Good news! I got the David Mamet book on Anti-Semitism to review!
Bad news! I have three days to read it and write the review.
That’s okay, though, cause I’m kinda psyched. David Mamet “On Anti-Semitism, Self Hatred and the Jews”? Get ready for some vitriol.
School with David Mamet
When one student asked Mamet who his favorite actresses were, he exploded: “Women who act are not actresses. They’re actors. Why do they need to fucking qualify what their genitalia are? Folks, seriously, I need to disabuse you of the notion that ‘actress’ is anything other than a euphemism for ‘floozy’ . . . Do women fucking writers call themselves ‘writressess?’ No!”
Balbirer – who appeared on “Seinfeld” and wrote and performed the solo show, “I Slept With Jack Kerouac” – says Mamet advised her, “There’s nothing worse than being a woman in show business . . . you’ll be asked to do only two things in every fucking role you ever play: take your shirt off and cry.”
He also told his class he considered critics “the syphilis and gonorrhea of the theater,” and delivered a lecture, “the premise of which was that Bill Cosby was a whore . . . television was evil and for whores, Hollywood was a hotbed of whoredom, and we were to avoid all of these things like the plague, unless, of course, we, too, were whores and not the artists we said we were.”
Originally printed in the New York Post, sans the expletives. I added them back in. You’re welcome.
