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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
I wonder how very differently Jon Lovitz’s career might have evolved had Mike Dukakis been elected president in 1988.
The best line from several years’ worth of SNL remains “I can’t believe I’m losing to this guy.”
DP – are you covering Mill Valley Film Fest this year?
Bollywood actress kidnapped and beheaded by actors
Young Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar was allegedly kidnapped and beheaded by two struggling actors in attempt to extort £20,000 from her family.
Sanj: You’re worse than the GOP when it comes to dredging up old news.
i guess it would be bigger news if it were somebody more famous …it would go on for months in the news …like OJ Simpson case
Dude, it happened last April. Let it go.
Lincoln happened a few hundred years ago – Spielberg needs to let it go.
I heard Lana Turner’s daughter killed Johnny Stompanato!
Was that an actual barbed retort from Sanj?
rain room – cool art – 2 minute video
inside look at cool video ad inside ew magazine –
turns out they put a real phone inside …
i can see movie ads doing this with trailers
13 minute video –
Yeah, THAT’s the ticket.
watched the hunger games 2012 – too long – too many closeups – action scenes could be better .
also people in clown makeup control everybody . so that’s new.
watched – DP/30 (LWD) Sundance: Be Kind, Rewind: dir/wr Michel Gondry, actors Jack Black, Mos Def
i liked this interview – these guys haven’t been back for another interview is like 4 years now … the camerawork on this is horrible – not a standard dp/30 .. 8 / 10
still confused why the cannes 2012 dp/30’s aren’t all up ..
seems like most actors / directors have way more important things to say than any normal person ..
Wow. Ridley wanted to cross Prometheus/Alien and Blade Runner?
Man, huh. I would have been way wrong to make that point…good thing I didn’t do that during the Prometheus release, several times…
To those who questioned me when I said many folks were buying e-book versions of Fifty Shades because they didn’t want to be seen with a copy of the book:
“Its success has been put down to the growing popularity of e-reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle, which make it easier for people to enjoy the racy novel without embarrassment over their choice of material. More than 1.5m of the copies sold in this country [England] were e-books.”
My question, though: How many copies would have sold if it was discovered that “E.L. James” was a man? Yes, no man could possibly pen such horribly-written fanfic, but they have been writing S&M pulps for decades and would be overjoyed if they sold 10k copies.
Makes you wonder why no one has reprinted The 120 Days of Sodom or Venus in Furs and marketed them as “the original Fifty Shades of Grey”.
(Or perhaps the real question is just how much is Joss Whedon making off this, since Fifty Shades started out as Twilight fanfic, which in turn began life as Buffy fanfic.)
lets see what he comes up with next – will he last for another year ? he’s also too famous for a dp/30 – DP get MC Hammer for a dp/30 –
PSY’s ‘Gangnam Style’ music video surpasses 400 million views on YouTube
Wouldn’t the reason for Grey’s huge sales in e-book form be that e-book was the original way it was being distributed? It didn’t go the traditional Hardcover-Trade Paperback route, it was an e-book first and then was released in Paperback, so it might just be that since it was the most convienent way to purchase it that was the route people took.
But I have to say it that anecdotaly people don’t seem all that ashamed to carry around a copy, I see the book being toted around everywhere by moms and older women (it was my retired mother’s book club selection a few months ago). Its Blue Tie cover is now as ubiquitious and identifiable out of the corner of the eye as a diet coke can.
Deadline Owner Penske Media Buys Variety
i’m sure DP will have more to say on this but how is Joe dealing with it
also nerdist has new audio interview with Tom Hanks ..
i guess i’m the only one who thinks nerdist and dp/30’s are in competition with each other …
“Or perhaps the real question is just how much is Joss Whedon making off this”
Very likely nothing.
Even in the highly unlikely chance that there was enough left from the fan-fic stage to require royalty payments – he doesn’t own Buffy.
Other than Star Wars and maybe some Jerry Lewis charecters, I can’t think of any IP that is not ourtight owned by a corporation that can do with it as they wish.
Buffy isn’t owned by any corporation, actually. The IP is owned by the husband/wife duo who produced/directed the movie (and technically “exec produced” the series) – Fran and Kaz Kuzui.
(ETA: Or, maybe half and half. Seems they only own partial rights, so Fox must hold the rest)
Ryan Lee – teen actor is probably more famous for a music video than his acting …
this song is featured in pitch perfect movie …
i’m a fan of Guetta music videos – they all look like
they cost a lot of money … i guess thats why music labels exists so artists can make great music videos …
Guetta’s videos usually have 50 million views.
do you guys like the song or video better ?
David Guetta – Titanium ft. Sia hits 100 million + views
its time for you super important movie critics to save a movie festival … maybe its not that important festival and no major movie critics care that much … cause its not tiff. tiff is the most important festival ever.
VIFF to lose its main venue when Granville 7 cinema closes
Granville 7 cinema is closing next month, a decision that threatens the film festival’s viability, festival director Alan Franey says