Everywhere an Oink Oink
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Everywhere an Oink Oink

An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
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Everywhere an Oink Oink

An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

About this book

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 top—a 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 Mamet’s 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 Mamet’s 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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Prologue: Forty Years in a Harem
  6. 1. Speed-the-Plow
  7. 2. The Little Engine and the Factory Ship
  8. 3. Mother Earth
  9. 4. Out in the Styx
  10. 5. To Build a Fire
  11. 6. Leda & the Swan, or the Impossible Dream
  12. 7. Early Films
  13. 8. Hats and Shoes
  14. 9. Gossip
  15. 10. The Form Persists
  16. 11. Curious Survivals
  17. 12. The Frank Sinatra Story
  18. 13. High & Low
  19. 14. Villains and Sexual Abuse at the Golden Globes
  20. 15. Joe and Don
  21. 16. Colleagues and Swine
  22. 17. Just One Damn Thing After Another
  23. 18. A Dinosaur
  24. 19. Tools
  25. 20. Destroyed by Tobacco
  26. 21. The Trauma in the Boathouse
  27. 22. Lime Rock
  28. 23. Temper and Gags
  29. 24. Poodvecker
  30. 25. Gifts
  31. 26. How Max Factor Became Pregnant
  32. 27. Things Change
  33. 28. An Appreciation of the State of Play
  34. 29. The Cards
  35. 30. A Two-Sided Coin
  36. 31. The Centipeep
  37. 32. Singing in the Shower
  38. 33. Hoffa
  39. 34. Courage and Hypocrisy
  40. 35. History
  41. 36. The Flocky
  42. 37. Backwash
  43. 38. L’Envoi
  44. Acknowledgments
  45. About the Author
  46. Index
  47. Copyright