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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This author needs to glengarry his glenross in that house of games they call the Spanish prison.
LOL! Down by State and Main?
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.
And he better wear his redbelt.
The left is so tolerant……
Oh, have I got your attention now?
Joe Rogan interviewed Mamet on April 5, 2022. It is almost 3 hours. You can watch it free on Spotify.
Have you seen “ The Conversation”?
I have not, good?
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Courtesy of Augusto Pinochet.
So many “victims” these days. When will they get a life? Never.
So is “The Edge” with Sir Anthony Hopkins, Elle Macpherson and that knucklehead Alec Baldwin.
I have seen that one. I enjoyed it.
It seems I have a couple Mamet flicks and Gene Hackman flicks to check out.
He is brilliant.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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