Posted on 10/05/08
The master of warring words goes to fight school
You hear this a lot about playwright and screenwriter David Mamet: He's kind of a pain - demanding, egomaniacal, pernickety about his dialogue being performed exactly as written. Though his voice is distinctive and vivid - productions such as Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo or Wag the Dog are unmistakably his, no matter which actors star in them - he's also accused of sacrificing substance for style. In March, he published an essay in The Village Voice entitled "Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," a nervy rumination on American politics that whipped up considerable indignation on the Internet for a few weeks.
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