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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
You make a joke about being hurt on a Transformers set a few weeks after a poor woman actually was hurt in an accident on set and you wonder why anyone would think you were an arrogant, stupid ASS. You are beyond an idiot you are insensitive, smug, and a just plain not nice human being. Go fuck yourself Poland.
Dave Poland is not a funny man, that kind of humor is just plain dumb.
What a dickwad!!! Poland needs to get a swift kick in the hole of the ass and then shoved into a pit with sex starved male midgets!!!If being a assho** was a crime this guy would be sentenced under the jail!
Hit-whoring much?
One of those classic cases where the drama from DM overwhelms any concern I would normally have about something being “too soon.” Of course, Don doesn’t really care about the woman or have much to do with the production, aside from using it as a cudgel against me. He’s already assured me that he tattled to Paramount and Dreamworks.
In any case, I do feel bad if this is “too soon” and would edit it now, but it would seem more a reaction to Don than to anything anyone who actually isn’t off their meds has said. If someone from the production who hasn’t spent the last month spamming the site asks, I will take it a lot more seriously.
David Poland, owns a toilet, sewers back-up/ drowns in his own excrement. Now THAT’S irony, smart guy!
David you pompous whiny windbag. I care greatly about the woman. I was on the set two weeks ago in Detroit and everyone there cared about the woman- everyone felt very bad and was torn up about it. So you have some nerve to say that I don’t care or that I am not involved. It wouldn’t be a cudgel against you except that it is disgusting and assholic. There was an accident on set. Someone was hurt. It was NO ONE’s Fault. YOU are trying to turn it into a joke.
And I guess pointing out that you have no credibility = spamming the site now. Genius.
Don’t take it down, I never asked you to. I have screencaps. You are an asshole.
I wonder if these three first-ever commenters are all Don. Have I driven him to release his alters?
“Hit whoring” is my favorite though. Because mentioning Transformers is the way to ring up page views? Doesn’t Helen Keller know that nude photos of the new girl are the way to “hit whore?”
This is David Poland. He loves dark humour. Seriously people, if you have not caught onto this by now, then fucking leave.
Hey, maybe they are people who decided you are an unfunny asshole? Check IPS. You are much less popular than you think.
Not Don, I assure you.
I used to post years ago, when I regularly read your site – before it and your brain went to shit.
@Don Murphy
You ain’t much different.
Sofia Vergara agrees to sleep with me/I drop dead from the shock before I can get my shirt off.
But I am- I take down douchebags daily but have never made jokes about innocent victims. So please only speak when you have knowledge, douchebag.
Ironic, isn’t it Murphy? What a hot mess. Some may call this “karma” perhaps?
Cadavra – Thus proving the line between comedy and tragedy are razor thin. I don’t even know you irl and I’d be crying at your funereal.
My curiosity is who is stuffing the ballot box, all of a sudden. This was an unpopular poll with pretty even voting and now there are a bunch of votes for Bay, as though someone is trying to throw fuel on the barely existent fire.
Well the poll itself doesn’t interest me just the kind of person that would actually post it
It’s already been well-established that Don Murphy is a liar in addition to being a rageaholic bully with too much free time. This is just more of the same.
Don, doesn’t the mountain of cash that you’ve earned from these bad movies insulate you from worrying about problems such as these? If the money isn’t solace, and the films themselves aren’t much to be proud of…what’s the point of it all?
@ Jeff McM
obviously having money doesnt take away DM’ human nature to care about someone who got hurt you fucking moron. people like you is why the human race is doomed.
i cant believe that i actually registered to post something to such dumb human being. please cancel my account, i dont want my email address registered to such a horrible site.
@Avalanche: Don’t you spend enough of your worthless time licking Murphy’s butthole on his website?
@Jeff McM: You are absolutely correct about Murphy. He’s not only a liar but he also delusional enough to think that he can control people from typing complete cyber-gibberish on a daily basis. Murphy has enemies all over the place from having too much free time on the Internet. The only “friends” he has are asskissing nerd groupies that have nothing to do tangibly in entertainment that dwell his website. By the way alot of people stopped participating there, smart move. Murphy is on so many peoples’ shit list that it’s amazing that anyone would want their name associated with his.
don is cool in my book! I like his movies they entertain! If he is a asshole isn’t that standard Hollywood fare anyway who isn’t a asshole in that biz..Now Dave and Don hug it up (No sneak stabbing) and send that woman some really nice freaking flowers!
Oh this is Reg, the extra that got thrown off the Transformers set for being insane. HI REG!
I will always care when someone is hurt by an accident.
You still cleaning out public lavs?
Poland, you are one unfunny son of a bitch.
I think this kind of shit was Wells’ domain. You just proven you are every bit as disqusting and stupid as he is.
Let it be noted that I know firsthand that even the Transformers production doesn’t allow Don Murphy anywhere near the sets. For 3 reasons: he’s nuts, he’s a liar and his own partners don’t like him. That explains why he has so much “free time” typing gibberish on the Internet. He’s probably on anxiety medication.
Why don’t you guys Don and Dave both stop sounding like a couple of katty women from the safety of your computer monitors and lace up some boxing gloves, step in the ring and just go toe to toe like men! Or just drive to whoever’s house first ring the door bell then Bitch slap the hell out of the other guy.
You both sounding really soft right now.
Not sure if that’s a compliment, but death is something we have no control over, and sometimes laughter is the only escape valve (see “Chuckles Bites The Dust”). You’ll also note I made myself the butt of the joke.
@Danny McBride
But Don Murphy IS soft. Just google “Don Murphy gets bitch slapped” and you’ll see:
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Don_Murphy
^ That link summarizes him very accurately, a pussy with keyboard courage that can’t fight to save his own life. I remember reading somewhere of Tarantino walking up to DM in a restaurant and slapped him HARD then Murphy was in a fetal position on the floor by the time the cops arrived. lol!!!
Let me know how to sue you for being a liar and disseminating lies. Lt. Pussy.
You mean the assault that ended with a big payday? FUN!
Yeah $450 is really “big”. When you say “big” you must mean “TINY” like your penis. lol!!!!!!!! Ironic. Since DM edited his own wiki entry after I pointed it out here’s this:
“But put yourself in QTs place, ever since he became known, hes had people taking shots at him in public and in private (which we dont see). He might have had enough of all the BS and thats how he reacted. He also bitchslapped Don Murphy (the fucker deserved it) that time too.”
^ From here:
http://www.tarantino.info/community/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=6817
That wasn’t the number not even close, but you are very very funny.
You know… not really interested in having a “beat up Don Murphy” thread here either. I’m not going to censor anyone, as I haven’t censored Don, but no one wins one of these flame wars.
…especially if you’re going to bring 4chan affiliates into it.
Besides, the biggest douche around here is CLEARLY me.
Oh come on Foamy, you are not that bad.
Pfft… Don knows how douchey I can be.
No I am the BIGGEST douche of them all. KING DOUCHEBAG is what my grandmother used to call me as a wee whipper snapper after I called the cops on her for giving Blowies to the priests in the alley behind the orphanage for 5 bucks! Don and David’s Doughebaggery will never measure up to mine!! Hey David I'[m the one who left that corner drop of juice in the container in your fridge. Now if that ain’t some dougebag magnum shi**.I dont know what else would be.