Mamet Moves

[amos]

Original source, Arts & Letters Daily. Story published in Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard, the principal neoconservative publication. Subject: One of our best playwrights and screenwriters, and his shift to the right. Point: It is worth paying attention to such shifts among the literary class (a la Orwell's disillusionment with the left expressed in Homage to Catalonia, Camus's split with Sartre, Christopher Hitchens's move from Trotskyism to neoconservatism) if only because it would probably be best for all if the intellectuals at least communicated across the divide. Mamet's shift deserves attention and Arts and Letters Daily is the best venue to find well-expressed competing views.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ ... ?nopager=1

[rednblacklumberjack]

Anyone ever seen Red Belt? Its on Netflix Instant Browse last time I checked. I loved it and am generally only experiencing films on a de-intellectualized limbic level. Great story and it centers on the preserve of humanity manifest in a character devoted to martial arts, so reminiscent of our Sifu DoU.

[Ibrahim]

Mamet has fallen off, and his political shift is inconvenient because when somebody says that it sounds like they have a political axe to grind.

Actually, I did enjoy Spartan, but I thought it was supposed to be satirical! I think his last really good film was The Spanish Prisoner.

[amos]

[rickranger]

another GREAT book! lol



seriously, modern liberals get such a spanking in this book that it should be perforated for great impact.

[rickranger]