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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
Has anyone seen “Sound of My Voice”? Is it really a thriller or is it a horror whoring for respect? Any good?
Not exactly a thriller. If you saw the other Brit Marling, “Another Earth,” it’s in that drama-with-vague-supernatural-overtones area, except }Another Earth” was idiotic and “Sound of My Voice” is pretty decent.
Congrats, Mr. President, on finding another issue where you agree with Dick Cheney.
it’s just 3 colors painted . nothing special. why is this worth so much ???
Mark Rothko art sold for record $86.9m – Orange, red, yellow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18001432
Joss Whedon Thanks The Fans For All THE AVENGERS Support
“What doesn’t change is anything that matters. What doesn’t change is that I’ve had the smartest, most loyal, most passionate, most articulate group of — I’m not even gonna say fans. I’m going with “peeps” — that any cult oddity such as my bad self could have dreamt of. ”
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=59425
Agree with chris. Be forewarned that if you’re sensitive to scenes of people choking on something, as I am, there are some really squirm-inducing moments.
1.3 million North Carolinians voted Amendment 1 into law.
7 million Californians voted Prop 8 into law.
So, why is it that North Carolina gets labelled the backwards, bigoted state?
prop 1 is a lot worse than prop 8 in that it also considers civil unions and domestic partnerships…. the number of people it affects is considerably larger than those affected by prop 8….
Thanks for the info, guys. Yes, totally agree on Another Earth. Good to know.
Sanj, (or anyone) where was The Rothko hanging before it was sold? Any idea? I believe I’ve seen it person but not sure if I hadn’t just seen prints of it before.
While Amendment 1 may be more far reaching than Prop 8, North Carolina voters still treated it largely as a law prohibiting same-sex marriage. Something like 60-70% of voters weren’t even aware of its implications beyond that.
Sanj, if its nothing special go ahead and make one yourself and pick up some quick easy millions.
So, why is it that North Carolina gets labelled the backwards, bigoted state?
Because it’s in the South. Duh.
Well, I think it has a lot to do with stereotypes unfortunately.
But also, there’s a map circulating of the counties that were pro and against Prop 1. Out of 100 counties, only something like 7 were against it. All of them were homes to a major university campus.
Granted NC counties are pretty tiny compared to CA, but it doesn’t look like a very progressive state…whereas California has large swaths of progressive counties.
Girls! Girls, please! Both your states are full of bigoted assholes and voters who can barely read!
Oy, don’t these people realize that 30-40 years from now, they’ll be ashamed to tell their grandkids that they had ever voted against gay marriage?
Sound of My Voice is really a tense drama, not a thriller and definitely not horror.
I too liked it a lot better than Another Earth and would recommend it with caution (as in, “here’s why it will or will not fit your personal tastes”) to friends
A rhetorical debate, Bart, but CA was not an amendment to the state constitution, the majority was smaller, and there was a massive push from outside of the state to sway the vote.
DP, actually Prop 8 is an amendment to the CA state constitution.
Do you think that this latest lawsuit will affect John Travolta’s career in any way? Curious to see what people think.
The map of the Prop 8 vote county-by-county doesn’t really look all that different from the Amendment 1 map.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CA2008Prop8-NoColor.svg
http://www.wral.com/news/political/page/10991843/
Urban centers in both states voted against. The rural areas voted for. California just happens to have a higher ratio of urban-to-rural population than North Carolina does.
This isn’t about California being more enlightened across the board than North Carolina. It’s about urban areas versus rural areas.
Groping a masseur? I think he’s safe.
Also college educated vs. not.
Bart, the maps do look different…NC has about 7 out of 100 counties in support of gay marriage. CA has about 14 out of 58 counties. Just judging by the number of counties alone, that’s almost 4 times as much support.
Bart: Actually, the five most populous counties in California all voted for Prop 8 (Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino).
NC and CA are not at all comparable. Prop 8 was going to be defeated until the Mormons flooded the state at the last minute with millions of dollars’ worth of commercials that flat-out lied and said that the defeat of Prop 8 would bring about a ban on heterosexual marriage. They specifically targeted black media because they think that African-Americans are stupid and would be likelier to believe such a blatant falsehood. And it worked just well enough for them to squeak out a very narrow victory.
SOUND OF MY VOICE is okay — you’ll probably like it more if you’re interested in cults and sociology than if you’re hoping for a genre angle (it does contain science-fiction elements, but honestly they’re not very well thought through or explored).
The first 10 minutes or so are chilling, though, in a very quiet and subdued way.
The Met Gala Red Carpet
100 actress pictures = image heavy .
look at them fancy dresses.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/tk-photos-of-the-fabulous-divas-exposed-models-g
But but but Obama is just another Republican!!!!!!!!
And his AWESOME decision might cost him the presidency.
Oh, and I saw this really fun new film called THE AVENGERS. Whedon knows how to make the scenes pop more than any comic book director since Raimi and I give him props for making Sam Jackson interesting for the first time since KILL BILL. Overlong, but the Hulk Loki moment was just about perfect and clearly Whedon knows his Marvel. He even managed to end the film on a wicked Kirby-esque image. Along with the best post-credits scene. I’ll take my niece and nephew so they can cheer along. It’s easy to see why this film is banking it.
sound of my voice … Nobody notices a metal device with a bright green light in a bunch of white apple vomit?
fun stuff – quick takedown of Ashton Kutcher doing a commercial
The Truth with Hasan Minhaj – Ashton Kutcher and PopChips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0I3KGj5dwSw
Waterbucket, 30-40 years from now, everyone will tell their grandkids that THEY voted in favor of gay marriage, and it was those wackos that no one can seem to find who voted against.
Stop it! STOP IT! The United States of America is fast becoming a police state and all you’re worried about is “gay marriage”?
Last time I looked, this was supposed to be a movie-industry site. Amid all the breathless hype for your beloved comic book and superhero movies, I’ve found out something pretty relevant and important.
AMC Theatres switched its online ticketing fulfillment from MovieTickets.com to Fandango a few months ago. MovieTickets.com sued AMC for breaking a contract — now AMC has retaliated by not providing showtimes to MovieTickets.com. How did I figure it out? “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” begins its national release tomorrow and a good number of AMC locations are playing it.
Good detective work. Thank you for shedding light on this vital issue. Fascism usually starts with changes in online ticketing vendors. To think that all these hooples are worried about something frivolous like equal rights when citizens nationwide will not be able to visit MovieTickets.com to find out what time The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is playing at AMC Theaters.
Plus the 50 and older crowd that are going to go to Marigold are not big online ticket buyers.
And does Travolta still have a career to harm? Don’t remember him in anything since Pelham. He’s probably had more comebacks than any other star but given his age I don’t see him doing anything else but supporting roles in the future.
Chucky – never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
The Gangster Squad trailer is OK until gangster rap blares while Sean Penn fires a machine gun in slow-motion. I realize gangster is in the title but still. Cast sure is great though.
Russell Brand, MTV Movie Awards Host: Comedian Will Host June 3 2012 Award Show
should be more fun than oscars …
“30-40 years from now, everyone will tell their grandkids that THEY voted in favor of gay marriage, and it was those wackos that no one can seem to find who voted against.”
Exactly. Just like it’s now impossible to find anyone who voted for Nixon in ’72.
On another topic: Wells gave DARK SHADOWS a mild thumbs-up. What is this world coming to?
Avengers at $775M after 15 days. Insane. Looks like it has a good shot to crack a billion worldwide by Sunday.
Wait The Avengers opened already and made lots of money? What day is it?
The avengers has people talking and is still generating so much strong word of mouth. The brakes arent being deployed just yet. I think the drop this weekend will be less than fifty percent.
And no matter what it ends up with it doesnt even hit Japan until August which could generate a scale tipping amount by this point.
The real story here to me is just how well those iron man thor hulk and captain america blu rays are selling right about now. Id love to see some numbers on that one.
Bummed that Kurt Russell dropped out of QT’s Django Unchained. I hope whoever replaces him isn’t a letdown.
http://www.vulture.com/2012/05/kurt-russell-django-unchained-quentin-tarantino.html?imw=Y
Michael Madsen please.
Oprah is losing money ..big money .
Bloomberg reported last week OWN may have registered losses of as much as $330 million since its inception.
DP should become best friends with Oprah and fix her network. DP is the biz guy…. he knows the numbers. he knows tv programming.
also whats up with Michael Eisner …big ceo of disney with his huge head.
weird how people with a lot of money people can forget about them.
big discussion on hbo programming and what its really worth
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/tgzda/hbo_copresident_eric_kessler_has_said_he_thinks/
I always thought that becoming a parent somehow flips a switch in your brain, making you more sensitive to all kids, not just yours. In the case of Heather Havrilesky it also seems to have killed her sense of humor.
I’ve seen only two of her reviews mentioned on the front page in the last several months, and both made me wonder “When did a bug crawl up her ass and die?” Neither seems written by the woman who gave us Polly Esther at suck.com, which I read religiously back in the day.
TL, DR version: She thinks Bobcat’s “God Bless America” is stupid, ugly trash, no better than the shows it’s attacking.
very cool 2 minute video …
Art of the Instakill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwNVQvygCNQ
DP get a dp/30 of this …looks interesting.
radioman documentary – some dude with a radio stuck to him hangs out with famous actors –
1 minute trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YduWrME8rQ
Followed DP’s link to http://t.co/l7etiEH2 and was pleasantly surprised to see that the first commenter said exactly what I was thinking: if we abandoned all that newfangled citified thinking and went back to the time-tested ways of doing things, we could still own slaves and, well, wives.
But then I shouldn’t have been surprised to see all the dittoheads telling Bristol she’s a genius and a prophet for our times.
I love IFC but what’s with the cropped aspect ratio of Die Hard? The Blu-Ray is 2.35:1, but you’re showing 1.85:1! Is this more common than I know? It just seems outrageous with such a classic anamorphic film.
like this dp/30 – she goes into detail about her acting – like 50% more than other LOOK AT HER!!! dp/30’s .
also rare appearance from DP in the interview and
DP talks films in the last 10 minutes.
too bad she only makes 2 films a year ..
i consider this a classic dp/30 – DP should promote this one on the front page.
Thandie Newton dp/30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK-lyAEyO-0
Give the rich everything they want and it still ain’t enough:
http://pandodaily.com/2012/05/12/what-eduardo-saverin-owes-america-hint-nearly-everything/
Might as well bring back the 90% tax rate. Screw ’em.
And… http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/05/12/views_on_gay_marriage_changing_rapidly.html
Former Bush pollster telling Repubs they’d better back off on gay marriage or they’ll get stomped.
Kevin is leaving g4 …
Attack of the Show: The Exit – 200 comments
http://www.kevinpereira.com/2012/05/attack-of-the-show-the-exit/
he’s doing web and tv content now
http://supercreative.tv/
i’ve been watching g4tv for years. so many people have left the g4 network but they all seem to have real talent.
anybody here watch any g4 tv shows ? they do a lot of
comic book movie interviews and previews …
so most people on the forum should watch but probably don’t .
Great quote from Bobcat:
“I have no interest in making R-rated studio comedies with the sole purpose of entertaining teenagers. I hate teenagers. I think most of them are fucking idiots. Christ, I hated teenagers when I WAS a teenager.”
http://www.vice.com/read/better-off-dead-0000188-v19n4
is blockbuster going to be around this year ?
blockbuster is part of movie history and where are
the movie critics ? if blockbuster shuts down will movie critics care or rant about it ..
i haven’t been in one in like 5 years …. the 2 near me shut down already.
DP really needs to do a dp/30 inside a real blockbuster before it shuts down …
One of the best recent pieces about the passing of video stores is by THE COLOR WHEEL’s filmmaker Alex Ross Perry.
Ray – pretty good article –
hundreds of comments – blockbuster went bankrupt ?
lots of people upset about late fees …
http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/d63qi/iae_a_little_glad_to_be_seeing_blockbuster_slowly/
when or if blockbuster shuts down its stores – there will be 10000 comments on forums but only a few will have the historical knowledge of why it happened …
– that’s where movie critics should come in …
maybe netflix buys the stores and goes into retail ..
maybe a video game company – ebgames / gamestop comes in and buys the stores ….
really want DP or Joe’s comments about blockbuster .. good or bad .
there’s a video game store that has 10000 different video games – mostly the old ones and it survives .
I always found Heather Havrilesky the most obnoxious writer at Salon since her forte was trashing reality shows while clearly enveloped by them — like stuffing your face with cake while complaining about your diet. I wouldn’t expect her to have any good taste as a film critic.