We were wondering how large graphics could be in this new blog design, so I decided to run a test. And who better to be the test rabbit than the co-star of tomorrow’s release, The American, Violante Placido?
There were more graphic images… and not inappropriate to this film… but this one, I thought, captured what she brings to the film without being… well, you know, it’s just a human body… we all have body parts… uh… God works in mysterious ways.
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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
I feel a LexG fit coming on.
A. O. Scott was more bemused than bewitched: “In addition to the priest, he befriends Clara, a prostitute—played by an actress with the splendidly oxymoronic name Violante Placido—who is so stirred by his bedroom prowess that she stops charging him and asks him out for dinner instead. (Some guys get all the breaks.)”
Sounds like he was looking at his iPhone during the movie… which is to say, distracted.
I will write about it in more depth, but I don’t recall the last time I saw a major movie star go down on a woman then engage in what seems to be anal sex… not in the last two decades anyway.
It is a bit male fantasy-ish; it was one of the things that I liked about Any Given Sunday when Al Pacino attempts to do the same thing and is turned down.
Mark Ruffalo and Meg Ryan in IN THE CUT don’t count?
Jeez, SPOILER ALERT!!!
(that’s a joke)
David, I’m having trouble figuring out how to easily go back to a previous blog entry or forward to a newer one. The only way I see is to click on “most Recent” over on the sidebar and then on a particular entry.
Have I missed something?
Also, is there a way to make the comment section NOT save my name and email address between visits?? I might not want a boss or someone else looking over the name I post under.
Er, make that “…looking over my shoulder at the name I post under.”
Also, I want a pony.
JLPPP – The “last entry”/”next entry” thing is coming.
And honestly, I have no idea what the memory rules are for this system.
Fair enough… so long as I don’t invoke, “I said, ‘major movie star!'”
Testing, testing, is this thing on?
And if I log in like THIS, does this screw over my chances of getting an avatar from the WordPress route?
Can’t figure it out…
In MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, it’s pretty much 90% conclusive that Bradley Cooper(‘s character) gives Leslie Bibb a full-on R.J.
And Paul Walker goes down on Vera Farmiga in the opening minutes of RUNNING SCARED.
YEP YEP.
You can disable cookies for this site in your browser… I’m not sure how/if that’ll affect the rest of the site’s functions tho.
Go to “Tools -> Options -> Privacy” (or the equivalent in whichever browser you’re using). There should be a button there to specify which cookies to reject, usually labeled “Sites” or “Exceptions” or something along those lines.
can i ask, why is the text on the main page black, but in the blog comments it turns to not-so-crisp grey? i ask because as my eyesight decays into cryptkeeper territory, reading grey text strains my eyeballs and makes me go googly-eyed (the blue is okay in small doses but too much of that also makes me go googly-eyed)
Thanks, David!
And thanks to you, too F. Squirrel! So far that’s not working for me, but I probably need to do it and then restart the computer so I’ll try that next.
LOL — I just got an error message saying that I’m “…posting comments too quickly. Slow down.”
You’ll need to delete the old cookie first – do a file search for “cookie movie”, it should (eventually) bring up a file called something like “cookie:foamy@moviecitynews.com”.
Delete that to clear your Hotblog name, and blocking the cookie in your browser will make it stop saving a new one.
Erm Lex buddy, no offense but where’s the rant? I’m sure most of us thought of you first thing when we saw Ms. Placido’s beautiful face. It feels odd not knowing what you think about her
Aw… how sweet. The first piece of spam on the new blog.
Yes, we cannot outrun the NIKEHOTSALE! NIKEHOTSALE! NIKEHOTSALE!
Ok I think I’ve got an edit comment link working. You will be able to edit your comment up to 30 minutes from when you post it. I’ve tested it and it works for me. Let us know if it doesn’t work.
Thanks man. That was special seeing