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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
Sad about Tim Hetherington. We take for granted the pictures and photos we get from war zones.
Re the “Happy Days” headline: I believe “terps” are dancers, not actors.
“Lindsay Lohan no longer in talks for Gotti movie.”
Like watching the slowest train-wreck in the world.
Think that was a typo, Chris. When we post headlines, the headline is repeated twice on the posting page. He had “perfs” and “terps.” Apparently, changed his mind and didn’t change the second reference. And so it goes…
Heck, those Variety slanguage words are sometimes so obscure, it’s tough to keep ’em straight, anyway.
On another topic, does anybody get the way “Water for Elephants” was treated, press screening-wise? A Wednesday morning screening for a Friday opening usually means the movie sucks hard. But “Water for Elephants” doesn’t.
The whole Lohan thing was shady at best. She’s at that odd announcement conference with V. Gotti, but she never signed any papers and was basically in talks only.
She has no cred and is toxic.
As much as I agree with that, NickF, I’d still bet she’s a better casting idea than Ella Blue is.
WITHOUT SPOILING “Water for Elephants,” can someone tell me if there is some kind of action or disaster movie element to it, which the trailers and TV spots are wholly concealing? The whole campaign is so vague, like “Good-looking misfit joins the circus and meets Reese.” Is that it? Seems like early on, people were mentioning it as being TITANIC-esque, which made me think there was some GIANT SPECTACLE OF DESTRUCTION in store in the second half… But from the trailers it looks like some light, small-budget period romance (which apparently runs 90 minutes and change…)
I honestly can’t tell if this is some $4 million dollar small scale character indie, or some $200 million ACTION EPIC.
If I can’t divine that, how’s the casual viewer gonna know it’s not just some glum all-talk, one-set drama?
SPOILER: There’s a BIG FIRE in the circus tent, but the elephant pees on it and puts it out (hence the title).
And in another scene: The elephant flies.
very sad about hetherington, may he rest in peace. i thought ‘restrepo’ was a fascinating examination of human nature and soldiers in combat – the intense bursts of fight-or-flight adrenaline contrasted with bouts of tedium, the camaraderie contrasted with the loneliness and isolation of soldiers under fire, military discipline contrasted with the inevitable simmering emotions of war, the instinct to simply survive with your mates until you can get home, etc, a ‘right here right now’ POV we are rarely privy to, far more accustomed to fictionalised dramatisations and first-hand accounts filtered thru memory and nostalgia. i’m grateful to hetherington (and junger) for providing their perspective into that specific slice of danger-fraught life.
(and whatever motivates people such as hetherington and the others horribly wounded in libya, i don’t see how one can deny their courage; i can’t even imagine the intestinal fortitude required to insert oneself into a clearly potentially deadly war zone in order to provide insight into what the people there on the ground are experiencing; i guess such losses are inevitable but for me it serves as a sad reminder of just how unbelievably brave hetherington and his ilk are in attempting to record the unvarnished truth so that people hopefully will never forget the living hell that is war)
watching pawn stars on history channel ..
some dude named picasso made this art called
pour roby ..
this thing can be worth up to 1000 bucks .. but
most go for 100 bucks
http://www.basilrcollier.com/Web/Restike_Etchings_files/PourRoby.jpg
looks like a simple drawing but somebody famous made it so it costs a lot.
there’s way too much reality tv on history channel. not enough history.
waiting for a DP/30 with piccasso … maybe he can paint
the twilight cast and make millions off that art..
A mild stampede in “Water for Elephants,” but no. No big action.
the office – i just don’t find it funny anymore – too many characters just not getting enough screentime to be funny ..
i do like outsourced – i hated it at first but the stories are getting funnier and it has as many chracters as the office.
favorite new shows – Happy Endings and Breaking In .. its the stories – they have them.
hey DP – can you spend more time reviewing some tv shows .. a lot of new actors that need a DP/30