Posted on 04/26/2024 5:20:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
David Mamet is against the initiatives in Hollywood to create diversity, equity, and inclusion, referred to as DEI.
“DEI is garbage,” the author said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, as the Los Angeles Times reported. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”
Mamet has a particular gripe about the inclusion rules the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has implemented for films to be considered in the Oscar Best Picture category.
“I can’t give you a stupid ****ing statue unless you have 7% of this, 8% of that … it’s intrusive,” Mamet said.
He also said, “The [film industry] has little business improving everybody’s racial understanding as does the fire department.”
Regarding nepotism in Hollywood, Mamet doesn’t think his kids have benefitted from his accomplishments in the industry and rather says they learned from being on set, earning them a spot.
“They earned it by merit,” Mamet said about his daughter Zosia Mamet, who starred in HBO’s Girls and most recently in Marvel and Sony’s Madame Web. “They haven’t benefited from any type of privilege.”
He continued, “Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.”
Mamet’s latest book is titled Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood. In the playwright’s memoir, he “describes a world gone by, some of our most beloved film stars with their hair down, and how it all got washed away by digital media and the woke brigade.”
His daughter was in Madam Web? She must have been given the part by someone who hates Mamet but didn’t want anybody to know.
‘ “DEI is garbage,” the author said at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, as the Los Angeles Times reported. “It’s fascist totalitarianism.”’
Well said, David.
Let me just say… I love David Mamet and everything he has ever written. He is an American treasure.
His children may have merited their roles but surely their name got them through the door to be considered at all.
He gave Alec Baldwin his greatest role. I am not sure how much acting was involved, but he nailed it.
This guy’s cultural commentary in the last decade is eloquent and very worth the read.
No one ever complained about Hollywood nepotism before lol.
Always Be Closing......ABC. You have the leads........
I worked in a boiler room in the 70s. Trane Air Conditioning in El Monte CA. It was EXACTLY like that movie!
Indeed!
Gee, where were all the complaints when Barbra Streisand cast her son in The Prince of Tides…. Because he was simply perfect for the role lol.
Always Be Closing!
Did you want him to be on welfare?
He’s great this guy, I had no idea he stood on the sane side politically, you would think given his profession he would be a full blown Marxist, but no, he actually has brains. I must have watch Glengarry Glenross 200 times. The dialogue in that movie is amazing. Even though Alec Baldwin is a schmuck that was definitely his greatest moment as an actor. “PUT DOWN THAT COFFEE!! Coffee’s for closers only!” Or Pacino “Don’t ever open your mouth until you know what the shot is. You’re a f****ng child.”
LOL! But truthfully and sadly, Streisand’s son died of AIDS. Which she of course blamed on President Reagan rather than her son’s homosexuality.
Me too.
Personally, I think nepotism gets a bad rap.
If your father was a cabinet maker, and you spent your entire childhood watching him build cabinets, you'd probably be pretty well equipped to get into the cabinet making business yourself.
Kids growing up watching their parents in the entertainment industry aren't really much different.
Whenever I see someone with the last name of “Patel”, I always think....”Shiva handed him a million dollars, told him “sign the deal,” he wouldn’t sign. And Vishnu, too.”
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