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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
The FoxNews crowd is going insano over this. Yes, Carrey portrays gun-lovers as rednecks and Heston as a bumbling idiot, but the worst is that he went for the easy eeny-weeny wee-wee accusation that, even if true, comes off as a cheap insult that only encourages their predictably childish responses.
Instead, he should’ve gone with the statistical reality that righties are intensely fearful and far more likely to shoot a family member seeking a late-night snack than a burglar because asking “Who’s there?” before they open fire might make them look weak.
He stars in a movie that is a sequel to a film that shows a ten year old girl brutally murdering people while using guns. Hypocrite.
Now if someone did a background check on her parents…..
Hey I’m a woman and a responsible citizen(imagine that!)… I didn’t know I was compensating for something, haha! Not to mention he is mocking the dead, who can’t even defend himself. What a pitiful coward Jim Carrey has turned into. #JimCarrey – you lost a lot of fans with that idiotic display. I DARE YOU to live without body guards that carry guns for ONE MONTH. Alternatively, you need to be butt f*cked- or at least living in a daily fear of being raped, mugged or stabbed. You are a MORON! Facts show that more gun control = higher violent crime rates(Research Chicago, Candada, U.K.). Maybe you should go back to school(or at least go to school in the U.S.). #JimCarrey , may you enjoy more than half the country’s hatred, and I hope you learn something from this embarrassing time. It is beyond me why this dysfunctional country is ignoring facts just because they are too embarassed to admit they are wrong. They don’t care about us. This is about power. #JimCarrey , #BarackObama , #HilaryClinton , & #DianeFeinstein ……… they are ALL misguided puppets. The sooner Obama is out of office, the better for our country. There is no right or left, there is only freedom or tyranny. I am a responsible citizen & a registered independent voter. No matter what sorry excuse for a president or any ignorant comedian says, unconstitutional laws are not laws. That’s the reason we have the BOR, so that no smug, dictator-like “president” can change it at any misguided whim. Either way, are they going to ignore more than half the country? Nothing they are trying to do will prevent any gun violence. Stupid, stupid people. I am so ashamed of my country, I hope it survives…
WhiteRaven, have you ever noticed that people like you seem to assume that celebrities know LESS about politics than regular people? Why would that be? I know we are all envious of the podiums celebs are given, but it is ridiculous to assume they are less informed than the average hateful, fearful redneck asshole.
Facts show that more gun control = higher violent crime rates(Research Chicago, Candada, U.K.)
Wut?
If you actually had bothered to research UK and Candada (sic), you would know that their homicide rates are less than half that of the US, and that their violent crime rates are the lowest they’ve been in about 20 years. The myth of the “violent crime spree” in the UK is exactly that – a myth. Despite that guy going on Piers Morgan to say that there’s a huge surge, the only form of crime that has increased recently in the UK is bicycle theft.
Canadian Crime Statistics
UK Crime Statistics
I know its a waste of time trying to use reason with a rabid right-winger, but…
“Either way, are they going to ignore more than half the country?”
Current support for background checks (the main thrust of current gun control measures, despite the hysteric claims of the “they’re gunna take our guuuuns!” crowd) sits around 80%.
So, exactkly which “half” are you referring to??
And Canada…. more violent? Have you even even *seen* a fact?
So, White Raven, just curious: How long have you been wishing anal rape on people who disagree with you?
ITS A JOKE PEOPLE! he is having fun. its great. people will make a big deal about anything these days.. Grow up.
^WhiteRaven:
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If Obama is a “misguided puppet”, then who is controlling him? In the old days folks would’ve hissed “Stalin”, but things have changed just a little bit since then.
It’s far easier to prove the Tea Party “movement” was funded by the Koch brothers, but nobody seems to get much traction by calling them the puppetmasters of the obstructionist right.
“Maybe you should go back to school(or at least go to school in the U.S.)”
HAHAHAHA
I… there are too many things to say.
Perhaps this video, linked to by Roger Ebert’s site, reflects what’s going on in her head. It’s a stunning piece of work (“better than both ‘Atlas Shrugged’ movies put together”), showing an angry group roused to revolution because they don’t want to do…something…that’s supposed to help…everybody?
Yeah, let’s call the riot police because a guy doesn’t show up for work! Although…that work is meant to help those who can’t help themselves.
Gee, is it that hard to make a video extolling the virtues of freedom and liberty without making yourself look like a selfish jerk?
The thing that bothers me about people like WhiteRaven is how deep their fear of everything is. I have genuine social anxiety issues. I get dizzy and sick if I’m surrounded by people, especially if they don’t allow me to move. Interactions with people beyond basic stuff is exhausting, and I mostly keep to myself except for a few friends. I’m not NEARLY as afraid of people as these folks are. That’s what’s scary.
I mean, shit, do you live in fear of being stabbed, raped, and mugged every moment of your life? Do you take a shotgun with you to get the mail? No, I don’t need bodyguards, and due to certain arrangements, I legally can’t own a gun (It’s a long story. Believe me, it’s for reasons other than “evil government”). I work second shift and sometimes don’t get out of work until 1:00 a.m. Sometimes afterwards I have to gas up at a station that gets robbed every other month in the darkest of nights. Do bad things happen? Yes, and more often than we’d like, but I’m not going to be paralyzed by it. And most of all, I’m not going to be paralyzed by people who want to manipulate me and control me in order to make me buy things they tell me I NEED to make me safe. These people talk about others being puppets. There’re few greater puppet strings than fear.
*AHEM* Anyway, I’m just glad Jim Carrey is throwing himself into characters right now and not being paid $20 million to just be Jim Carrey in some half-hearted movie most people forget two months after it’s out (Yes Man, anyone?). I look at the trailers to Kick-Ass 2, and wow, he kinda disappears into the role. For hypocrisy, well, Kick-Ass is a rather dark parody of vigilante heroes even if it glorifies some disturbing aspects more than it should, and I expect the sequel to follow the same lines.
I was more on his case when he was being supportive while he was dating Jenny McCarthy and she was perpetuating the myth about how vaccinations cause autism and other mental issues in children. You wouldn’t believe the number of otherwise reasonable people who buy into that bullshit. But hey, love makes you do weird shit.
Someone needed to parody that right wing gun totin’ freak Heston and Weird Al didn’t do one. Good on yah Jim!
Guess we don’t need any more brain-scan studies showing that right-wingers are motivated primarily by fear.
You have to wonder, though, why they’re obsessed with lethal force. They say they need guns to defend themselves, but they dismiss tasers and pepper spray as ineffective even though your typical baddie doesn’t enter your abode wearing body armor and a gas mask.
Someone at Cracked brought up a great alternative–paintball guns. They can really mess you up, and when the baddie is running away, howling in pain, the paint makes them pretty easy to identify.
Watching Greg Gutfeld, the poor man’s Riki Rachtman, go ABSOLUTELY PSYCHOTICALLY APESHIT about this on THE FIVE for the last two weeks has been the best entertainment on Fox since forever. Especially since Gutfeld is such an obvious FAILED shtickmeister whose chip-on-shoulder about Hollywood is a mile high.
On a related note, how come nobody– and I mean NOBODY– on movie blogs actually WATCHES Fox News? I have it on anytime I’m home, it’s the ONLY news I watch. I don’t even agree with it too often, but it’s great entertainment and frankly, I need to know what my parents are talking about when they talk up HANNITY and GUTFELD and BECKEL like they’re huge names.
I just noticed as much as EVERYONE in the lib-circle-jerk lefty movie community COMPLAINS about Fox News, almost none of them EVER EVER EVER watch it.
I don’t know, is that really much different from criticizing and crying censorship about MOVIES you haven’t seen? If you have any opinion pro or con about FNC, you better at least be fucking watching it round the clock to KNOW YOUR FACTS.
It’s just, I have like 1000 Twitter followers and of all the shit I ever comment on, absolutely NOBODY ever knows what I’m talking about when I talk about THE FIVE or Hannity or Beckel or Shep or Juan Williams or that black guy who looks like Tyler Perry in Good Deeds.
I’m sure the same folks who watched Teletubbies while baked grew up thinking the PTL Club was the height of hilarity, but as with FoxNews there are too many people who take it deadly serious–like that Tea Party video I linked to–which makes it creepy as hell for anyone who is not “one of us”.
Why, then, would we want to subject ourselves to propaganda? We might end up like Michelle Shocked.
I hardly ever watch cable news. Way too much fluff (CNN’s nonstop cruise ship coverage) and people shouting at one another, and the hosts of the nightly shows seem to primarily only have guests who already agree with them on everything. My in-laws watch Fox News 24/7 so I see a lot of it when I visit. I’ve probably seen as much Fox News as CNN or MSNBC in the last 5 or so years. I don’t really like any of them. And didn’t a recent study show that MSNBC is far more partisan than Fox News? While I agree with them politically on most if not all issues, I still find MSNBC’s hosts insufferable.
I doubt WhiteRaven will be back. They probably just search the web for any mention of the NRA or gun control and then do their thing. I bet they never heard of David Poland before he posted the Jim Carrey bit.
“I just noticed as much as EVERYONE in the lib-circle-jerk lefty movie community COMPLAINS about Fox News, almost none of them EVER EVER EVER watch it.”
You really know EVERYONE? Tell ’em all hi!
As usual, you’re wrong. I watch FOX but it’s soul-draining. Greg Gutfeld is the ultimate jealous troll, the wannabe frat boy who was only allowed to video the gang bangs. FOX News is like watching a political game show, the dumbest ever broadcast. And it proves how collectively insane today’s GOP has become. Fortunately, the public has caught on.
Fox News is almost always on in my workplace’s cafeteria. It is mind-numbingly bad, and people on there talk about how liberal Obama is when he’s actually pretty down the middle.
Eric Bolling seems like a great dude, though. He, Brett Baier, Wallace, and Shep are pretty solid.
Re: “Fair and Balanced”
One of the issues (which Jon Stewart covered) is that Fox technically splits its channel in two – the news and opinion. Whenever the “fair and balanced” studies are done, they cover only the segments run by Baier/Shep etc. rather than O’Reilly/Hannity etc. The other stuff isn’t classified as “news” despite the fact they still have the word “News” plastered all over the set and in the bottom corner of the screen.
The second issue is what constitutes “partisan” or “fair”. What often happens is they essentially count the news segments that portray a political candidate (for example) in a positive story, and count the news segments that portray a political candidate in a negative story. However, the underlying assumption is that the candidate is fairly neutral – which often isn’t the case.
If a candidate did 10 good things and 1 bad thing, but the bad thing dominated the news cycle with no mention of the good, then you have a case for partisanship. If a candidate did 1 good thing and 10 bad things, and the bad things dominated the news cycle with no mention of the good, then your case is much weaker. The studies count the number of times a candidate is shown as an idiot regardless of whether the candidate IS an idiot in the first place.
So… ya… take those studies with a grain of salt.
I don’t think Fox is fair and balanced. Anything but. I was referring to this study.
So even though Fox runs a whole lot of opinionated programming, MSNBC actually runs more, according to Pew. CNN was the only one to feature more straight news than opinionated programming.
The methodology of that report is crazy – they basically looked at two fixed half-hour slots and said “what’s playing during that time?” So if MSNBC has scheduled Maddow (for example – I have no idea what was actually running in those time slots) 30mins later the results would have been completely different. You could get a much better split of the opinion/news time by just looking at the programming schedule.
Further, interview segments (regardless of the subject matter) were classified as “opinion” instead of “news” – so asking a genetic expert about how GMO crops are made would count as “opinion”.
It also says nothing about partisanship (i.e. the content of the opinions). Since “opinion” includes subject matter expert interviews, it’s entirely possible under that the entirety of CNN’s “opinions” are political, while a majority of Fox’s are factual experts – meaning that CNN could actually be more partisan, but the study doesn’t give us that information. So using it as an example of how “liberal” MSNBC is would be misleading.
So the study didn’t look at daytime programming? I didn’t examine the methodology. I’m liberal and detest Fox News, but it wouldn’t surprise me if MSNBC is just as partisan as FNC. I’d have to watch way more of all three cable news networks to develop an informed assessment of their opinion versus straight news programming and levels of partisanship, but I just don’t want to.
WhiteRaven’s delusional tirade would appear to prove the old addage, “crazy people don’t know they’re crazy”
I get plenty of Fox on MSNBC and Stewart & Colbert, where clips are regularly shown, followed by factual refutation of the BS they pass off as “truth.” Stewart loves to repeat that clip of Megyn Kelly (in an unguarded moment) saying, “One of the reasons I think we’re so popular is that we make most of this stuff up.”
MSNBC is the ultimate in morning conservative hackery, from Scarborough to Andrea Mitchell and the clown show posse of Chuck Todd (“Mr. President, are you worried this rain has something to do with your falling poll numbers?”) and smilin’ toad legacy, Luke Russert. Chris Matthews can be on point when he isn’t veering into his fantasy white blue collar dreams of Kennedy or worse, cheerleading Bush during the Iraq War and not once calling himself out in the past year’s anniversary of the war. MSNBC still serves corporate masters. FOX IS the corporate master.
And Eric Bolling is the exact kind of dumb meat that picked on the “nerds” in school.
Well, anybody who pays attention knows that the idea of MSNBC being this far-left hive of Dirty Fucking Hippies is just wingnut hackery. But they do at least attempt to be factually accurate, instead of just making shit up.
Jim Carrey is a funny character. Don’t say that i love all his work, but Hillbillies that shoot anything that doesn’t agree with them, e.g. democrats, gays and lesbians , afro-americans , and now Jim Carrey is proof of how stupid these people are.
The second amendment was brought in to protect the good old pilgrims from native indians and the English… It’s definitely not needed , when you have a vigilant policing system enforcing the laws of the land.
Times have changed since the 18th century, only JUST in some parts of the U.S. , but still changed..
One Republican idiot with his idea of having teachers and principals carry guns in class , gives me nightmares about not having done my homework and also makes me think that the U.S. would need to employ Clint Eastwood type teachers from spaghetti westerns , having shootouts in the playground with disgruntled teenagers.
Availability and ease of purchasing guns = more crime statistics… And that is a real fact .. Take a trip to Johannesberg if anyone doesn’t believe me.!
Get rid of the guns…Only police and military.
And the above post is the scariest thing I have read today.
Then you should read some pro-gun sites.