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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
Not so fun fact: died at age 38 from a heart attack after participating in a “Celebrity Aerobathon” fundraiser for the American Heart Association.
I was working at Target when they decided to stop making employees do a few low-impact exercises in the morning huddle after they found that even minimal effort can cause problems for some people. They replaced it with a few stretches…which they discontinued a couple months later because some people still managed to hurt themselves by just reaching up into the air or bending at the waist.
Toss in Douglas Adams and James Fixx, and, well, exercising can be more dangerous than you think.
after looking at Nagel’s artwork – i’d say 75% is copied.
the dark shadows posters look great – they should sell thousands of these signed by the actors ..10 different posters – they could give the money to various charities .
It’s unusually stylish for summer movie poster art. They aren’t trying to tell us anything about the movie, other than that it’s colorful and fun.
Curious to see if that connects with audiences.
The near monochromatic high contrast face-look with hyper-colored hair and accessories is pretty common in very diverse photo/graphic fields I think. Nagel could be a reference but so could many other examples. What’s distinctive for me about Nagel is the minimalism, which the Dark Shadows posters are not really minimalistic.
sanj, from the Nagel wiki page:
“Nagel would start with a photograph and work down, always simplifying and removing elements which he felt were unnecessary.”
So obviously he did start by copying a photograph, unless you mean he often copied himself.
Also, I’m glad the internet exists to let us know little details like how Nagel died, because when he seemed to disappear in the ’80s and I eventually heard that he had died I naturally put two and two together–artsy guy, dying unnaturally young in the ’80s–and came up with the obvious answer: AIDS.
After the revelation about the good doctor Asimov (which came only after his own doctor finally died and was no longer able to whine to the family that he might be blamed for giving a tainted transfusion), I wonder how many more deaths will eventually be exposed as something else entirely.
Hope Eva Green has a meaty role. She’s sort of pissed away a lot of the “look at her” good will from Casino Royale over the last five years.
I too thought of Patrick Nagel when I saw the poster of Johnny Depp. The spiked hair and sunglasses jogged my memory of a poster of a bare shouldered woman wearing sunglasses that seemed omnipresent in poster shops of the time. As a young art director I remember Nagel’s art rep telling me that he had died in his car after an aerobics class. He had just received a clean bill of health from his doctor the week before. This story has haunted me over the years so it is fitting that Patrick Nagel should rise again through posters of Dark Shadows.