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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” ā 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 ā 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 ā he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” ā and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging ā I was with her at that moment ā 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 namedā” “Yeah, sure ā 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 Iām on the phone with you now, after all thatās 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 didnāt seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. Thereās not a case of that. He wasnāt using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had ā if that were what the accusation involved ā 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. Iām not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, āYou know, itās not this, itās thatā? Because ā let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. TimesĀ piece, thatās what it lacked. Thatās 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
LOOK. AT. THEM.
YAY!!!!
Can’t watch this at the moment, as I’m on a non-QT computer, but I CANNOT WAIT.
This is the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…like…(did i, like, miss any?)
Leah, that’ll be enough of that.
Just LOOK AT THEM. K-Stew is a national treasure and the Most Enchanting Woman of ALL TIME.
Having D-FAN there only sweetens the deal, like if you buy those kind of Oreos where they have half chocolate Oreos, half vanilla. BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, though NO ONE can even approach GOD, aka Kristen, the sexiest, most stunning and hypnotic presence in the history of all time.
LOVE her.
hey, they’re just kids and both of them are fine by me, but someone MUST make k-stew aware of the fact that she says ‘like’ practically every third word — it’s obviously a habit with her and she may not even realise she’s doing it to such an extreme (or she may not even care, but she should because it makes her sound like a bit of a ditz)
Came for the LexG, not leaving disappointed.
Oreos indeeeeed!
oreos indeeeed?
oreos makes zero sense, seeing as both k-stew and fanning are about as vanilla as they come. maybe a packet of vanilla oreos, which is bland to say the least
She just isn’t very comfortable giving interviews. She seems very nervous in every interview I have seen her in. If I am her agent, I would limit her interview opportunities.
“She just isn’t very comfortable giving interviews. She seems very nervous in every interview I have seen her in.”
That’s one of the ten thousand reasons why SHE. IS. SO. INCREDIBLY. SEXY.
Her nervous awkwardness and ultra-serious earnest intensity are RIVETING. Her personality is as much of the appeal as her (INCREDIBLE) looks.
K-STEW POWER. Transcendent.
And mind you, I haven’t even WATCHED IT yet. (Unless it’s that VF interview JW posted that I watched last night and commented on several times.)
K-STEW 4 EVER.
I’m more inclined to believe Lex’s infatuation with Kristen Stewart than anything else he writes. Of all people to be obsessed with, Stewart seems like she has the least in common with his “type” so at least he comes off as a legitimate fan and not some weird bimbo obsessive.
I like that IMDb’s page for Adventureland includes a piece of trivia about how many times the character of “Emily” nervously touches her hair as if that was some character trait that Kristen didn’t invent.
I don’t know, I think I’m a little more forgiving on this one. I think shows that actors are human not machines merely programmed to be someone. I think K-Stew, (I can’t believe I wrote that), was very excited for the role she got to play. She knew the type of person, how to emulate that but didn’t have the words to explain the what and the why behind it. Sometimes I get a little sick of seeing clips of canned responses where the actress may describe the inner conflicts and sensibilities of a character that turn out to be either misleading or over stated.
I honestly don’t mean this as a knock against her but this could just as easily be some girl coming home from her twice a week, $600 intermediate acting class explaining the part she has to play to help her roommate run lines w/her.
I do wonder if Joan’s claws might start to peak out when she hears K-Stew say things like “once upon a time” when relating to the Runaways’ early days.
It would be SO HOT to go on a LITTLE DATE with K-STEW where I break out my iPOD and we listen to GOO GOO DOLLS together, with one bud in each of our ears.
SHE IS SO DREAMY. When I see her it’s like reliving some high school crush all over again…
Kami, she’s not THAT atypical by my usual “type.” Yeah, I like the occasional unapologetic “vixen” like THE FOX, Angelina, or Sasha Grey,
But most of my tastes run toward the earnest, slightly awkward, quirky, sensitive and earnest likes of K-STEW (4 EVER), Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Taylor Swift, Jena Malone, Evan Rachel Wood, Keira Knightley, Emma Roberts, Amy Adams… hardly a parade of “bimbos” or Hustler centerfold types.
NOW I WILL WATCH THIS VIDEO, it will rule.
Which Goo Goo Dolls? The funkrock fusion Incredible Lance Diamond version or the radio-friendly “Iris” version?
NAKED, the BEST SONG EVER MADE, or SLIDE, the 2nd best.
DIZZY UP THE K-STEW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCrs5FSq0U – best song Goo Goo Dolls ever did. š
Too manic for K-Stew, though I like the SAILOR HAT.
Maybe K-STEW would better appreciate some TEMPLE OF THE DOG; She would LOVE IT. Or YELLOW LEDBETTER or something.
But I’d most want to chill with her while like SIX UNDERGROUND by SNEAKER PIMPS plays on my NANO over a soundsystem.
SHE IS A DREAM.
If you’re looking at Grunge-era music, you can’t really go past the Singles soundtrack – nice mix from Jimi’s Waterfalls and Motherlovebone Crown of Thorns all the way through to Mudhoney’s Overblown and Smashing Pumpkin’s feedback-harmony for Drown. If you want to meet halfway between Slide and Temple of the Dog, you can’t really go past Seven Mary Three’s Rock Crown album either.
Rumour also has it that Sneaker Pimps and Marilyn Manson HATED their collaboration for the Spawn soundtrack. I think the only people who got a bump from that were Crystal Method who had some 70% of their material following that album featured either on tv or in a movie.
Foamy: SPAWN POWER. Don’t forget KICK THE P.A., one of the best KORN tracks ever, maybe third only to FREAK ON A LEASH and BLIND (and maybe the subtly titled BALLTONGUE, GOOD SONG.)
DROWN by the Pumpkins is awesome but SINGLES has that genteel Crowe touch… Always good to see anyone else NOSTALGIC for the GREATEST ERA IN THE HISTORY OF MUSIC, aka the MID 90S, where the LEXMAN would drive the FOCUS around Hollywood and park it and go into the VIPER ROOM or THE ROXY and not get laid at all, driving home BLASTING some Marcy Playground/Bush/Kottonmouth Kings/ Eve 6 bullshit on KROQ YEP YEP. BEST ERA EVER.
Crystal Method RULES.
NOW without much further ado, I will watch this video…
While I didn’t hang out at the Viper Room, I do have an Almost Famous/Runaways-esque story or two.
The first concert I ever attended as a teen was a festival lineup that included (among others) Smashing Pumpkins and Soundgarden. A friend of a friend of a friend managed to score two tickets to THE after party with all the bands – the only problem being that there were eight of us. We solved the math problem by two people going in with the tickets, one person taking both of the tickets, exiting, and then handing over the spare to a new person. The security staff had to be the most oblivious people I’ve ever seen as they never noticed this stream of the same people going in/out over the space of 5 minutes, nor that none of these people were even 18 yet.
A few years later I won some more tickets to a festival (no After Party tix this time tho) in a Korn competition. This was during my freshman year at college, and I’d just got back from a semester over in Cali (to give you an idea of what I got up to at the time, I couldn’t even tell you which college I “attended” in Cali). I happened to be wearing a Tick tshirt (greatest show Fox ever cancelled before a full season) and ran into a TV crew – and one of the presenters was a huge Tick fan (complete with collecting all the figurines). They invited me to tag along, so got to hang out with all the bands for the rest of the day (and night).
Tru fax.
Finally watched it.
Verdict: CHARMING. LOVE when K-Stew does the eyebrow crinkle of deep concentration; She is SO instinctual and passionate and honest in every moment.
Dakota is a natural and compulsively watchable, and in any other circumstance would be ruling the day here, but when K-Stew is in frame, you CANNOT take your eyes off of her. SO mesmerizing.
Best actress EVER.
Foamy, you might be delighted to know there were actually three seasons of the Tick animated show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tick_%28TV_series%29
You can find at least the first and the second seasons on DVD, and the third if you import from the UK.
(Based on the timeline in your anecdote I’m assuming you’re not referring to the live action show, which was indeed canceled prematurely.)
Yeah, that was unclear – the tshirt I was wearing was the cartoon version (“Evil Beware!”, probably not an official one since I picked it up off Long Beach) but I was lamenting that the live action version got bumped after 8 episodes with an episode still unbroadcast.
Still, the Tick crew didn’t do too badly – Ben Edlund in particular joined Joss Whedon on Angel and then on to Supernatural, which ain’t shabby for a guy who started out writing offbeat comics at a vanity press.
Tick, the second best series Fox canceled before a full season was finished. The true winner did have Edlund as one of the writers though. Firefly > The Tick (but the Tick still rocks – SPOON!)
And yes, I’m a geek.
EXCELLENT article about K-STEW in today’s LA Times… Even in PRINT, she is mesmerizing, plus the article describes her nervously biting her lip in interviews, so it’s a keeper.
She gets more awesome with each passing day.
K-STEW POWER.