{"id":79,"date":"2003-12-08T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T21:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2003-12-08T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T21:19:00","slug":"79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Another upcoming cinematic success for Philip K. Dick<\/strong><\/p>\n

He is, of course, dead. And he never made a whole lot of money. But now Dick is a “brand image,” says his agent, Russell Galen in this story <\/a>from Wired<\/em>, “The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick.”<\/p>\n

“It may be for the best that Dick’s career in Hollywood took off only after his death, because he’d certainly have had a hard time handling it in life. Psychologically, the guy was a mess. His fear of going out in public was so bad it’s difficult to imagine him taking a meeting at a film studio. According to Isa Dick-Hackett, one of three children he produced in five marriages, he couldn’t even make good on a promise to take her to Disneyland when she was little. ‘Twenty or thirty minutes into it, he started to complain of back pain and had to leave,’ she says. ‘Later, I realized the crowds just freaked him out.’ ”<\/p>\n

My connection? Jay Kinney deeply admired Dick’s work. Jay started Gnosis: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions<\/a>. I wrote for Gnosis<\/em> almost from Day One, and I regard that connection as one of my big breaks as a writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another upcoming cinematic success for Philip K. Dick He is, of course, dead. And he never made a whole lot of money. But now Dick is a “brand image,” says his agent, Russell Galen in this story from Wired, “The Second Coming of Philip K. 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