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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
This summer’s best movie is being released on August 20 (and it isn’t Lottery Ticket, The Switch, or The Return of Nanny McPhee: The Mole is Bigger). Too long but moderately amusing. Apparently the movie is going to be easy on the eyes.
Also agree it’s too long but Kelly Brook is CHARMING!
Paul Scheer (+30-40 pounds) pretty much looks exactly how I imagine LexG everytime I read one of his posts.
Swearing is cooler with an accent.
YEP YEP!
YEP YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
My dick just came out of my pants.
IN 3D.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONER.
Hey, if any schlocky horror film deserves Oscar consideration:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2010-08-17-lostskeleton17_ST_N.htm
this guy is on parks and recreations. he’s fabulous.
saw ‘machete’ yesterday, seeing ‘piranha 3-d’ tomorrow…this is a great week!
Mazel tov on speaking the truth re- Denzel Washington’s make-up Oscar. Of course, I’ve said for years that the whole thing could have been avoided had Al Pacino won for Best Actor for The Godfather back in 1972, since Brando was a supporting performance anyway.
LOTTERY TICKET POWER.
Yeah! That bald guy is hilarious. He played Keef, the Kaboom! Playground guy in Parks and Rec.
And holy shit is Kelly Brook a goddess.
Piranha 3D is indeed a glorious and bloody, boobie-filled throwback. In world full of sanitized PG-13 horror, it was great to see some over-the-top violence and gore and some ridiculously gratuitous female nudity. (And I’m gay.) If there’s any justice, this will become the surprise late summer hit. The 3D isn’t worth it though. I saw it in 3D because the theater I went to for the midnight screening only had it on a 3D screen. I will see it again in 2D.
djk — nicely put and i agree completely…however, 3-d really adds to the insanity of it all….