DID YOU KNOW THAT OUR MOST SUCCESSFUL PLAYWRIGHT IS A CONSERVATIVE?

July 31st, 2010 admin

Yep. In an industry dominated by cocktail-party progressives, David Mamet (author of my favorite contemporary play), is an outspoken conservative and advocate of the free market: [Mamet] caused widespread consternation two years ago when he published an essay in the Village Voice called ‘Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal’ in which he announced that


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