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GQ's Evan McGarvey on David Mamet's crash-turn:

Writers who make it as big as Mamet often bend to the right. If you believe that your talent and work ethic are the only reasons you have a nice spot near the Pacific Ocean, everyone else who doesn't have that is a failure. If your work falls out of favor or you notice the culture moving on, it's not you, it's the pictures (made by dumb feckless liberal executives) that got small. History is filled with artists who end up mesmerized by raw strength. If this disqualifies Mamet for you, then I recommend that you avoid the fascist sympathizing geniuses of Modernism who wrote some of the best poems in English. Old-rich-guy cringe and occasionally gross as the worst of Mamet's commentary can be, his infelicities are small potatoes next to what even greater writers have said.