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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 is going to RULE ALL.
Cannot wait. Whether it’s a put-on or not, it’s about THE most important things in the world– fame, adoration, and best of all SELF-DESTRUCTION and SELF-SABOTAGE.
NOTHING could be more important.
This is apropos of nothing but Letterman, but:
Lex, be sure to catch the rerun tonight of Nic Cage talking about how The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is based on a poem by Goethe. When Dave asks him what he should know about Goethe, Cage drops some mad knowledge about Faust, about how Ghost Rider is influenced by Faust, etc.
If you miss(ed) it I’ll try to find it on YouTube.
GOETHE POWER. ACKNOWLEDGE.
Does this work?
Here we go (after the 4:00 mark):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cXiNAfF40o
Uh… he “punked” Letterman?
I haven’t seen that interview in a long time… but seem to remember that Letterman looked, acted and talked like he knew it was a put-on the whole time. Or at least suspected as much. He certainly wasn’t impressed by it.
It’s hard to pull an Andy Kaufman on the guy who helped make Kaufman nearly 30 years ago…
I’m actually really excited to see this and it seems to be shot really well. However, I still consider it gross, self-serving, sleazy and almost mean for Joaquin to be doing this seeing as how River went down. Granted, people said River did a bunch of drugs for one of the first times ever, etc….but still. Not cool for an immediate family member to toy around like this.
I’m reminded of William Burroughs’ quote about what he thought “punk” meant…
“I haven’t seen that interview in a long time… but seem to remember that Letterman looked, acted and talked like he knew it was a put-on the whole time. Or at least suspected as much. He certainly wasn’t impressed by it.”
That’s really not the impression I got from that interview. Letterman seemed like he was trying to toy with Phoenix, rather than to get him to slip up. Still, I don’t really claim to know what he really thought. And compared the to Crispin Glover (a sun of a bitch I reall hate), Phoenix was positively a darling.
That said, even after watching the trailer, the whole thing really isn’t that funny or, I don’t know, radical, especially compared to Borat (which I also couldn’t stand but that’s a different point). Even if, in the end, the movie is amusing enough, I just don’t see it doing much for for Phoenix, his carreer, ect.
This is to say, that I, for one wouldn’t be suprised if Phoenix really did go through a phase of sorts, almost definitely not as crazy as the stuff portraied in the movie but something that forced him to do the movie. His anti-drug if you will.
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