Really?
Seriously.
This is part of the plan for The HuffPo to be taken seriously as a journalistic institution?
OMFG.
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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
What did you expect? You banned LexG. He had to go somewhere.
GOOD POST.
And it’s good that FluffPo is being called out on their tabloid sleaze. It makes Arianna’s narcissistic self-righteousness easier to deflate. You can take the Woman out of the Republican but you can’t…
I defended huffpo once on this blog, but have to agree with you now, DP. Completely ridiculous. I guess being serious has to be its own reward, because there seem to be no commercial prospects for it.
You beat me to the punch, Drew. I had one in the chamber and ready to fire as soon as I saw DP’s post.
When I want to see Leighton Meester’s crotch. I know there’s only one place to go! THE HUFFINGTON POST! WHERE SHOWING OFF BOOBS IS FUN FOR YOU AND ME! FUN FOR YOU AND ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Only a little racier than your Super Movie Friends videos
They were also leading the way with The Wrap on sensationalized, certainly misleading headlines concerning the death of Tom Sparks (a friend of mine), trying to paint the narrative as “another reality show contestant dies” and then reporting within the piece the truth about a pre-existing condition being the culprit.
Disgusting.
I thought for sure that this was an April Fools-y switcheroo from The Onion or somewhere else, but dammnnnnnnnnn. Does this disaster tie into the release of “2012” somehow? They dirty bombed their own damn blog.
“This is part of the plan for The HuffPo to be taken seriously as a journalistic institution?”
Yes. I think this is exactly what the readers of HuffPo think of as serious journalism.
Have you ever read any of the articles?
So one portion of the news site has a little fun, and it’s suddenly an illegitimate news source? Seriously, you are taking it this too seriously.
The entire site seems devoted to Drudge style headlines, quite often deliberatly misleading in a perpetually sleazy attempt at hits. Does the site need an all-caps bold headline that Arianna crazily wants Joe Biden to quit? Like Kos, she’s become a tiresome narcissist with little insight and a suspicious slide to always seeking liberal division. Like Kos. And both former Repubs. Just sayin’.
Chris, I still have no idea why Arianna wants Joe to resign. That entire article made no damn sense. Absolutely zero fucking sense.
Nevertheless Nicol, you are a Canadian, and you need to go somewhere else to discuss politics. How about hotblog.ca you hoser!
She was just saying that Biden should follow through and resign on principle since he opposes the war in Afghanistan, and it would get a lot of attention. Why Arianna thinks Biden should abandon his country is beyond me.
A whole page devoted just to Lindsay Lohan: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/lindsay-lohan
When Arianna brought her dimwit sleaze-pimp pal Bonnie Fuller on board, you could see where the site was headed. There are great articles on there (i should know) but too much TMZ noise.