[ * ] David Mamet

The Tablet ^ | 30 Nov 2022 | Clayton Fox

[Rummyfan]

I highly recommend his latest book Recessional.

[Steely Tom]

No deviation is permitted.

[Rummyfan]

Since Mamet’s 2008 essay in The Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal,” he has been subject to a towering wave of enmity from the community to which he has devoted his life.

[Chainmail]

I’m buying that book now..

[EEGator]

Glengarry Glen Ross and The Untouchables are both outstanding.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I read his essay and it was something else.

[Boogieman]

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.

[Ge0ffrey]

The neo-Marxists have to be purged.

[Boogieman]

“Heist” from 2001 was pretty good too. Not top shelf like the 2 you mentioned, but entertaining and a great cast.

[Rummyfan]

On the future of the faithful in America:

“I was in a gun shop a couple of months ago and I was talking to a guy, he was a Jewish guy, he worked at the gun shop and he said ‘Oh yeah a lot of Jews are coming in from the temples to buy guns’—and I said ‘Oh, the Rabbis are coming in to buy guns?’ And he said ‘No, the cantors.’ So I thought that was pretty f**kin funny.”

[Rurudyne]

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.

[Rummyfan]

On whether the Jews should decamp to the Republican party:

“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.”

[Williams]

My tagline.

If only we had a political party that would call out these insane evil fascistic communists.

[EEGator]

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.

[Fungi]

The Tablet is still respectable after a piece with that title? Think again.

[irishjuggler]

“First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado.
Second prize is a set of steak knives.
Third prize is you’re fired.”

Love that movie.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

He writes wonderfully and his enemies come up with “F*** Mamet.” That speaks volumes.

[FreedomForce]

House of Games is great, too.

[Drew68]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

I didn't realize Mamet was heterodox and thus a target for cancellation.

[Rummyfan]

And Things Change is another good one.