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p>Some conservatives reacted to Mamet's essay with a Manifest Destiny attitude -- providence long ago deemed he would be ours; it was just a matter of time. True, the former Chicago cabbie's rough-hewn, workman attitude toward the craft of writing ("You know...you need to build a garage but you can't afford a bricklayer," he once told the New Yorker 's John Lahr. "Well, hell, figure out how to lay bricks. You need a script, well, hell, figure out how to write one"), his crew cut ("the haircut of an honest, two-pair-of-jeans working man, a man from Chicago, a man without vanity whose being stands without need of either introduction or apology," he wrote in a 1992 New York Times essay), combined with a pronounced distaste for pretension -- all this suggested something more substantial than fey liberalism. Consider, as further evidence, the following exchange from his one-act play Bobby Gould in Hell : br> /p>Bobby: "Nothing's black and white."br> No moral relativism here. Mamet may have attended Goddard College in the 1960s -- a "hippie, radical, drug-infested school for f--k-ups like myself," he once told the Guardian , preparing students for "no society more exclusive than the criminally bohemian" -- ushering in a lifelong love affair with flinty rural Vermont, where the writer still maintains a home, but he never romanticized the era. Asked by New Theater Quarterly in 1988 whether he felt the performance art of the 1960s served an artistic end, Mamet sniped, "It had a purpose in the way a guy goes into McDonald's, pulls a gun, and kills a bunch of people. Obviously, there is some meaning. But it's not very constructive." In his bookThe Devil: "Nothing's black and white? What about a panda? What about a panda, you dumb f--k!"
louis vuitton| 4.27.10 @ 4:56AM
writer McCain (relative?) uses hundreds of words to end with the line..."But wouldn't it be fun?" He wants us to have fun this November while we pull the lever voting.r canada goosethe ills of the major cities in the lammunity have been poorly served by decades of black leadership. They continue to reelect the very people whose policies keep them in poverty. No debate presence is going to change that. The MSM.
Lily88| 12.30.10 @ 10:23PM
Thank you for this post, very interesting!
vouchercodes| 1.6.11 @ 7:29AM
Everything in America can be political.