7:48 AM ET
Don’t take this the wrong way, but everything you know about the link between business and politics is incorrect.
For nearly the entire 20th century, a simple formula held: Businesspeople like Republicans and don’t like Democrats. Republican politicians and voters heartily embrace free trade and lower taxes, while Democratic politicians and their constituencies cotton to protectionism and higher taxes. Over the past century, racial, ethnic, and geographic realignments altered the shape of the national parties beyond recognition. But when it came to the wealthy, there was less movement than in the facial muscles of an over-Botoxed newscaster. Until now.
Democrats, who have never out-fund-raised Republicans in the modern political era, are kicking the tar out of their rivals this campaign cycle. Through the first half of this year, Democratic entities