I am an award winning screenwriter. And I can tell you that most scripts are crap and most young writers have not done their homework. They have not read the classics. They have not developed their vocabulary skills. They have not become emotionally developed individuals. And as a result you see childish material being produced. Because many of the people who are green lighting these projects are in the boat as the writers. And the people running are society have failed also.
@BUDDY6414724297 Yes! that is why in the old days you had "artistic movements"; unconformists with the status quo who did their own thing no matter what.
@Nonamearisto That's an understatement. He's an UNBELIEVABLE jerk. Great, he writes well, but enough of this nauseating Harlan idolatry. (present company excluded)
Just found this. Will have to check out Amazon to see if they have the dvd. I met Harlan almost 40 years ago when I was a young teen. I was hopelessly in love. Everytime he ran into me, he would pat my head or pinch my cheek. LOL I used to love his rants, and worshiped every word he wrote and uttered.
I just brought more books of Harlans... im addicted to his stories :) When they come to my house I will have 11 Harlan books including this Sharp Teeth movie. And when my pay comes again i'll buy more lol I cant get enough of his stories.
Harlan Ellison is an amazing writer and one of the most opinionated people on Earth. I respect him for both is writing accomplishments and his personality. He's not afraid to tell someone off and he gets what he wants. There is a certain magic to the man that you don't understand unless you yourself harbor a little bit of the same fire.
For someone who supposedly has such high standards for human behavior, it is ironic Ellison chooses to befriend Neil Gaiman, who funds Scientology to the tune of $100,000.00. Gaiman and his family are listed in Scientology magazines as Patrons with Honors for 2004 and 2006 and Founding US Patron" (denoting a life long oath to support the cult). Gaiman's sister Claire Edwards is in charge of international recruiting.
Neil Gaiman has not distanced himself from Scientology, he just LIES about his involvement. Gaiman is a card carrying member of the CULT. His father's death locked him into a contract with the cult so he could inherit the Gaiman family millions.
but at the same time harlan could not be harlan w/o being harlan completely...warts and all. that's one thing about life, it's so hard to critique the life of someone who's demanding w/o sounding demanding yourself. so many are intolerant, and yet those who combat them get painted with the same brush. one day soon, he, either from fatigue or exasperation with his fellow man, will be dead, and all that will be left will be his words. who knows that in a thousand years he alone may speak for us?
In any case, I'd hate to live my life like Harlan does. Constantly foaming at the mouth over trivialities, tearing fellow human beings apart because of their choices in entertainment, choices in restaurants, choices in music, choices in lifestyles, choices in communication, etc. I'd rather live warts and all, as it were, than to ever have a reason to dress people down verbally the way he does. I am also secure enough with my vocabulary that I don't have to wear it like a wardrobe like Harlan.
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After all, anyone who finds a use for elitist words like 'opprobrium', 'jackanapes', 'bowdlerized', 'festschrift', etc. is simply trying too hard. No one is going to know what the fuck you are saying, so why bother memorizing such overreaching words?
You've obviously never read "Spider Kiss (formerly released as 'Rockabilly')," a rock-n-roll novel that several people attempted to option as a film over the years, including Elvis. I'm sure it can still be located at a Borders or a Barnes & Noble near you.
Like "Doomsman," it was bound and released as a book, which makes it a "novel" IMHO. The reason why it might have been considered a "novella" was that the word length was less than the standards publishers apply to a "novel." Stephen King's collected work "Different Seasons" contained 4 "longer short stories" that could only be marketed as a group because of that publishing restriction. I guess you can't escape politics regardless of your profession!
I don't want to be like Harlan and argue semantics my entire life, but are you sure it can really be considered a novel considering it was published in the same volume with Stalking the Nightmare?
I'm referring to the story in its originally published form as the BOOK "Rocakbilly," not its re-issuance as "Spider Kiss." Spider Robinson once joked in a review column in Galaxy Magazine that Harlan sells stories like a conman sells The Brooklyn Bridge - over and over again. That comment bothered Harlan, so when any new collection of his stories was published he would include either a "lost story" or an original essay so that he wouldn't cheat his readers.
I adore this man because he says what he feels, he's fearless, does NOT, fall to his knees or consume fecal matter to survive. Much of what he says is valid, "the brain is a muscle and if not used, it atrophies!"
He's a colossal ass who loves his ideas more than other human beings. He's a verbal bully who judges people for all the wrong reasons. If he has no literary legacy twenty years after his passing, it will be his own fault. With all that being said, his work is tremendous, but I don't see anything 'romantic' about his tirades. I just see a bitter little man who has chosen to fight all the wrong battles throughout his life.
Not convinced by the "one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century' claim, but hey, imoho, we definitely do live in dispiriting, dank, dim, deranged, dark times, so we need maverickniks like Elllison as much as ever we did.
I once met Harlan in NYC and I thought he was a perfect gentleman! He was kind enough to autograph a book of his before the line officially started and he laughed at one of my jokes! I guess you have to treat him like a HUMAN BEING in order for him to be nice to you! Imagine that! Unfortunately the film came and went in a flash, so I'll have to wait for the DVD with his other legion of fans! Damn!!!
Thanks for the reply. That incident has always stayed with me because it was just so funny. I mean, who gets that worked up over urinals? But I love the mans work and the man himself.
Yeah I do, you pompous, inbred, nosepicking, cumguzzling twatface. Epic douchebaggery. You meant the Connie Willis incident where he grabbed her tit as a gag. It's just that you seem to have such a bug up your cunt about Harlan, I thought Harlan might have given you a nice squeeze. Come on, show us on the doll where Harlan touched you.
Harlan Ellison once yelled at me in a mens room in Atlanta because he thought I was not going to flush the urinal that I was in the middle of using at the time he came in. It was a surreal moment because he had no idea who I was. What if I had been some guy on the edge just waiting for one more thing to piss me off before I went nuts and killed someone? But the urinal was flushed and it seemed to please him. I guess everyone who encounters Ellison has some story to tell about it.
Back in the 1970's, Harlan threw me out of his house after reading a paragraph or two of my short story. I have never recovered after that. My life went from bad to worse and I lived in those tunnels underground riding albino alligators with the aborted kids that lived. No No! Wait a minute. I'm okay today! Really!! But what happened to Harlan? He refuses to believe that there is more to life than growing old and dying. He's lumped everything into a neat little box of 90 years. WAKE UP HARLAN!
I am an award winning screenwriter. And I can tell you that most scripts are crap and most young writers have not done their homework. They have not read the classics. They have not developed their vocabulary skills. They have not become emotionally developed individuals. And as a result you see childish material being produced. Because many of the people who are green lighting these projects are in the boat as the writers. And the people running are society have failed also.
BUDDY6414724297 1 year ago 10
@BUDDY6414724297 Yes! that is why in the old days you had "artistic movements"; unconformists with the status quo who did their own thing no matter what.
italouruguayricano 1 year ago
@BUDDY6414724297
Wait, what did this have to do with the trailer?
lpasepok 5 months ago
My father once edited something made by Ellison. And even HE said Ellison was something to the effect of "jerk."
Nonamearisto 1 year ago
@Nonamearisto That's an understatement. He's an UNBELIEVABLE jerk. Great, he writes well, but enough of this nauseating Harlan idolatry. (present company excluded)
piper4seeformerly 4 months ago
Yeah it's a horn, you douche bag!
RealGladrion 1 year ago 4
@RealGladrion that line always makes me laugh outloud - really funny..
hcvang 1 year ago
Just found this. Will have to check out Amazon to see if they have the dvd. I met Harlan almost 40 years ago when I was a young teen. I was hopelessly in love. Everytime he ran into me, he would pat my head or pinch my cheek. LOL I used to love his rants, and worshiped every word he wrote and uttered.
crchtkath 1 year ago 3
What the fuck was that thing on his chest?!!!!!!
beeroosterm 2 years ago
some kind of make up piece
probably for a guest spot in a movie
Metalhead197 1 year ago
@beeroosterm A cow's utter's sack? Couldn't tell myself.
RedRenegade29 1 year ago
@beeroosterm
Looked like a neck-goiter to me.
welshfilmbuff 1 year ago
Harlan Ellison is an arrogant prick about all the things one should be an arrogant prick about.
zerobeat18 2 years ago 4
@zerobeat18 I tip my hat to you, sir
lehah 1 year ago
Neil Gaiman is a very creepy individual.
Vandomeh 2 years ago
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Vandomeh 2 years ago
I just brought more books of Harlans... im addicted to his stories :) When they come to my house I will have 11 Harlan books including this Sharp Teeth movie. And when my pay comes again i'll buy more lol I cant get enough of his stories.
Trixstien 2 years ago
Who was Hitler's successor and why should you Care?? Watch the video response!
Dasboogiewoogie 2 years ago
Harlan Ellison is a great writer and one scary son-of-a....
cosmospacey 2 years ago 12
Harlan Ellison is an amazing writer and one of the most opinionated people on Earth. I respect him for both is writing accomplishments and his personality. He's not afraid to tell someone off and he gets what he wants. There is a certain magic to the man that you don't understand unless you yourself harbor a little bit of the same fire.
highpriestrsw2 2 years ago 3
He is annoying but in the best possible way.
deepfreezevideo 2 years ago 2
Wait, is this Michael Savage or Mark Levin? I'm confused.
literaryman 2 years ago
I love his work to death. He's a master. But he's also incredibly annoying.
integral 2 years ago 7
For someone who supposedly has such high standards for human behavior, it is ironic Ellison chooses to befriend Neil Gaiman, who funds Scientology to the tune of $100,000.00. Gaiman and his family are listed in Scientology magazines as Patrons with Honors for 2004 and 2006 and Founding US Patron" (denoting a life long oath to support the cult). Gaiman's sister Claire Edwards is in charge of international recruiting.
ExcaliburofLight 2 years ago
Neil Gaimen has distanced him self from that. Plus Ellison was friends with L Ron Hubbard.
almanacofsleep 2 years ago
Neil Gaiman has not distanced himself from Scientology, he just LIES about his involvement. Gaiman is a card carrying member of the CULT. His father's death locked him into a contract with the cult so he could inherit the Gaiman family millions.
ExcaliburofLight 2 years ago
This is on Sundance Channel tonight! And I almost bought the DVD on Amazon yesterday! I'm excited as hell.
GrantOnTheRocks 2 years ago 3
but at the same time harlan could not be harlan w/o being harlan completely...warts and all. that's one thing about life, it's so hard to critique the life of someone who's demanding w/o sounding demanding yourself. so many are intolerant, and yet those who combat them get painted with the same brush. one day soon, he, either from fatigue or exasperation with his fellow man, will be dead, and all that will be left will be his words. who knows that in a thousand years he alone may speak for us?
aachelabelaaron 2 years ago
FINALLY this movie is going to be released on dvd on May 26th 2009---Which is the day before Harlan's 75th birthday!!!!
EllisonRules 2 years ago
It's a prosthetic deformity. He had a cameo in an ABC miniseries installment called "Masters of Science Fiction" (co-written by the man).
Thanks to the original poster "funkypantsmike"
bobthewatchlizard 2 years ago
What's on his neck at 0:20?
valcaron 2 years ago
In any case, I'd hate to live my life like Harlan does. Constantly foaming at the mouth over trivialities, tearing fellow human beings apart because of their choices in entertainment, choices in restaurants, choices in music, choices in lifestyles, choices in communication, etc. I'd rather live warts and all, as it were, than to ever have a reason to dress people down verbally the way he does. I am also secure enough with my vocabulary that I don't have to wear it like a wardrobe like Harlan.
MickieJamesismyslave 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
After all, anyone who finds a use for elitist words like 'opprobrium', 'jackanapes', 'bowdlerized', 'festschrift', etc. is simply trying too hard. No one is going to know what the fuck you are saying, so why bother memorizing such overreaching words?
MickieJamesismyslave 3 years ago
thanks so much for this. can't wait to see the film.
gnrpdenver 3 years ago
You've obviously never read "Spider Kiss (formerly released as 'Rockabilly')," a rock-n-roll novel that several people attempted to option as a film over the years, including Elvis. I'm sure it can still be located at a Borders or a Barnes & Noble near you.
Elric33239 3 years ago
Spider Kiss is a novella, which is a smug way of saying 'short story'.
MickieJamesismyslave 3 years ago
Like "Doomsman," it was bound and released as a book, which makes it a "novel" IMHO. The reason why it might have been considered a "novella" was that the word length was less than the standards publishers apply to a "novel." Stephen King's collected work "Different Seasons" contained 4 "longer short stories" that could only be marketed as a group because of that publishing restriction. I guess you can't escape politics regardless of your profession!
Elric33239 3 years ago
I don't want to be like Harlan and argue semantics my entire life, but are you sure it can really be considered a novel considering it was published in the same volume with Stalking the Nightmare?
MickieJamesismyslave 3 years ago
I'm referring to the story in its originally published form as the BOOK "Rocakbilly," not its re-issuance as "Spider Kiss." Spider Robinson once joked in a review column in Galaxy Magazine that Harlan sells stories like a conman sells The Brooklyn Bridge - over and over again. That comment bothered Harlan, so when any new collection of his stories was published he would include either a "lost story" or an original essay so that he wouldn't cheat his readers.
Elric33239 3 years ago
Harlan would tell you not to be like him, but to be yourself, but then that's just Harlan.
Coelacanth1938 3 years ago
I adore this man because he says what he feels, he's fearless, does NOT, fall to his knees or consume fecal matter to survive. Much of what he says is valid, "the brain is a muscle and if not used, it atrophies!"
I rest my case. Harlan is one of my Heroes.
chicagoSUGANO 3 years ago 3
He's a colossal ass who loves his ideas more than other human beings. He's a verbal bully who judges people for all the wrong reasons. If he has no literary legacy twenty years after his passing, it will be his own fault. With all that being said, his work is tremendous, but I don't see anything 'romantic' about his tirades. I just see a bitter little man who has chosen to fight all the wrong battles throughout his life.
MickieJamesismyslave 3 years ago
I'm a big fan after having read "Alone Against Tomorrow". Great anthology.
ChaosAndAnarchy 3 years ago
Not convinced by the "one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century' claim, but hey, imoho, we definitely do live in dispiriting, dank, dim, deranged, dark times, so we need maverickniks like Elllison as much as ever we did.
JerryX68 3 years ago
GOD, I can't wait to see this flick!
JoyGrenade 3 years ago 2
I once met Harlan in NYC and I thought he was a perfect gentleman! He was kind enough to autograph a book of his before the line officially started and he laughed at one of my jokes! I guess you have to treat him like a HUMAN BEING in order for him to be nice to you! Imagine that! Unfortunately the film came and went in a flash, so I'll have to wait for the DVD with his other legion of fans! Damn!!!
Elric33239 3 years ago 2
Thanks for the reply. That incident has always stayed with me because it was just so funny. I mean, who gets that worked up over urinals? But I love the mans work and the man himself.
lekocafe 3 years ago 3
Yeah I do, you pompous, inbred, nosepicking, cumguzzling twatface. Epic douchebaggery. You meant the Connie Willis incident where he grabbed her tit as a gag. It's just that you seem to have such a bug up your cunt about Harlan, I thought Harlan might have given you a nice squeeze. Come on, show us on the doll where Harlan touched you.
visceralgristle 3 years ago
Yeah, actually, he does. Really, he does.
I think think he's fondled more breasts in his lifetime than workers at a Perdue chicken rendering plant, so I think he's all set with that.
What's the matter, did Harlan grab YOUR breast? If not... relax. Have a coke and a smile.
visceralgristle 3 years ago 2
Yup. Quite a bit more.
visceralgristle 3 years ago
Harlan Ellison once yelled at me in a mens room in Atlanta because he thought I was not going to flush the urinal that I was in the middle of using at the time he came in. It was a surreal moment because he had no idea who I was. What if I had been some guy on the edge just waiting for one more thing to piss me off before I went nuts and killed someone? But the urinal was flushed and it seemed to please him. I guess everyone who encounters Ellison has some story to tell about it.
lekocafe 3 years ago 3
Back in the 1970's, Harlan threw me out of his house after reading a paragraph or two of my short story. I have never recovered after that. My life went from bad to worse and I lived in those tunnels underground riding albino alligators with the aborted kids that lived. No No! Wait a minute. I'm okay today! Really!! But what happened to Harlan? He refuses to believe that there is more to life than growing old and dying. He's lumped everything into a neat little box of 90 years. WAKE UP HARLAN!
netcinema 3 years ago
damn straight! not enough people know about harlan
WASrul 3 years ago 2
How does Robin Williams fit into this?
slackmaster2000 4 years ago
They've been friends for years.
visceralgristle 4 years ago
How did this friendship star?
gooyzit 3 years ago
"Lay-deeees, like the lit-tle He-brew booyyyy!"
LOL!
torgman 4 years ago
Robin Williams was the one who gave Harlan a slip of paper to write a story while in the window..
I think it bcame the story Keyboard in Slippage...
Max314159265358 4 years ago
That was awesome. I can't wait.
trannytammy 4 years ago
I cant wait for this movie, i hope it gets released on dvd!
anton1990 4 years ago
Yes! I so want to see this! I have always wanted to meet Mr. Ellison despite his "reputation"...
Forysan 4 years ago
Fantastic! Can't wait :)
MontyPropps 4 years ago
This looks great! I assume it would come to indie theaters like Landmark?
mephigog 4 years ago
When is this coming out? I must see this film.
sandrino 4 years ago
Can't wait for the release.
jordanowen42 4 years ago 2