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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 have to get a bunch of digital press packets from the studios, so use a pic from an upcoming release as the picture for the blog. The more obscure a pic you can use, the better.
Here’s a question: anyone here want to see Hereafter?
I guess not, sir.
Well you know, I am the part of your brain that’s not a Matt Damon mark, so I don’t want to see it. I do want to see JACKASS: 3D because you know… those guys are the close we will get to our very own Buster or Harold.
I would just like to say that this is the only time I will ever post here. How ARE YA!?!?!
Shut up hippocampus! Nevertheless, I guess that I will check it out even though it looks hokey. Not as hokey as the freaking website for Damon’s character in the film but pretty damn hokey nonetheless.
I want to see Hereafter. I think it looks great.
Anyone else see that another right-wing doc is coming out Friday? I never heard of it until yesterday. It’s called I Want Your Money and features “expert” commentary from the likes of Mike Huckabee, John Stossel, Michael Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Andrew Breitbart, and many more. Might make a nice double feature with Inside Job, but maybe just a tad more one-sided with a heavy “Obama is a mean Socialist” message. Hopefully it’s better than Expelled. I’ll catch it on Showtime when it premieres early 2012.
here is an idea
why can’t movie theatres just charge 50 dollars for unlimited movies per month ? theatres can make money
off the popcorn / pop …average person might see 8
to 10 movies per month …
Just some visual suggestions…
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Sanj, subscriptions are the future but the theatre owners might not be in love with that idea. I would reckon they absolutely hate it even if it’s a good idea.
Paul, I had to sit through a trailer for that fucking doc before The Town. I have never been so pissed off by a trailer in all of my life, especially one that features nothing but spending us into debt repubs trying to share ECONOMIC device as if it’s GOOD for the country. Seriously, those people are deranged and docs such as this one demonstrate how absolutely out of it they are.
I’m saddened that the trailer wasn’t featured when I saw The Town. Sounds entertaining. I’m sure it’s good, old-fashioned propaganda, and conservatives must be happy that docs representing their views are making it to theaters. Has Fox News been promoting it at all? Seems right up their alley. The right complains about the domination of liberal docs, so we’ll see if they show up for this.
If it opens to 2mil, I’d be stunned.
I don’t know about the complaint of domination. Agitprop, yeah. Waiting For Superman got a lot of love. The domination issue probably comes the wannabes at Breitbart. I’m more interested in the Inside Job reaction en totale. I know how it would have played two years ago, but not sure today.
I know that to tea partiers she’s a “RINO,” but Kathleen Parker wrote a recent glowing review of Inside Job. She claims it’s fair and balanced and spares no one. Waiting for Superman has received a lot of love, but I wonder how many of its supporters (outside of education of course) have actually set foot in an urban classroom. As someone who has taught in urban schools, I am dying to see it, though I suspect I will have serious problems with it.
there’s gotta be one theatre chain that needs to test
out unlimited movies at a 50 bucks
the theatres would be jammed every hour with 1000-2000
people (4-6 screens) per 2 hour movie…
more people would see double features – more indie movies would be seen . sure the movie studios would make less..
Why aren’t there any documentaries about how people on both sides of the political spectrum are idiots?
Because it does not work that way Keil. One side is simply more idiotic, more hateful, and more downright unamerican than the other side. That’s just how it is at the moment. If this were the late 60s or 70s, then you might have a different story. Right now: the right need to be taken out at the knees and there’s no way around it.
Yeah and one side believes in taking what very little money I/we make and giving it to a bunch of deadbeat welfare lowlifes too stupid to strap on a jim hat.
Yeah Lex, those taxes pay for everything that make driving around in your car manageable. Only in America, are people so ignorant to think paying taxes is a bad thing. God forbid we take care of the kids and the infrastructure!
FUCK TAXES.
Also NO ONE should have kids. And anyone who’s reached fucking age and doesn’t bother to put a condom on, or doesn’t KNOW ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL by AGE 12, does not deserve a fucking handout. They deserve a JAIL TERM.
FUCK THE INFRASTRUCTURE. FUCK TAXES. And most of all, FUCK POOR PEOPLE.
FACT OF LIFE no one mans up and admits: POOR PEOPLE ARE ALMOST ALWAYS STUPID AND WORTHLESS.
Also how come anyone say with pride they’re a LIBERAL?
LIBERAL = DOUCHE. It also = HYPOCRITICAL WINDOW DRESSING to sound good in rich-white-douche circles, but POOR PEOPLE don’t wanna be COLLECTIVE, they WANT TO BE RICH. When it gets down to it, EVERYONE in this country, EVERYONE on this planet is a SELFISH MOTHERFUCKER who just looks out for themselves, and really doesn’t put their money with their mouth is, so AT LEAST REPUBLICANS ARE HONEST ABOUT IT. I find that preferable to a bunch of lily-white Brentwood gaylords pretending THEY REALLY CARE about poor people they’d cross six streets to avoid.
Also ALL HOMELESS PEOPLE SHOULD BE EXECUTED. If they made me PRESIDENT, that would be ORDER NUMBER FUCKING ONE. Just EXECUTE all fucking BUMS. Pieces of SHIT.
Damn Lex. You seem really pissed off today. Everything OK?
No I am not okay.
I haven’t had sex in EIGHT YEARS and I’m fucking sick and tired of everyone traipsing through life GETTING PUSSY and HAVING GIRLFRIENDS.
I want a CHICK TO BANG and I want her to be a WHITE CHICK.
CAUCASIAN VAG FTW.
Sorry to hear that. Wish I could help. Hang in there Lex.
I’m sure I Want Your Money will not outgross Expelled.
Also I AM SO FUCKING UGLY I cannot even face women.
Also I have health issues I don’t discuss here but I probably won’t see 43 thanks to near-fatal blood pressure.
Which is a CATCH 22 because my extreme BP issues are DIRECTLY CAUSED BY LACK OF SEX.
It is LITERALLY KILLING ME.
Come on, Poland, SET ME UP WITH SOME CLUNKY GLASSES FEMALE CRITIC who NEEDS THE DICK.
I can think of about 30 of them who look like they ain’t been fucked since Nixon was in office.
Let’s see who writes me the first COOL IT email of the day, Strollin’ Poland, or grumpy-ass Wells?
Wells, the man who I met and within 20 seconds he’s telling me I need concealer for my pattern baldness. Way to work the room, bro.
A guy who was my best friend for 5 or 6 years (ironically he fell off the face of the Earth when I got married) slept with more women than anyone I’ve ever known. He was 6’3″ and weighed about 260, ran an art gallery, lived in a shitty apartment, and, while in his 30s, could only afford rent, food, and clothes because of his parents. On the surface this was not an attractive guy. But he was incredibly outgoing and extremely funny. I’m more like you Lex. I’ve always been pretty reserved. Being outgoing is easier said than done. You can be hilarious here, and obviously you’re smart. I bet with a little effort you could meet women more happy to sleep with you. In my experience women are not as shallow as men when it comes to looks. Then again, I have never lived in Los Angeles.
I’m sure it’s inadvertent but that RP posting on the Twitter feed is annoying: that “observation” about “Inside Job” costing trillions is actually the film’s tagline.
some guy singing at apple store ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sieir33jk1I
Paul, that’s what I have tried telling him on Twitter, but he is not receptive to this idea.
Stella MD…
I couldn’t get laid in rural Buffalo if there was ONE WOMAN, and my only ONLY competition was some guy who looked like Lou Perlman.
It is 100% impossible for me to get laid. I have hair loss that looks like I survived nuclear winter, and everyone says SHAVE IT OFF, but I have multiple protruding nubs and bumps, I DO NOT HAVE THE HEAD FOR IT.
PLUS I AM VERY UGLY. VERY UGLY. AND FAT.
AND I HAVE MAN-BREASTS. I had C-cup level tits.
And I weigh 247 pounds and have FATAL BLOOD PRESSURE.
180/135 LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER.
Plus I am 100K in debt and drive a 1990 Ford Taurus.
White women in LA don’t date a guy like that. They don’t even TALK to a guy like that.
I think there’s someone out there for everyone. I think you could get laid, even in LA, though I’m sure it’s tough for an average Joe there. You’ve got nothing to lose.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I had a long term gf for many years. Since breaking up (my decision, because I wanted to fuck models and actresses), I have not had a SINGLE DATE, or TALKED TO ANOTHER WOMAN.
AT ALL. AT ALL. Not even SPOKEN to a woman in YEARS.
YEARS.
It is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE to DIE from lack of sex. I am told by doctors I might not live to see 40, with my health problems.
Which are a DIRECT RESULT OF LACK OF SEX.
Do you have a paralyzing fear of speaking to women when you’re out and about? Is that what’s holding you back? You can’t bring yourself to just say “fuck it” and approach one?
This pretty much adequately covers my neuroses about talking to women, as well as MORE THAN ADEQUATELY demonstrates how UNBELIEVABLY UGLY and greasy I am, some pasty half-Mexican beardo tool who will NEVER HAVE SEX AGAIN EVER.
ROLL THE TAPE (skip the deadly first minute, please; Picks up at 1:10):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmYAJdmmz2c
I greatly enjoy the comments on emo kids. Funny stuff Lex. And you’re not an ugly guy. We have pretty much the same facial hair, which made me chuckle. I can’t grow a decent beard to save my life.
If you helped you’d be a LIBERAL DOUCHE.
I’m a liberal pussy. Can’t help it. Just who I am.
Lex, if you make $70,000 a year (as you’ve said before), you make more money than 99% of the world’s population. Which also means that you have a higher standard of living than 99.99% of all people who have ever lived.
Seen it; not bad. Kind of Shyamalanish.
Neither can I Paul but at least I can grow a goatee, even if there’s a space in the middle of it from a piece of lead stuck in my chin since elementary school.
Apparently 70,000 doesn’t make work for him Jeff but it sure as fuck would work for me!
You could get a great pad in West Hollywood for 1200-1500 a month. Which would leave one with about 50k plus for a new car and a trip to Amsterdam every few months. 70k not enough for a single dude in LA? Bullshit.
My SALARY is none of Christian, IO of Jeff’s FUCKING BUSINESS, but I make slightly under 40K.
After taxes, I net about 29K.
$70K is nothing to sneeze at BUT, unless you’re living like a college graduate:
9% sales tax
33% federal
Car insurance (I used to pay $1800/year)
Gas is what now? 3.50/gallon? easily 60$ /week = 3K a year
Drinks a few times a week.
Eating out (nothing too fancy) a few times a week.
Buying some clothes once or twice a year.
Maybe taking a flight or 2 a year somewhere (family, events, etc)
And a nice pad in West Hollywood is not 1200-1500. But let’s say it is. That’s 18K a year.
This shit adds up.
LEX – there’s medication that can help.
And a nice pad in West Hollywood is not 1200-1500.
A one bedroom can be gotten for 1200. I know folks who pay 1500 for two bedroom with garages in Fairfax area. It’s a renter’s market right now fer sure.
Lex, you’ve repeatedly posted your salary and complained 70k is not enough with your bills etc.
“Lex, you’ve repeatedly posted your salary and complained 70k is not enough with your bills etc.”
I got a pay cut.
Lex you have like $80 a day to spend on your entire existence.
Count yourself lucky. You can’t afford a girlfriend.
christ an entire byob about this?
by far the most priceless:
“I had a long term gf for many years. Since breaking up (my decision, because I wanted to fuck models and actresses), I have not had a SINGLE DATE, or TALKED TO ANOTHER WOMAN.”
poetic justice is alive and well
Hey DP – how come you didn’t interview Bruce for a DP/30 ?
All of Bruce Willis’ Bizarre Interviews While Promoting Red
http://tv.gawker.com/5663854/all-of-bruce-willis-bizarre-interviews-while-promoting-red?skyline=true&s=i
who gives a shit about bruce?
why didn’t he interview KARL???!!!
“Movies Aussie Crickets Stormed Out Of”?
Doesn’t look like your headlines are that curated…
Uh…no.
I can’t follow this blog now that it does that branching REPLY TO shit, and a post like Christian’s, which is chronologically most recent is WAY up the page, but…
TOTALLY not a surprise that Christian doesn’t get the AWESOMENESS of JACKASS.
isn’t friday night usually self-pity night @ casa de lex?
apparently, it’s gonna be a long weekend…
Come on over to David Poland’s Hot Blog
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INDUSTRY ANALYSIS!
INTERVIEWS WITH CAST AND CREW OF UPCOMING FILMS!
AWARD SEASON COVERAGE!
AND FEATURING AN INSANE SELF ABSORBED ASSHOLE WHO GOES ON, AT LENGTH, ABOUT HIS INABILITY TO GET LAID AND THE FUTILITY OF LIFE!
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Jackass 3D not playing anywhere in Toronto. WTF!
David, if your looking for a graphic to go at the top, perhaps something in the sad clown genre. Seems to be where this thread is landing.
How could anyone with pride admit to being LexG?
Right, nevermind.
Why would anybody pay money to see jackasses if they’re surrounded by them for free?
Something like this?
….
Because Canada is smarter than us.
Perfect!!!!!
I would keep a spare “chimps throwing feces” picture on file as well. It could always come in handy.
FUN FACT:
My two pet goldfish are named Kristen and Dakota.
I hope this doesn’t mean you’re cornholing the fish.
“FUN FACT:
My two pet goldfish are named Kristen and Dakota.”
And…my mind just flashed to a scene from “The Cell”.
David – how about my suggestion – doing a DP/30 inside
a Blockbuster video store – get Kristen Stewart ….afterwards the place will be packed with twilight fans
they might rent or buy movies and that might just save blockbuster
by the way – i liked the Adventureland DP/30 cause Jesse and Kristen actually answered your questions.
you should put that one up again in flash
LOVELY BONES on HBO a lot lately.
Is Saoirse Ronan, you know… you know… yet? Can she hurry up and be 18 please?
SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIN’.
Stop being creepy Lex.
Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Lex gotta creep.
(I keed because I love.)
check out the corporate synergy
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