I highly recommend his latest book Recessional.
Posted on 11/30/2022 4:08:02 PM PST by Rummyfan
America’s most daring and insightful playwright tried to warn us that we were going haywire. By making him a hate object, American theater has made us all poorer.
In response to a positive review in The New York Times of the recent revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, one young theater maker, @harharharbour wrote, “F**k Mamet, there’s nothing he has to say worth hearing. Stop giving racist transphobic playwrights platforms. This show is shit.”
This tweet epitomizes what is now an entirely mainstream, and in some circles mandatory, view of David Alan Mamet, 74, of Chicago, the great American writer of Glengarry Glen Ross, The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa, Wag the Dog, Oleanna, and a mountain of other novels, books, essays, plays, and even cartoons. Mamet must be canceled. The “trash”—as Tony-winning actor and writer Colman Domingo writes—must be taken out. But as we Jews have learned all too often the hard way, silencing our prophets is usually a mistake.
Mamet’s most recent book, Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch, came out in April. It’s very good, though on the surface at least not nearly as thrilling as his 2012 The Secret Knowledge, a book of political essays which in turn seemed cranky when it was first published but predicted with shocking acuity the cultural and political turmoil we now face.
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I highly recommend his latest book Recessional.
No deviation is permitted.
I’m buying that book now..
Glengarry Glen Ross and The Untouchables are both outstanding.
I read his essay and it was something else.
I figure if you don’t become the object of general scorn and derision at least once in your life, then you either have no spine or the wrong principles.
The neo-Marxists have to be purged.
“Heist” from 2001 was pretty good too. Not top shelf like the 2 you mentioned, but entertaining and a great cast.
The vile and depraved see nothing higher or nobler than transgenderism, not even homosexuality — the slightly older social fetish. It seems to be the end all be all of virtue to those in the express lane on the broad road that leads to destruction.
“Dennis Prager said the only thing that the Left has been successful at is in demonizing the Right and they demonized the hell out of the Jews so bad they can’t think clearly. My great aunt lives in Chicago and she’s 91 years old and she said you know ‘things have gotten so bad over here, the taxes are so bad, the homelessness is so bad, these kids are killing each other every week on the south side of Chicago and my friends had to move from a wonderful apartment because when they took over Michigan Avenue they got into the lobby of her building and things just couldn’t be worse’ and I said you know ‘Well keep voting democratic!’ and there was this long long long long pause and any of us who are Conservative know that pause and that look on the face of the Liberal and it’s a look of aphasia.”
My tagline.
If only we had a political party that would call out these insane evil fascistic communists.
I’ve never seen it. Thanks for the reference, I’ll check it out.
I usually enjoy Gene Hackman flicks.
Enemy of the State, Crimson Tide, French Connection, Unforgiven, Hoosiers, etc.
“First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado.
Second prize is a set of steak knives.
Third prize is you’re fired.”
Love that movie.
He writes wonderfully and his enemies come up with “F*** Mamet.” That speaks volumes.
House of Games is great, too.
I didn't realize Mamet was heterodox and thus a target for cancellation.
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