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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
We actually filmed Jane Russell at an appearance about 8 months ago for our ugly dog documentary and she was looking her age but still, had that Jane Russell sparkle.
Ms. Jane Russell was one of Hollywood’s true woman. No scandals,no drugs rehabs and no multiple marriages. She was a real down to earth kind of gal. She, my mother and father all went to high school together and maintained a great friendship throughout the years. Growing up I thought she was one of my aunts.
She will truly be missed by those of us who were graced by her love and graciousness.
Ain’t There Anyone Here For Love is really erotic. Hot!
I must be in the minority that thought Jane Russell died a long time ago.
Got to say hi to her last year at the Hollywood Collector’s Show. Cool Lady.
Kingo, did you film all this stuff or are you linking to non original content like the Wrap? Just wondering.
No one has ever claimed to have a problem with The Wrap linking to anything, Don-o. The linking is not what causes content creators to take a loss nor do links inherently generate money for the aggregator.
I’ve been pretty clear about what I object to on The Wrap, HuffPo, Newser, and other places. And if I thought you were doing anything but trying to stir the pot, I’d explain again.
OKay, don’t explain that, explain OH GREAT PROTECTOR of Copyright how you can link to images that are under copyright of the major studios? Or is that your second face turned?
And “Don-O”? King O’ Poland makes sense at least and is funny. You are just reiterating the nickname back at me. Be creative…8th grade “Smurf” 10th Grade “Smurfy”, 12th Grade “Asshole.” I don’t expect much beyond High School from you, Kingo, but if you are going to play, PLAY BETTER!
is this really the proper forum for this debate? kinda sad that an RIP post turns into a pissing match.
Don, playing nickname games with you doesn’t warrant that much thought.
And here are how things roll on YouTube. Studios protect their rights when they choose to and don’t when they choose not to.
I have been on both sides of this. I’ve had this blog, actually, shut down for running a trailer I was given by the filmmaker to run after Sony bought the movie. They didn’t bother to ask me to take it down or to replace it with theirs. They went, as they do, to my ISP and my blog was shut down after I didn’t respond immediately to an e-mail that was not clearly marked as important.
I also have my content “repurposed” on YouTube and by fan sites all the time. If I were a studio, I’d be paying someone to deal with it. Every single one of them does. But I am not. So I eat the loss… whatever that loss means to me.
Since most of my content is now embeddable without stealing the file, essentially, I would hope that this would be the method of using the content on other sites. Having experimented with a private streaming company where I pay for every view and YouTube both, it’s an interesting issue.
As for these clips, they would all be long gone if the copyright owner wanted them down.
I certainly can imagine an argument that this is splitting hairs. But it’s a far cry from taking someone’s content and putting it in my own browser with ads or more to the point of The Wrap/Newswer/HuffPo etc, taking the primary content of a story, copying it and pasting it onto my own page where the headline clickthru goes, and then offering a link at the bottom of the page, knowing the short offering will have been more than enough for most readers.
Back to these clips… they are all well protected… much like the clip of the HBO doc on the Bale character in The Fighter which HBO yanked down quickly after it was discovered. I’d be more than happy to stick :30 second clips from 90+ minute movies to illustrate a career, clearly under Fair Use. And I always research a clip to embed it from the original source whenever possible. So if it’s on NBC, you’ll see it on an NBC viewer here, with their ads running… and if it is unavailable, I ask NBC to make it available and wait.
No doubt, I have infringed at times, with good intentions, but fuck good intentions. Infringement is infringement. And if anyone were ever to ask before threatening, I would pull something down in a second. But it is not a constant business practice to infringe, Don. And I think you know the difference.
Again, if you are serious about the discussion, let’s have it. If you mostly want to call me a hypocrite, great… but yawn.
Sorry you are yawning and tired. It takes a lot of energy to tell everyone in the world the correct way to behave. But then, being King is hardass work.
Of course I am serious and your point is not a strong one sir. There are whole episodes of TWILIGHT ZONE some thief put up on YOutube. YOur argument is that Viacom (the eps are owned by CBS) has not complained therefore it is okay. But Viacom gave up trying to be policeman against scumbag thieves and is suing for a BILLION bucks. They jump in new shit like South Park but maybe they don’t have the time to pursue TZone, older material. It is still theft. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is copyrighted I think by Fox. Maybe they haven’t gotten to the complaint yet. I don’t know. But it is still infringement, so not fair use. And you are encouraging it.
Hypocrite? Only if you say one thing and do another. We both know you don’t even mean what you say.