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David Mamet Calls Hollywood’s DEI Initiatives “Garbage” & Says His Kids Are Not Nepo Babies: “They Earned It By Merit”
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| April 22, 2024
| By Armando Tinoco
Posted on 04/26/2024 5:20:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway; All
Mamet’s latest book is a Hollywood memoir and it is touching and hilarious and deep at the same time. I recommend it highly:l
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posted on
04/26/2024 5:59:50 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
To: Rummyfan
Second prize is a set of steak knives.
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posted on
04/26/2024 6:14:52 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
04/26/2024 6:50:14 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: Drew68
I think you’d have to be more hands on than an observer to be good at building cabinets or running the business.
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posted on
04/26/2024 6:53:15 PM PDT
by
heartwood
(Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
To: nickcarraway
“Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to.” No comment.
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posted on
04/26/2024 6:53:26 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
To: Noumenon
... and third prize is... you’re fired.
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:40:41 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/26/2024 7:43:50 PM PDT
by
x
To: No name given
All of this is marxism plain and simple
To: Drew68
I think nepotism gets a bad rap... If your father was a cabinet maker... you'd probably be pretty well equipped to get into the cabinet making business yourself. Western civilization was founded on nepotism. Actually, during medieval times it was more of a caste system that people were born into.
- If you were the town carpenter, your son would become the town carpenter.
- If you were the town smith, your son would become a the town smith.
- If you were the town baker, your son would become the town baker.
- If you were the town cooper, your son would become the town cooper.
- If you were the town cook, butcher, fletcher, hunter, fisher, gardener...
Towns were small and isolated, and often only needed one of each trade to sustain the village. To keep the balance of trade in a village, the occupations were handed down from father to son; the son of the smith became the next smith, and so on and on.
That's why a lot of English surnames come from trades. It wasn't nepotism back then, it was survival. As the population grew, a second son would learn the father's trade and then move to a neighboring village that needed a smith, for example.
Today, nepotism isn't just about a child being handed a job due to privilege; nepotism gets its bad rap from the child being unqualified for the job he was given. For example, the daughter of an armorer becomes an armorer.
-PJ
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posted on
04/27/2024 2:36:36 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
04/27/2024 2:51:59 AM PDT
by
linMcHlp
To: Political Junkie Too
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posted on
04/27/2024 2:54:29 AM PDT
by
linMcHlp
To: Rummyfan
Yes I’ve heard gays blame the Pope for the AIDs deaths. Amazing.
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posted on
04/27/2024 4:05:50 AM PDT
by
TalBlack
(I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
To: nickcarraway
Regarding nepotism in Hollywood, Mamet doesn’t think his kids have benefitted from his accomplishments in the industry and rather says they learned from being on set, earning them a spot. He can believe that if he wants, but they wouldn't have even been on set if not for their last name.
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posted on
04/27/2024 5:33:45 AM PDT
by
KevinB
(Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
To: Rummyfan
But truthfully and sadly, Streisand’s son died of AIDS. If you're referring to her son Jason, he seems to still be very much alive.
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posted on
04/27/2024 5:37:55 AM PDT
by
KevinB
(Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
To: Rummyfan
I love this:
“In 2008 Mamet wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal”
“Hugely controversial”... LOL! I can just see them with their hands over their mouth fainting. An op-ed shocks them to their core but not a bunch of Nazis taking over college campuses or their President financing terror via Iran.
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posted on
04/27/2024 8:18:40 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: vespa300
What I never understood about that movie is they were expected to be closing on dead leads, such as Jack Lemmon pathetically showing up at that guys house at night in the rain and trying to get him to buy. How are you suppose to get them to buy? By putting a gun to their head? It’s impossible. “Always be closing” HOW?? For him to be closing he would literally have to threaten them
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posted on
04/27/2024 8:23:18 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The TV series The Unit was written and/or produced by Mamet. It was excellent! Word has it that someone in Obummer’s admin didn’t like it and had it cancelled.
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posted on
04/27/2024 9:59:34 AM PDT
by
ELS
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
I don’t know if you have ever worked in sales, including cold calling, lead generation, etc. but basically, they don’t want excuses. It’s just as the movie said....you have the leads, sell. Get them to sign on the dotted line.
I used to door to door setting up leads for air conditioning salesmen and if I didn’t get the minimum, they didn’t want any excuses. I think Gordon Gekko talked about it in Wall St. Something about no different than selling apples on the corner.
It’s a brutal business. That’s the point Alex Baldwin is making. don’t care if you are nice guy....good father, go home and play with your kids. It takes brass balls to sell real estate......great movie. classic,
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posted on
04/27/2024 1:14:10 PM PDT
by
vespa300
To: nickcarraway
The best thing that can be done is to start a different award.
Ignore the Oscar’s and work with the new award people. Make it up as you go along.
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