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

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Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful (Breitbart) tales from his four decades in Hollywood where he worked with some of the biggest names in movies.

David Mamet went to Hollywood on topa super 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 Mamets best 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 Mamets pungent cartoons and caricatures. Everywhere an Oink Oink is nothing but wicked jokes, angry broadsides, and pointed gossip: in other words, the ideal Hollywood book (The Wall Street Journal).

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Everywhere an Oink Oink is nothing but wicked jokes, angry broadsides and pointed gossip: in other words, the ideal Hollywood book.

Kyle Smith, The Wall Street Journal
A smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful look at everything from craven producers to the art of storytelling to the demise of storytelling to life.

John Nolte, Breitbart

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David Mamets numerous plays includeOleanna,Glengarry Glen Ross(winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award),American Buffalo,Speed-the-Plow,BostonMarriage,November,Race, andThe Anarchist. He wrote the screenplays for such films asTheVerdict,The Untouchables,Ronin, andWag the Dog, and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. He has written and directed ten films, includingHomicide,The Spanish Prisoner,State and Main,House of Games,Spartan, andRedbelt. In addition, he wrote the novelsThe Village,The Old Religion,Wilson,The Diary of a Porn Star,Chicago, and many books of nonfiction, includingBambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business;Theatre;Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama; and twoNew York TimesbestsellersThe Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American CultureandRecessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch. His HBO filmPhil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He was cocreator and executive producer of the CBS television showThe Unitand is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.