David Mamet Turns Right
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 11th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
David Mamet Turns Right
Suzanne Fields, Washington Times
Conservatives have a new celebrity spokesman-writer-thinker-philosopher. David Mamet, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, movie director and sometime essayist, has come out of the closet. No longer, he declares, is he a “brain-dead liberal.” Now he's a wide-awake conservative. Some time after arriving in Hollywood, of all places, and at age 60, he engaged in a conversation with his Republican rabbi (where did he find one?), who gave him the books of conservative writers, such as Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, Milton Friedman and Paul Johnson.He had a dramatic…
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Lloyd Grove, Daily Beast
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Thom Shanker, New York Times
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