PDF Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

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Everywhere an Oink Oink An Embittered, Dyspeptic,
and
Accurate
Report
of
Forty
Years
in
Hollywood
Description
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and
director David shares his 8220smrt, addictive,
hilarious, and
Mamet
insightful8221(Breitbart) tales from his four
decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of
the biggest names in movies.David
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Mamet went to Hollywood on top8212asuper
successful playwright summoned west in 1980 to
write a vehicle for Jack Nicholson. He arrived
just in time to meet the luminaries of old
Hollywood and revel in the friendship of giants
like Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Bob Evans, and
Sue Mengers. Over the next forty years, Mamet
wrote dozens of scripts, was fired off dozens of
movies, and directed eleven himself. In
Everywhere an Oink Oink, he revels of the taut
and gag-filled professionalism of the film set.
He depicts the ever-fickle studios and producers
who piece by piece eat the artists alive. And he
ponders the art of filmmaking and the genius of
those who made our finest movies. With the
bravado and flair of Mamet8217sbest theatrical
work, this memoir describes a world gone by, some
of our most beloved film stars with their
hair down, and how it all got washed away by
digital media and the woke brigade. The book is
illustrated throughout with three-dozen of
Mamet8217spungent cartoons and caricatures.
Everywhere an Oink Oink is 8220nohing but
wicked jokes, angry broadsides, and pointed
gossip in other words, the ideal
Hollywood book8221(The Wall Street Journal).