Posted by
JP on Monday, April 07, 2008 9:58:17 AM
new @ ExileStreet
by Burt
Prelutsky [scriptwriter] 4/7/08
Recently,
at least if you’re a conservative, writer-director David Mamet has
taken on heroic proportions. And it has nothing whatever to do with
his rather second-rate, obscenity-laced plays and movies, everything
to do with a piece he wrote for the Village Voice. In it, he announced
that, at the age of 60, he has decided to stop being a liberal. It’s
always a cause for celebration whenever anyone leaves the darkside, and
I suppose if I had ever liked anything he’d written besides the script
for “The Untouchables,” I’d be somewhat more excited by his conversion.
The
truth is, within 24 hours, half a dozen friends had forwarded me the
piece. What I found odd was that they were so thrilled at the news
that not one of them even took exception to the paragraph in which
Mamet compared a president, George W. Bush, he had always considered a
monster with a president, John F. Kennedy, whom he had always revered.
I guess he was striving for irony in listing similar things each had
done. But how was it he could write, “Bush outed a CIA agent; Kennedy
left hundreds of them to die in the surf at the Bay of Pigs” and have
nobody raise an objection? [more]