BYOB Archive for December, 2009

BYOB – Happy New Year

It was an odd year. So much to mourn… so much to look forward to…
May it be great for all of you.

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BYOB – It's Tuesday!

I don’t really have anything much to write at the moment… but i got sick of looking at the NYT thing at the top of the page…

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BYOB – Up In The Air

What do you think of the film? Here’s a place to air it out…

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BYOB – Sherlock Holmes

What do you think of the film? Here’s a place to air it out…
(And I am personally curious… since it didn’t really strike me strongly, but it has been mentioned in many reviews, including the NYT… is there a heavy gay subtext in this film?)

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BYOB – It's Complicated!

What do you think of the film? Here’s a place to air it out…

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BYOB Christmas

FYI , Christmas Eve (traditional big dip day)- Avatar, $11.3m… Alvin 2, $8.1m… The Blind Side, $1.5m

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BYOB Tuesday, Christmas Eve Eve Eve

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BYOB Weekend – Dec 18, 2009

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BYOB Wednesday

It’s been a little relentless around here…

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BYOB Monday

Morning…
New York Film Critics Circle is meeting as I type. News will be up on MCN as it breaks, around 10a.
We’re getting down to the nitty gritty. BFCA announced overnight. The Globes announce tomorrow. (Our Awards Scoreboard just went up.)
And then, it becomes Avatar Week… for real.

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BYOB – Tuesday, 12809

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BYOB Friday Is Up In The Air

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BYOB MIA

Sorry…
Great DP/30 with Jeff Bridges coming though…
Here is some Gurus o Gold to chew upon…

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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