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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
PAQUIN POWER. I might need to do some Jackquin now, if you know what I mean.
VINTAGE PAQ too. Now DO NOT GET ME WRONG, everyone here knows I’m TEAM PAQUIN AS HELL to this very day, but the above is telling:
This clip is NINE YEARS OLD and Jackman looks EXACTLY THE SAME; I have NO IDEA if Paquin’s actively done something to her appearance or if it’s the True Blood lighting and makeup scheme, or if she’s just grown into a certain look.
But she’s one of those actresses who look entirely different than they did just a few short years ago.
Lex, are you kidding? Entirely different than “a few short years ago?” That clip was almost a decade old and both of them look 10 years younger. Paquin looks like a girl (she now looks like a woman) and Jackman looks like he’s in his 30’s (he now looks like he’s in his 40’s and 20 lbs. heavier). And I typed that without even looking up their ages.
Is there something about aging that you don’t understand? They both look a decade younger, and I don’t think you can make a good argument otherwise at all.
BULL TO THE SHIT.
Again, I AM PAQUIN SUPER FAN #1. THERE IS NO DOUBT. She is pure awesomeness and one of the coolest actresses in the world; In 25th Hour, X2, and SQUID AND THE BONER, she is MY DREAM WOMAN.
BUT FACE THE FACTS. On True Blood she looks DIFFERENT. Not better, not worse, just different. A LOT DIFFERENT. The eyebrows and forehead are different. Something is different. And she’s orange.
You also gonna tell me Kate Bosworth looks the same today as she did in 2002? Keira Knightley? Lindsay Lohan? Michelle Monaghan? Again, big fan of all those chicks, but there is something “different” about all of them from four or five short years ago. And it’s not just natural “aging”… and for fuck’s sake, they’re all still in their TWENTIES or early 30s, no?
Tom Cruise has looked EXACTLY THE SAME since 1982. Pitt hasn’t changed since ’88. So why do so many ACTRESSES (NOT Paquin here or necessarily the above mentioned chicks) suddenly gave that troutmouth-John Merrick EXPANDO-FACE look? Buncha beautiful 20-year-old woman suddenly turning up looking like 1997 Rene Russo.
tom cruise doesn’t look even remotely the same now as he did then
a quick photo search and comparison:
cruise at about 18yrs old in ‘taps’ (roughly the same age as 17yr old anna in that clip w/jackman, and similarly baby-faced):
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo78/leahnzwgtn/untitled-1.jpg
recent cruise, looking his age:
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo78/leahnzwgtn/Tom20Cruise-SPX-027075.jpg
wasn’t gonna do pitt but it got stuck in my head so i had a quick look
he was already almost 30 when he did ‘T&L’, so not exactly a babyfaced teen to compare his looks to and age from. but, tight and smooth:
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo78/leahnzwgtn/4046128.jpg
now:
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo78/leahnzwgtn/imagesCARFS3UO.jpg
nah, but for real:
http://i363.photobucket.com/albums/oo78/leahnzwgtn/brad-pitt-w-magazine-february-2009-.jpg
not horrible but certainly far from ‘T&L’
Well, Paquin seems to have lost quite a bit of weight. Plus, the blonde hair.
How much money does Jackman owe to Mission: Impossible II running over its schedule? Would he even have a film career today?
Dougray Scott must cry himself to sleep every night.
Brad Pitt looking noticeably different over the years was even a PLOT POINT in Benjamin Button. Gah.
Wow, people are still responding to Lex posts. You would have thought after he was forced to lay low from embarrassment after he proclaimed The Goods would make 5 billion dollars in one weekend, he would have chilled out some.
THE GOODS.
PIVEN POWER. FUNNIEST MOVIE OF ’09.
That could well be true…but very few of us will ever know, one way or the other.