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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
So did LexG end up commiting grievous bodily harm to himself or not?
Guess not.
i hope not. despite contrary opinions or disagreements, i would hope everyone here walks away from the computer without spite, malice, or the intent to harm.
it’s the one thing i can say about online debates/arguments/angry snits. More than likely, i’ve forgotten it in an hour.
As we roll into June, i’m already wondering if this summer is already dissapointing. No film has taken off as a clear cut winner. Star Trek is the perceived winner, though gross vs cost will always leave question marks. Do Harry Potter and Transformers both make 300 million? It doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of anticipation for it. Maybe i’m misreading it, but May was so top heavy with sequels, remakes, and re-envisioning that a lot of the momentum feels spent.
Maybe it’s just me.
Alright, Dave, you need to slam that NYT bullshit about “Princess and the Frog.” You gots to do it.
what bullshit would this be in reference to.
I can *never* gauge the Harry Potter enthusiasm. With each new HP, I’m always kinda thinking to myself, “Eh, another one of these? Surely this is played out by now, didn’t it peak with the Cuaron one, aren’t they all pretty much the same, does anyone still care, etc.” Then it drops and makes like the same exact amount every single time. Funny, even though I remember it being a big story when they pushed this one last November to summer, it’s the one “big” summer movie I can never remember is coming. I almost never see trailers or spots for it.
Might be that it’s just a blind spot for me… I never saw the original HP and thus never checked back in for any of the sequels, even though 3 seemed like it would be awesome. But at 2:45 each, kinda hard to play catch-up five movies in, especially when they’re so obviously designed to be seen in a theater and not on a 36-inch TV.
SORORITY ROW cannot come soon enough. Briana Evigan. Jamie “Real World” Chung. There will be many boners. Looks HOT and AWESOME.
The series has taken a weird turn. 1-2 were kids stuff with no resonance. 3-4 i found really entertaining.
Order of the Phoenix was utterly forgettable. The trailer looks good, but at this point, what film doesn’t LOOK good. The visuals should be the easy part at this point.
Anghus, the story’s right at the top of MCN right now.
Phoenix felt like a TV movie version of Harry Potter. I’m not happy they kept Yates around for the last three flicks, but hopefully his direction will improve from the pedestrian level it had there. And at least Kloves is back to write a decent script.
‘And at least Kloves is back to write a decent script.’
i heard that, blackc
Er, I can see that, Leah. You like OotP?
Brooks Barnes’ NYT piece is a hit-job, but that’s to be expected from the Times. Their coverage of Disney through the years has more often than not been uncomplimentary.
‘Er, I can see that, Leah. You like OotP?’
oh, i’m not sure what you mean, blackc (i’m less than fresh today so my brain is set on ‘stupid’) but i was agreeing with you. and no, i don’t care for ‘order’ at all. i felt annoyed with and let down by both goldenberg and yates (‘ootp’ was a great honk of a tome that needed a good editor and should have been a couple hundred pages shorter, so i don’t envy anyone endeavouring to adapt it for the screen, but still), who completely failed to capture the flavour of the book imho, missing the boat entirely on the rather nasty undercurrent of the story: the sheer toad-like malevolence of umbridge, the chaos, helplessness and despair within the ‘order’, harry’s burgeoning anger and frustration – learning that his father could be a cruel, senseless bully was seminal to his character development in the book and yet it was inexplicably glossed over in the film. instead we were given a dull, watered-down, half-assed muddle with little imagination or zest or evil or emotion or heart. blech.
plus, ‘order’ felt so out of sync with the rest of the series (‘azkaban’ is still one of my all-time fave flicks i’m slightly embarrassed to admit), which had matured somewhat and come into its own while still maintaining a sense of magical wonder, all but lost in ‘order’. as someone who read all the potter books out loud to my son, i must admit i care what happens to harry and the gang, and if yates fucks up the rest of it i’ll hunt him down and stab him through the heart with my BIC ballpoint.
well, not really, but i think my stance is clear(and i am a bit worried for ‘half-blood prince’ after seeing the latest preview in the cinema; my boy turned to me and said sadly, ‘it doesn’t even seem like harry potter anymore’. i hope like hell he’s wrong)
Just a miscommunication, Leah. Since you posted right after me, I thought perhaps you were rushing to defend OotP’s honor. Whereas, in fact, you were rushing to grab some dirt from my pail and join in throwing it on OotP. In fact, you grabbed it from my hand and proceeded to dump it right over OotP’s head. As it is now empty, let me grab my shovel and fill it up again.
Nervous breakdown: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/britain_got_talent/2458062/Susan-Boyle-checks-into-The-Priory-Britains-Got-Talent.html
I think Susan Boyle is literally the future of celebrity.
Warhol told us everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. He didn’t tell us it would be a complete cycle.
Anyone catch the picture of the fans’ sign in that Susan Boyle link?
HOLY SHIT, how many grammatical errors can be made in ONE fucking sentence?????
Phoenix is the best film by a country mile. The fact that anyone disagrees about this, is pretty much smashed in the face by the realities of six and seven. Yates got them for a reason. He made the best Potter film. Feel free to love Azkaban, but Phoenix is where it’s at in real life and at the movies. HOLLA IF YOU HEAR ME!
io: the armond white of the hot blog
Armond White is an annoying prick??
IO: I’m right, you’re wrong. Oh, you’re so fucking wrong, how can you live with yourself. I have nothing to back up my argument, but that doesn’t matter because obviously you suck. My narrow point of view is the only valid point of view. Uppercase, exclamation.
The shame here is that typepad doesn’t have an ignore feature.
armond white IS an annoying prick, plus you can add on pompous, delusional contrarian with all the good humour of a hangman (hell, i actually ADORE io compared to white, come to think of it)
Martin, only assholes on the hot blog feel that way. This is the blog for the would-be banned. All of you take almost everything out of context, and this does not even include me. You lack the ability to put two and two together, but the facts are the facts. Phoenix is a movie that a lot of Potter fans see as being above and beyond as the best Potter. Why do you think people — outside of Warners — wanted Yates to come back to do the TDH? Seriously, stop being a chicken shit, grow a fucking pair, and realize you might have an opinion. This does not mean that reality cannot smack you the fuck right in your honkey face, then stomp of your shriveled bat balls.
We should all just give up and listen to whatever IO says because, apparently, nobody elses opinion matters or, hell, is even worth making light of.
In regards to Potter and Transformers, I’m thinking that the current blahness of the box office could help them. Time will tell though, obviously.
Haha Kam, I can imagine what IO’s Hot Blog utopia would be.
IO: This movie is great. I knew it would be since before I saw it, and as usual I was right. Everyone who disagrees with me? Oh yeah, you’re WRONG.
Everyone else: Oh IO, I am so thankful to you for showing me the errors of my ways. So ARE so right! How could I think any differently, you’re right, you’re always right! I wish I could be right all the time like you, if only I had your amazing taste in film. Maybe… someday…
Warners asked Cuaron — who I bet more people regard as the director of the best Potter film — to come back, too, IO, but he didn’t want to. If he had, we might never have heard from Yates.
I agree with Leah that ‘Azkaban’ is the best Potter movie by far. In my opinion it is the only movie of the series that transcends the book it was adapted from and becomes better than the book. The scenes with Harry saving sirius from the dementors captures what “fanatsy” should look like in movies. I don’t want to see the real world when I watch a Harry Potter movie, I want to see fantasy. It is a very watachable movie in the same way IO mentions Batman Begins. It is the only Potter movie I watch when I see it’s on tv. I don’t dislike OotP or think it is the worst of the series, that would be Goblet of Fire. I don’t like how the movies have shown Voldemort though, it’s not how I pictured him at all.
The facts are the facts. Order of the Phoenix is the best. Fievel has commanded. So let it be written, so let it be done. Pharaoh Fievel has spoken.
I don’t know, I’ve seen all of those Harry Potter movies and they seem about the same to me. Cuaron’s was fine and good, but I reckon the one after it was just as good. I saw the last one in the theater but I can’t remember a thing about it.
Columbus’ films are rightly forgotten about, but while I do like Yates’ films, Cuaron’s is indeed the best to me. Everything from the look of it, to the humourous winks (Harry “playing” with his “wand” under the bed covers, anyone?) Although I also think it has the best story of any of the movies so far. I can’t judge how it worked in the book, but I get a big kick out of all that sort of puzzle solving and the time travel and such. It’s the only HP film I’ve seen more than once and by “more than once” I mean “at least five or six”. It’d rank in my top ten for that year, I reckon.
Who else just saw K-STEW BEING CHARMING AND AWKWARD ACCEPTING HER MTV AWARD?????
K-STEW 4 EVER. PURE HOTNESS.
Put KRISTEN STEWART ON THE $1 BILL. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
K-STEW POWER IN FULL FORCE. MUCH BOWING.
Sorry ALISON LOHMAN your brief reign as #1 GIRL lasted eight hours; Welcome to the TWO SPOT because K-STEW IS BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS.
GREATEST WOMAN EVER.
K-STEW IN CHUCK TAYLORS AND LITTLE DRESS: BOW.
Azkaban is the only one that I’ve wanted to watch multiple times.
Come on, David, give me a Drunken Lex Watches the MTV Awards thread so I can make all these observations in real time (catching the first hour on rerun)…
– That TRANSFORMERS CLIP fucking RUUUUUUUULED; Holy shit, even Bay Haters must have to admit that was THE FUCKING REAL DEAL. FUCKING AMAZING SHIT…. BAY IS GOD. Does Michael Bay read this blog? If not, Don Murphy, tell him that was the BEST CLIP EVER. The man is a GENIUS. NO ONE can direct like that. NOOOOO ONE.
– Samberg is funny.
– HOLY FUCK, Eminem is MY AGE?????? EMINEM IS 36 GOING ON 37?????? Dude looks 17 if he’s a day, which kinda gives lie to his whole badass shtick; To look THAT YOUNG at *36*, dude must be the biggest teatotlin’, non-drinking, non-drugging, healthy-eating health club motherfucker on the planet. Fuck, BURT YOUNG WAS THE SAME AGE IN ROCKY AS EMINEM IS TODAY.
I have this feeling that Don Murphy and Michael Bay have never been in the same room or talked on the phone.
Martin: nope. Sorry, try again later. Seriously, trolls like you ruin this board. You are at least not as bad as that fucking spaz. Who believes wanting to watch again is the same as WATCHING AGAIN! What a fucking spaz.
KC: Uh no. I simply refuse to puss and boot around with these things, and you folks get very sensitive when anyone disagrees with you in a certain way. All of you do it. All of you. So excuse me for giving two bags of David Poland’s piss from his oversized kidneys about what you believe about what’s happening. You guys really think the people reading this blog come here for you? For me? Nah. They come here for Mr. David Poland’s inane ramblings towards all those evil things out there that bump in the dark like Nikki Finke’s vibrator aka “HAAS’S UNIT!”
MORE MTV AWARDS NOMINATIONS, and TRUST THE LEX on this:
ANY of you out there who are still younger or are still blessed with GOOD HAIR, it is your civic fucking duty to GROW IT LONG. It’s fucking PAINING ME watching this to see BEN STILLER and BRADLEY COOPER with AWESOME LONG HAIR, knowing that I can never GO LONG AGAIN thanks to male pattern baldness, or at least on paper I shouldn’t but I pathetically try to grow it out for six months at a time only to have a fucking ditch at the crown and down the middle.
I can barely even remember what it was like to have a FULL HEAVING COIF OF STALLONE AS DEKE DASILVA HAIR in my teens and early twenties. It is a CRUEL HOAX in life to lose hair prematurely, and I can’t do a fucking thing with my hair. So ANYONE HERE who can still GO LONG needs to rock the MICHAEL BAY, ZAC EFRON, SNAKE PLISSKEN, CRUISE IN LEGEND, KEANU IN THE WATCHER head of hair that is AT LEAST SIX INCHES LONG. OTHERWISE you are WASTING HAIR.
GROW IT LONG. SHORT HAIR is the MOST BORING SHIT EVER and KURT RUSSELL’S 1981 is the BEST HAIR EVER. Any man who CAN have long hair but keeps it short is a straight-up dick.
THAT’S RIGHT, POLAND, I expect you to straight fucking Billy Connolly that salt and pepper action. DO IT.
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IT.
Short hair is for FUCKING ASSHOLES.
i got a weakness for guys with longish hair (and serious scruff, a la bale&butler in ‘reign of fire’. oh baby)
OVERFUCKINGRULED! KURT RUSSELL’S “THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES” HAIR IS THE BEST HAIR EVER! FUCK YOU LEXY! FUCK YOU RIGHT IN YOUR ASS WITH A LENGTH OF ROPE AND OWEN WILSON’S OLD PRESCRIPTION BOTTLES!
I had the hair of JEFF BRIDGES IN EIGHT MILLION WAYS TO DIE when I was 18.
Now I look like CHRIS BAUER from 8MM and THE WIRE. Fucking TRAGEDY.
Was on Rogaine for three years and it never grew a single fucking hair. Worst part is I still got the hairline like a regular guy, but when I put the head down, it’s that off-putting ROBERT FORSTER/AL GORE/JAMES CROMWELL shit where you can see scalp.
NO WOMEN will EVER be able to look beyond that. Cue me going WIG SHOPPING yesterday for when I make my YouTube “Sasha Grey rant” video. YEP. GOOD IDEA.
I GOT MAD AMOUNTS OF HAIR THAT RIVAL THAT OF A REGINA SPECTOR SONG! BOW DOWN BEFORE MY GORGEOUS HAIR! Mr. David HEAT RASH Poland would love to have my hair. HE WOULD LOVE IT!
MICHAEL BAY, hire KRISTEN STEWART and light her up all GOLDEN and ORANGE with RED nail polish in an ASIAN PRINT DRESS and BLACK HEELS with RED LIPSTICK and you will MAKE EVEN MORE MONEY.
BAY = MY PERSONAL JESUS. If my dream of being the NEXT BYRON ALLEN ever did come true, my junket with the BAYMAN would be the best episode of CHRIS FARLEY SHOW EVER.
BAY = GOD. THE HYPE STARTS HERE and THE LEXMAN is behind it; THE MAN threw down THE GAUNTLET tonight with the BEST TWO MINUTES OF FILM ***ANYONE*** COULD EVER IMAGINE.
BAY STAKED HIS CLAIM TONIGHT. ****NOTHING**** this summer looks like that. NOTHING.
You heard it from me first. NOT A SINGLE DIRECTOR in this town can put together images, effects, cinematography and MEGAN FOX HOTNESS like that where YOU WANT THAT TO BE YOUR LIFE.
BAY IS BETTER THAN HITCHCOCK. Not a shtick, that’s for REAL.
Oh good, IO is trying to become the new Lex. IO, do you want a column too?
This is like Dueling Banjos with two…well, you get the point.
It’s better than anything else on this blog in 15 years. Seriously, get with it, or get gone. You geezers.