April 18, 2024
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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
Can someone explain what the hell is up with Box Office Mojo? They STILL haven’t got their international box office stuff together and their weekend charts feel very incomplete.
prepare to have your mind blown.
Mark McGwire was using Steroids.
I’ll give you a minute. Sit down. Take a drink of water.
Did that come out of left field or what?
True, but as he said, it didn’t help him hit homers or give him extra power. It only helped with his injuries, not his “God-given ability” to hit the long ball. And he only used a little. Big Mac wouldn’t lie.
Yeah, but when’s McGwire gonna cop to phoning in the back halves of the “Load/Reload” albums?
Anyone see INTO THE WILD lately?
You know THAT SCENE? The scene where *GOD* propositions TURTLE FROM ENTOURAGE, and he says NO to her?????
Can I get a Leno-esque “What the HELL were you thinking??????”
Didn’t you get the sense even her laissez-faire hippie family would’ve given Emile a pass? Plus he was gonna starve/freeze to death anyway… Why didn’t that IDIOT just stay behind and play guitar with K-STEW? (Great movie, one of my favorites all around, but damn, dude… K-STEW. Heartbreaking in that movie. She should have won SA.)
BEST ACTRESS EVER. EVER. BOW.
Into the Wild is one of my favorites of the decade Lex. Huge fan. It’s on Showtime a lot and I always watch it when it’s on. Still waiting for the Blu-ray.
It is a masterpiece, and never more so than during Kristen’s scenes. They are so raw and impassioned in their honesty, it is like watching Brando reborn in the most beautiful woman the world has ever seen. And Hirsch’s character as an idiot in that scene.
Watching the entire movie front to bad generally makes me depressed and genuinely upset, but when it’s on Showtime I don’t think I *blink* during THAT stretch.
Agreed, Lex. Any sympathy I had for Snoop Trampy Tramp was gone after he turned down that offer. I was pretty much cheering on his demise by the end of the film. You don’t spit in the universe’s face like that and just get away with it.
Agreed, Lex. Any sympathy I had for Snoop Trampy Tramp was gone after he turned down that offer. I was pretty much cheering on his demise by the end of the film. You don’t spit in the universe’s face like that and just get away with it.
Obviously the Academy felt the same way.
Into the Wild is one of my favorites of the decade Lex. Huge fan. It’s on Showtime a lot and I always watch it when it’s on. Still waiting for the Blu-ray.”
It IS out on Bluray. Bought it long time ago… still haven’t watched.
Good to know. It’s never at Best Buy when I’ve gone there to look for it, and I am guilty of not investigating further.
Since our Sundance premiere is like, way too close (gulp) I wanted to pimp our movie “The Violent Kind” again.
Exclusive clips went up today:
http://www.cinematical.com/2010/01/12/sundance-exclusive-three-clips-from-the-violent-kind/
And an interview with yours truly:
http://shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=13601
Also, join our group on facebook/theviolentkind
This concludes my pimping for the week. Thank you.
Don even though you dig rapists, congrats on the upcoming TVK premiere. See you at the premiere. btw How come there were 10 producers on that film!? Good to see an Akkad step away from the Night The Franchise Came Home too.
Thanks, JBD! I don’t dig rapists in general, just Roman Polanski. Oh, and that hot school teacher from a few years back. H-o-t-t-t. I look forward to seeing you there so be sure to say hi.
There’s 10 producers because it’s hard as hell to raise money in this current climate and because as production went on, people went above and beyond what they were “supposed” to do and earned a credit. I think you’re going to start seeing many more films with shit-tons of producers because money is so scarce for indies.
Into the Wild infuriates me. I feel soooo sorry for that guy.