Posted on 06/08/2011 11:30:07 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
At the risk of biting the hand that feeds him, acclaimed playwright David Mamet has written a new book likely to enflame the liberal audience that has embraced him since his rise to fame with 1984's "Glengarry Glen Ross."
On the cover of "The Secret Knowledge On the Dismantling of American Culture," Mamet proclaims: "The struggle of the Left to rationalize its positions is an intolerable Sisyphean burden. I speak as a reformed Liberal."
Mamet, 63, who grew up the son of liberal Jewish immigrants in Chicago, came to his conversion late in life -- he says he spoke to his first conservatives at age 60 -- and got his schooling from folks like Shelby Steele and Glenn Beck.
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Saw movie G. G. Ross, saw Al Pacino in American Buffalo play (had to review for college
A_lways B_e C_losing
via imdb.com:
>>As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? You got leads.
I picked up this book the other day as soon as I read the introduction. I, too, am a “recovering liberal,” and applaud Mamet for having the guts to write this book knowing that liberals will vilify him to “going to the other side.”
Maybe he will make a new play called GlennBecky Glenn Beck... LOL..
Who the &*$! wants to know?
The correct term is “apostate”.
There is nothing hated more by liberals....than former liberals...
Yes. A very good movie. A bit stagey. Superlative acting.
LOL—good one!
You win the &*$!ing Cadillac!
“The coffee is for CLOSERS!”
But if you have a chance to see House of Games (cowriter) do it.
Blake: A-I-D-A. Get out there - you got the prospects coming in. You think they came in to get out of the rain? A guy don’t walk on the lot unless he wants to buy. They’re sitting out there waiting to give you their money. Are you gonna take it? Are you man enough to take it?
Love it.
I have tried to contact David Mamet since he wrote, “The Wicked Son” - to no avail. He was represented by the Phillip Morris Agency at one point but no longer. Anybody have a clue?
Thank you all.
I have tried to contact David Mamet since he wrote, “The Wicked Son” - to no avail. He was represented by the Phillip Morris Agency at one point but no longer. Anybody have a clue?
Thank you all.
I saw about 30 minutes of the film and bailed. The characters didn't do anything for me and all I heard were curse words for 30 minutes.
The role that put Alex Baldwin on the map. Amazingly dark movie that shows how competition brings out the worst in human nature — and to think this guy is now a conservative! That movie and Wall Street shows the liberal position on capitalism and capitalism’s supposed belief in the virtue of greed.
I love GLengarry/Glenross from a dramatic perspective. The dialog is great.
But it’s very clear from watching it that Mamet didn’t know the first thing about how a sales office operates.
No sales office is going to send sales reps out with leads that have been proven to be unqualified. So the scene with Jack Lemmon learning that his “big deal” won’t go through because the buyers were known deadbeats in the past just doesn’t fly.
I love GLengarry/Glenross from a dramatic perspective. The dialog is great.
But it’s very clear from watching it that Mamet didn’t know the first thing about how a sales office operates.
No sales office is going to send sales reps out with leads that have been proven to be unqualified. So the scene with Jack Lemmon learning that his “big deal” won’t go through because the buyers were known deadbeats in the past just doesn’t fly.
bump
‘Knots Landing’ put Alex Baldwin on the map. Or for feature films, ‘She’s Having a Baby’ or BeetleJuice. Or ‘The Hunt For Red October’.
Mamet worked in a real estate office in the 1970s. In the play, the owners of the office were trying to squeeze juice from an onion by using garbage leads. They may have been trying to drive the salesmen out.
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