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I almost titled this post “Glengarry Glenn Beck”, but just didn’t have the heart.  And it’s really the opposite of the point.

I adore the movie adaptation of Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross.  I’m afraid it’s the only Mamet that I am familiar with, although I retain a quite favorable impressionof him  from an interview by Dennis Prager.   That interview is not available online, at least through a cursory search, but I recall that Mamet was still, as the Weekly Standard refers to him in the last decade, in “mid-conversion”.  That’s a great time to talk to people, by the way, as they are charged with new ideas, and in no small degree of inner turmoil, which makes for great conversation.

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