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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
Looks like God’s trying to upstage Romney’s master plan.
(See how easy that God-stuff works?)
“2012 Republican Convention: Protesters Dressed as Vaginas Greet Delegates”
But I thought Pussy Riot was already in jail.
Well, since the silly trailer brought it up, here’s my two cents’ worth.
I don’t have a vote in the forthcoming election but it really does sadden and shock me to hear the rhetoric of the Birthers coming out again. And this time, turned into a joke by Romney. The way I see it, each and every time the Republicans resort to language like that, they are insulting not only the President but also each and every ethnic minority in the United States. They may not be saying these exact words in public, but they way I hear it, they are saying (to everyone else), ‘you’re not white, so you’re not right.’ And the sad irony is that those who think they are ‘right’ with Romney will soon find that they are not ‘white’ or ‘right’ enough. Because his club is built on exclusivity and while you may be right and white, you won’t be rich enough. And soon, you won’t be well enough. He views everyone that is not like him as servers of him. He is a plutocrat the likes of which American politics has not seen in well over a century. He is going to clobber everyone to make sure that when the next financial catastrophe occurs, he and his ilk will be so well insulated that they won’t even feel it.
And what’s amazing is how willfully tone-deaf the GOP is on the Birther issue. Sadly, the “liberal media” has normalized Birtherism to the point where Romney’s candidacy wasn’t instantly dead with his “joke.” That’s why Chris Matthews expert take-down of Rancid Priebus was startling – look at Tom Brokaw pretend that Romney’s “joke” wasn’t a sop to the bigots. If Birtherism is such a “distraction” why keep Trump at your side?
You know the GOP is smelling fail when the big FOX and AM radio axis talking point is, “The War On Women scare tactics are backfiring on the Democrats.” They have to use their own propaganda on themselves now.
@ThePope:
Oh, so now it’s wrong to insult the president? Give me a break.
And the method of normalization the right uses is to keep moving the goalpost further to the right until the center and eventually the left get dragged into territory that previously marked your end zone.
Thus the increasingly “wacky” comments and platform declarations that seem cribbed from the Taliban stylebook.
@ Keil Shults,
You misunderstand me. There is no problem here with insulting the President. What is a problem is insulting him because of his ethnicity. And that, I believe, is the tone of what Romney and all the Birther comments are about. When someone says something like that, they are insulting all ethnic minorities, of which Obama is one.
Judge, criticize and insult someone for the content of their character, not the color of their skin.