I can’t say that this image actually offends me. I really like the idea of a one-sheet having LP sleeve age marks on it and the brazen idea of the image. The big hit the group had was Cherry Bomb, as illustrated by the real Joan Jett here…
Still… something about the drippy drool coming off of that cherry is a little creepy… a little literal, no?
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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
That poster should have K-Stew and D-Fan, not a cherry light bulb.
It is literally PAINING me that people are SEEING THIS WITH K-STEW IN ATTENDANCE right now (and she’s probably wearing a CUTE WINTER HAT).
2010: THE YEAR OF K-STEW. Rileys, Eclipse, Yellow Handkerchief, and Runaways.
She’s more prolific than 1987 Michael Caine.
ALSO A POINT THAT SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED: A certain other film blogger who’s at the fest claimed that there’s a tame “sex scene” between Stewart and Fanning. NOW, why is it if I were to make an offhand quip like, “D.F. is one to watch; She’s charming and she’ll probably be a pretty hot chick in a couple years,” I’d have Jeff McDouche ALL over me about how I’m a perv and whatnot, like I’m making some lecherous, evil comment about some poor delicate young flower…
…who at age 16 is doing *lesbian scenes* in major movies.
When I was 16, I was listening to Warrant and L.A. Guns and bagging groceries and trying to shoplift Cophenhagen chewing tobacco.
So my question is, when movies, directors, corporations present such things with probable full support of the parents/family, why are viewers, fans, Internet commenters, or some gas station attendent who hangs up a tame, genteel pic of Miley Cyrus, suddenly some kind of perv or eternal scumbag for merely making note of it?
Christ, Dakota Fanning was rolling around darkest Mexico City when shooting a Hollywood movie when she was, what, eight? I’m sure most showbiz kids have seen shit that would make a Tijuana donkey show proprietor blush.
If a young actress’ HANDLERS, people, etc, are so OK with presenting them in such a light, isn’t the onus on THEM, not the spectator?
Teachers wants its poster back.
Holy shit, good call, Massey.
At least this will have 100% more K-STEW and 100% less Judd Hirsch.
Kim Fowley probably thinks that poster’s too subtle.
If this flick doesn’t work out, we’ll always have ‘Ladies and Gentlemen… The Fabulous Stains.’ (Which, in addition to being awesome, includes – times change – nudity and a brief sex scene with an underage Diane Lane.)
Lex, your perviness exists independently of what the object of your lust is or isn’t doing.
Jeff, I don’t even understand what that means.
I also think you equate “perviness” with being a typical heterosexual male. You also blithely (such is your right, of course) ignored the salient point that if the movie, the studio, and everyone involved — often including the actresses’ families — have no qualms about objectifying the actress/pop singer/whoever, why should we as an audience be so damned squeamish and Puritanical about it?
Christ, aren’t there still countries in the world where men choose a teenaged bride? Compared to that, saying “Dakota Fanning is cute” is awfully fucking TAME, dude.
The poster is amazing. Why bring a pedophile into this, Dave? FFS. It’s an eye-catching image to those who haven’t the faintest idea about who or what The Runaways are, but it’s also a nice play on images for those who do (the “Cherry Bomb” that you make reference to).
Lex, I’m not commenting on this poster or this movie, I’m reacting to your specific mention of me inability to have any sense of decorum or dignity about saying what you think. I WISH the limit of your comments was ‘xxx is cute’ instead of all the other queasy things you’ve said over the months.
So to clarify: You’re a perv even when it’s justified by the intent of the filmmakers/marketers, just like how a zebra is striped regardless of whether it’s running from a lion or not as part of its intrinsic nature.
Always amusing when Jeff M. is clearly drunk.
Also, you can GOOGLE MY EVERY POST if you want, I’ve never said anything “queasy” about K-Stew, ever. I ONLY speak of her with the utmost respect and reverence, FACT. As for other “hot chicks,” I might like the young stuff, but you gotta be 18 to play. I’ve never said anything lecherous or “pervy” about anyone who wasn’t FAIR GAME.
Now let’s get back to the point. Look at that pic of Joan Jett, and then look at GOD, aka Kristen Stewart. This is like hiring Megan Fox to portray Ellenor Roosevelt, or Adriana Lima to play Joceyln Elders. Not that Joan Jett wasn’t hot or AWESOME, but come on: KRISTEN STEWART. There is only bowing. When she shows up sweaty in that black mullet, all the problems in the world will be solved.
It’s like when they hired VAL KILMER to play Jim Morrison. Sorry to all you Doors aficionados, as I was once 18, too. But come on: The REAL JIM MORRISON was some boring, bloated POET doing some pretentious organ music. Then you see the Oliver Stone movie, and it’s AWESOME VAL KILMER straight outta 1991 and bagging chicks and wearing a surplus jacket. EXHIBIT 10 ZILLION why movies are better than real life.
If only RUNAWAYS had an awesome AUTEUR instead of whoever directed it (I don’t care enough to look it up, but I’m sure it’s a chick.)
K-STEW POWER. FANNING POWER.
“It’s 1975 and they’re ready to explode.”
They’re not the only ones.
ZING. GOOD JOKE.
Also those two thoughts require a COMMA, as there is a SUBJECT CHANGE between “It’s 1975” (subject the year) and “they’re ready to explode” (subject ‘they.’)
THREE COLLEGE DEGREES.
actually fwiw, a comma isn’t necessary when the independent clauses (“it’s 1975”, “they’re about to explode”) joined by a co-ordinating conjunction (and) are short and simple, which they are in this case
News update, very important:
I love Kristen Stewart.
She is so beautiful and awesome in every way.
Coolest chick ever, in the history of the world. She is SO DREAMY.
Jeff, this video is dedicated to you.
It might broaden your horizons or something. Because it’s AWESOME. This is for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA
BOW.
LexG is absolutely right about this. But it tragically goes both ways. Not only are we bombarded with ‘wholesome and of-course not at all sexy’ images of Disney starlets or teen stars, but as soon as those kid stars actually grow old enough to decide to market their own sexuality for themselves, we call them whores, sluts, and terrible role models for our young virginal girls.
I was certainly not drunk last night. I might have been very drowsy since I had been up since 7am yesterday, but not drunk.
Also, I saw New Moon on Sunday and was surprised at what a terrible performance Kristen Stewart gives in that movie. All mannerisms and actorly tics.
In a way it’s worse that Lex will be sleazy about young women but only after they hit 18. I’d prefer if he just went all the way, it’s like a fat comedian who loses weight…it just shows a lack of commitment to the character.
“The REAL JIM MORRISON was some boring, bloated POET doing some pretentious organ music.”
You just wish you had his hair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECk9A-07Pw
bagging on Jim Morrison? The man was in on the joke. He knew what he was doing. If you think of the Doors as pop performance art it makes the experience far more enjoyable.