Movie City News Archive for May, 2018

White House Openly Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee For Offense To White House Advisor

By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

White House Openly Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee For Offense To White House Advisor

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TBS

By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Samantha Bee has taken the right action in apologizing for the vile and inappropriate language she used about Ivanka Trump last night. Those words should not have been aired. It was our mistake too, and we regret it. — TBS Network (@TBSNetwork) May 31, 2018

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By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

You know how y'all like to talk about censorship? When the government demands that a television show be canceled, that is actual censorship. — ella dawson (@brosandprose) May 31, 2018

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Keir

By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Keir Dullea is 82, not even 2001 could predict how well he has aged#botd pic.twitter.com/EJuJ0u39c2 — Samuel J. May (@sjmay92) May 30, 2018

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Calculating the Cost of Canceling “Roseanne” for Disney

By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Calculating the Cost of Canceling “Roseanne” for Disney

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Emoji

By Ray Pride - Thursday, May 31st, 2018

It’s official! The plural of “emoji”is “emoji, according to @AP, which also explains how to quote emoji in articles. https://t.co/7j7KSjL2h6 — Jennifer 8. Lee (@jenny8lee) May 31, 2018

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Conservative Streaming Service With Russian Partners, Led By Former Trump Aide, Expresses Interest In Roseanne

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Conservative Streaming Service With Russian Partners, Led By Former Trump Aide, Expresses Interest In Roseanne

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Lawrence Kasdan Reviews His Screenwriting Career For The Times

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Lawrence Kasdan Reviews His Screenwriting Career For The Times

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“The goal of the rebooted ‘Roseanne’ seemed painfully obvious: Normalize the racism and intolerance of Trump supporters for gain and profit. Within a few minutes of posting my observations, I was inundated with talent from ABC and its parent company Disney, everyone who reached out voicing their disgust with the network’s decision to greenlight the reboot. Several aired their concern that a team of liberal comics had been hired in order to traverse the choppy political waters the show would need to get past if it was going to be a cross-demographic hit. ‘This is as cynical as it gets,’ one person wrote. ‘This is putting makeup and a million-dollar dress on pure, unabashed intolerance.'”

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“The goal of the rebooted ‘Roseanne’ seemed painfully obvious: Normalize the racism and intolerance of Trump supporters for gain and profit. Within a few minutes of posting my observations, I was inundated with talent from ABC and its parent company Disney, everyone who reached out voicing their disgust with the network’s decision to greenlight the…

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KROLL & CO. ENTERTAINMENT ACQUIRES JONATHAN LETHEM’S THE FERAL DETECTIVE

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Los Angeles, CA (May 30, 2018) – Kroll & Co. Entertainment, the recently launched production company of producer Sue Kroll, has acquired the rights to Jonathan Lethem’s new novel, The Feral Detective, through her exclusive deal at Warner Bros. Pictures. The highly anticipated novel—Lethem’s first detective story since hisNew York Times bestseller Motherless Brooklyn—sold to Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, and will be…

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RICHARD SUCKLE NAMED PRESIDENT OF ATLAS ENTERTAINMENT

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

  The Academy Award®-Nominated Producer Proves Instrumental In Building Atlas’ Business Across TV & Film   (LOS ANGELES, CA) May 30, 2018 – Today, Atlas Entertainment’s Founder/CEO Charles Roven announced that the company has elevated longtime executive and veteran producer, Richard Suckle, to the position of President, effective immediately.  In his new role, Suckle will work closely with Roven to…

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Weinstein Indicted

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Meanwhile, as the Pulitzer luncheon winds down… pic.twitter.com/S9WA0weXfc — Rebecca Keegan (@ThatRebecca) May 30, 2018

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Asia Argento On Directing An Episode Of “Parts Unknown” With Chris Doyle in Hong Kong

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Asia Argento On Directing An Episode Of “Parts Unknown” With Chris Doyle in Hong Kong

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Rob Thomas Orders, Eats Denny’s Han Solo Co-Reactor Pancakes (With Pop Rocks on Top)

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Rob Thomas Orders, Eats Denny’s Han Solo Co-Reactor Pancakes (With Pop Rocks on Top)

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Alex Garland On Ending Annihilation

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“The element I was always most sure about was the ending, and I was always working toward that ending. The 28 Days Later model is not the way I choose to work now. To be flat out honest about it — there’s no fucking way I want to be in the position of storyboarding endings and shooting…

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Jonnie Rosenbaum Updates “Roman Polanski and The Catastrophe of Public Discourse”

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

Jonnie Rosenbaum Updates “Roman Polanski and The Catastrophe of Public Discourse”

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“This isn’t liberals curtailing free speech, it’s Americans rejecting hate speech.” Writes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“This isn’t liberals curtailing free speech, it’s Americans rejecting hate speech.” Writes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Historian Antony Beevor Resents War Movies

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“More recent imitators lack all intellectual honesty. They throw dates and place names onto the screen as if what you are about to see is a faithful reproduction of events, when they are simply trying to pass off their fiction as authentic. This is basically a marketing ploy that has developed over the last 20…

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Cover-Storying Harvey Weinstein’s Chances In Court

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“I absolutely think this is going to end up in a plea deal because I don’t see the defense as having much shot at being successful.” Cover-Storying Harvey Weinstein’s Chances In Court

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Disney/ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood

By Ray Pride - Wednesday, May 30th, 2018

“Not enough has been said about the many men and women who poured their hearts and lives into the show and were just getting started on next season. We’re so sorry they were swept up in all of this and we give thanks for their remarkable talents, wish them well, and hope to find another…

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“I don’t think it’s cruel to say this, because John himself would undoubtedly have turned it into a gleeful anecdote: When he had the stroke that killed him, he was at a local dinner theater. Hell of a review.”

“I am inclined to aver that every activity needs its critics, from narcissists bloviating in Washington to exhibitors of knee holes in their blue jeans by way of following a fad. So, too, tennis players and others wearing their caps backward. There is, to be sure, only fairly innocuous folly in puncturing pants or reversing caps, but for political or artistic or religious twisting of thought or harboring holes in the head there is rather less excuse. I have always inveighed against the bleary journalism practiced by newspaper reviewers, as opposed to the real criticism performed by, well, critics.”

“I often felt a twinge of grief at the idea that John Simon had devoted his life to a method of work that could only make him increasingly unhappy. Here was a man, elegant, articulate, and vastly knowledgeable, fluent in at least half a dozen languages, whose gifts of mind gave nothing back to the arts he wrote about except a few unkind remarks that made fun of someone’s performance, ethnicity, physical attributes, or, with a pun, on his target’s name. (“If this is Norman Wisdom, I’ll take Saxon folly.”) Other theatre critics keep such darts in their rucksacks for occasional use; John lived by them.”

“One person’s critic is another person’s crackpot. That they are not united in their opinions is ascribable to the Latin saying: quot homines, tot sententiae. I myself prefer being considered a creep, but that is what you get for having what Vladimir Nabokov called ‘Strong Opinions.’ It is odd that in a country so wallowing in negativity, starting with mass shootings and climaxing with Trump, such an unimportant matter as theater criticism should generate so much hostility. The only target patently more important is lead in the drinking water.”

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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