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Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his "smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful" (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.
David Mamet went to Hollywood on top-a super successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to write a…
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Best known for his work in the theater and movies, David Mamet is also a fabulous essayist. Whether the subject is religion (The Wicked Son), politics (Recessional), or his current Hollywood tell-all, Everywhere an Oink Oink, the writing's always taut and the ideas incisive—with a sensibility that ranges from subtle cynicism to wildly funny. In Everywhere an Oink Oink, Mamet seems omniscient: he knows everybody, has seen every film and can tell you all the inside gossip. The chapters are short, standalone essays, illustrated with his own cartoons. Whether you love Hollywood or hate it, this book is worth…
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