http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t Please enjoy this in-the-trenches report from someone who suffered through Mamet reading his verse adaptation of Faust at the 92nd Street Y: Mamet commented mildly as literally half of a very full auditorium made for the exits. He was bombing, and he did seem to enjoy it, as if he was involved in seeing what would happen if he persisted. If his play-in-verse lacked drama, at least he could enjoy the drama of human nature. When all the brave ones had left, the Kauffman audience looked like a tooth had been extracted... Between this and the rambling, I-just-rediscovered-civics-and-now-I'm-a-conservative essay he... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:20:34 -0800 Tue, 06 May 2008 15:35:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I'd blow him.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1015782 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1015782 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 11:30:45 -0800 This is nothing new. In the seventies he couldn't shut up about Vietnam.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1015820 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1015820 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 11:41:55 -0800 Why is it that when someone leaves your ranks you lefties have to savage them? He changed his mind about liberalism, get over it.

]]> CA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016029 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016029 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 12:44:57 -0800 Have you read the essay, CA? I'm all for defectors to conservatism, but the essay has the slippery, rambling feel of a man losing his grip.

]]> Brendan Kiley http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016144 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016144 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 13:33:39 -0800 Yep, I read it. David Horowitz linked to it when it came out. And yes it is rambling.

]]> CA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016156 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016156 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 13:40:36 -0800 I don't see "crazy," I see some kind of sadness, like the look of somebody who knows it's all over but just can't quite say goodbye yet.

]]> Wolf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016425 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/news_flash_david_mamet_wontor_cantshut_t#c1016425 Theater Tue, 06 May 2008 15:35:53 -0800