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[ * ] David Mamet
The Tablet ^ | 30 Nov 2022 | Clayton Fox

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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To: Rummyfan

This author needs to glengarry his glenross in that house of games they call the Spanish prison.


21 posted on 11/30/2022 4:27:06 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

LOL! Down by State and Main?


22 posted on 11/30/2022 4:27:50 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: Rurudyne

Transgenderism is one of those things that appear be more about the believer’s vanity than anything else. It lets them display how ‘flexible’ their mind is and show how they are not bound by silly ‘constructs.’ There may also be an element of 1984 as well as creating a touchstone to show ‘in’ membership.

It is even self contradictory. If a ‘trans man’ is truly a man and a ‘trans woman’ is truly a woman then there shouldn’t be a ‘trans’ except for the brief instance of choosing an alternate gender declaration.


23 posted on 11/30/2022 4:28:54 PM PST by posterchild
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To: Rummyfan

And he better wear his redbelt.


24 posted on 11/30/2022 4:29:33 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Rummyfan

The left is so tolerant……


25 posted on 11/30/2022 4:30:00 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: irishjuggler

Oh, have I got your attention now?


26 posted on 11/30/2022 4:30:18 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Rummyfan

Joe Rogan interviewed Mamet on April 5, 2022. It is almost 3 hours. You can watch it free on Spotify.


27 posted on 11/30/2022 4:30:57 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: EEGator

Have you seen “ The Conversation”?


28 posted on 11/30/2022 4:33:03 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: gundog

I have not, good?


29 posted on 11/30/2022 4:34:03 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Ge0ffrey

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Courtesy of Augusto Pinochet.


30 posted on 11/30/2022 4:35:00 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Rummyfan

So many “victims” these days. When will they get a life? Never.


31 posted on 11/30/2022 4:35:36 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: EEGator

So is “The Edge” with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Elle Macpherson and that knucklehead Alec Baldwin.


32 posted on 11/30/2022 4:36:03 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Rurudyne
The vile and depraved The vile and depraved hate nature and "Nature's God". The highest expression in nature of Nature's God is Man himself, created in the image and likeness of God. Therefore, the vile and depraved hate Human Nature; they do everything in their power to diminish, denigrate, deface, despoil, violate, and pervert Human Nature. This drives their demonic lust for abortion, sodomy, and sexual mutilation. It also drives their anti-human ecofreakery.
33 posted on 11/30/2022 4:36:28 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: No name given

I have seen that one. I enjoyed it.

It seems I have a couple Mamet flicks and Gene Hackman flicks to check out.


34 posted on 11/30/2022 4:37:24 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Rummyfan

He is brilliant.


35 posted on 11/30/2022 4:37:29 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

Many attacks against Jewish personalities are instigated by the so-called mainstream media, especially the vile Washington Post and the racist NYT.

The propaganda media operate behind deep state-approved front organizations like BLM, antifa and BDS, giving these Jew-hating Nazis credibility.


36 posted on 11/30/2022 4:39:00 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Fungi

👍


37 posted on 11/30/2022 4:39:57 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

Every time I watch an interview with Mamet, I wish I could talk with him in person. Very relatable man at this stage of his life.


38 posted on 11/30/2022 4:40:05 PM PST by avenir (Information overload = Pattern recognition)
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To: EEGator

It’s great. One of John Cazale’s three movies. If you like “Enemy of the State,” Hackman’s character in “ The Conversation” will be eye-opening.


39 posted on 11/30/2022 4:42:33 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: No name given ; EEGator
So is “The Edge” with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Elle Macpherson and that knucklehead Alec Baldwin.

Forgot about that one, he wrote it but didn't direct it.

Particularly liked how he had the billionaire be the one who kept his head and led Baldiwn's helpless character out of the wilderness.

40 posted on 11/30/2022 4:47:05 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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