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
i may be remembering this wrong, but didn’t Don team up with some ‘Warriors’ awhile back who ended up hacking into Drew’s email account?
edit – and i’m not implying Don had anything to do with the email hack, but there were some guys from some aint it cool hating site that buddied around with Don, Drew was the ‘common enemy’ and his personal email account got hacked.
I don’t think they hacked his account. They were doing mock-reviews of his scripts with excerpts. That, IIRC, allowed Drew to get the feds involved and woosh – all gone.
That was when AICN was relevant, so we’re going waay back. early 2K’s.
FWIW, I think Don should be unbanned. I still don’t know what the hell he was referring to during the whole Kingo deal, but it read like second-hand info that needed to be cleared up.
Martin S – The “Kingo deal” has been going on for months. Enough already.
I have all the time in the world for people who want to argue what they believe. I don’t have the time to be a nursemaid to people who just want to rage.
Why am I in the “need to be moderated” bunch?
You’re not, TO. What makes you think you are?
Dave – A lot of your early responses to Don seemed just as perplexed as everyone else reading it, which made me think someone slipped poison in his ear. Instead of airing it out, he went obtuse.
Your site, your call. Fine by me.
I’m actually amazed at how long you held out with IO. MCN’s Rupert Pupkin.
Last time I posted, about two weeks ago, I got a message like “awaiting moderation” or something like that written up by my name or somewhere in my post. I think it was Lex who mentioned being frustrated with waiting for his posts to be moderated or approved. I wondered if I hadn’t been swept up in some sorta troll sting operation, being in the wrong thread at the wrong time, maybe.
Good to know.
Jeez, how come all the cool shit happens when I’m out of town with no computer? Arrgghh.