#mamet

[notpototo]

Fox fox fox

[tuttle-did-it]

One of my absolute FAVOURITE character actors of all time, Michael McKean, did a career retrospective.

He talks about his start in theatre (including Hairspray) and radio (obligatory photo of him as Edna)

talks about the Mamet play he was doing at the time, Glengarry Glenn Ross

How he wrote himself into Laverne & Shirley (thanks to Penny Marshall)

talking about filming in tv in the 70s, working in front of an audience

working on shows like Friends, Saturday Night Live, X-Files, Better Call Saul, Dead Ringers, Yes Prime Minister

working with people like David L Lander, Bob Odenkirk, Tom Leopold, Rob Reiner, Bryan Cranston, Jefferson May, Laura Linney, Ed Begley jr

(minor mention on working as an insomniac and how it affected his mental health, aging within Hollywood)

meeting Christopher Guest at NYU, working with him multiple times, living with him and collaborating creatively, maintaining relationship over the years,

The roots of This is Spinal Tap, doing a demo for Spinal Tap

If you love This is Spinal Tap, don't forget to watch Rob Reiner's interview with Ted Danson. It is EXCELLENT.

Spinal Tap II, the End Continues

writing music with his wife Annette O'Toole (Potato's in the Paddy Wagon) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lf3mBfZ6N8)

mentioned getting hit by a car a couple of times (made him late for The Best Man, missed the rest of the run) and he was taken to the same hospital he was born in-- and was staying in what was formerly the maternity ward

Briefly discusses working on Pinter

he has a dog Barry and taunts the audiences to show him a cuter dog

'my dad used to say that every artist should be two artists: one to actually create the art, and the other to him him over the head when he's done.'

'you're never done. It's never perfect, and it can't be.'

[fernfoxx]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69023376

Hot Rod wormed his way out of the dingy corner with minimal scraping. Deadlock watched as the other bot brushed off not-so-imaginary dust, then stretched a servo out.

To him, Deadlock.

To help him.

Deadlock snorted. What an idiot.

OR

rodimus activates his outlier when he's flustered. cue, drift being very attractive and some misunderstandings!

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Recommended Reading

[mechaprimaverablog]

Lo único que sabemos del personaje es lo que dice la obra. El problema aquí es ¿qué significa "te quiero"? Puede significar "sé mío" o "sé mía"; también puede significar "déjame en paz". Lo que es peor: ocuparse tanto del propio sentimiento lo hace a uno tan aburrido en el escenario como fuera de él. Nadie se entusiasma ante el espectro de un individuo sintiendo algo.

David Mamet. Manifiesto, Ed. Seix Barral, Barcelona, 2011.

[shakespearenews]

David Mamet and the ‘Stupid F***ing Words’

Like the characters in his language-lacerating work, the Chicago-bred playwright often spoils for a fight, even when the topic isn’t his increasingly conservative politics.

“My plays are not an indictment of capitalism. One can easily say King Lear is an indictment of capitalism because, look, he’s the king, but he gave up a little bit of power and everybody else wanted to be the king, so they took away all of his servant men. Nobody hates capitalism. Even the people screaming about it are doing it for what they can get out of it, because that’s how human beings live. The alternative to capitalism is slavery, in which case you don’t have to worry about it. But the only problem with slavery is you’re a slave.”

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 “It’s an obscenity to have talkbacks, because what it does is it turns the play into an English class. And the actors should not be put in a position, nor the director nor the playwright, of defending their work. There’s a reason there’s a curtain in the theatre. The curtain comes down, and, as Shakespeare says, ‘You that way, we this way.’”

[maxwelltait]

Glengarry Glen Ross (Foley, 1992)

[allthingsckr]

Callum Keith Rennie in Men with guns as Mamet 1997 (Part 1)As promised for @spacenotebook