What is a "talk-back"?

I do think Mamet overreacted and was a dick, but in a play where gender relations and power-imbalanced (hetero)sexual relationships are key themes, it makes sense to keep the casting the way it was written with regard to the genders of the key characters. It would be like casting a white guy as Othello, which of course has been done many times before without anyone getting peeved.

Spoiler Alert on "Fury": the Allies win, thanks to Captain America and a young Nick Fury. Starring Nicholas Cage as Red Skull and Christopher Walker as "The President"

Furry looks interesting ...

Mockingjay, Page 1.

Mamet is a dick and he didn't even give an interview to Playboy?

based on all the hype, i watched the hunger games. guess what? it was fucking preposterous.

give me tank battles any day.

It's not just Mamet. Edward Albee did the same thing. Playwrights are notoriously protective of their art.

They hit up Microsoft and Google for a billion every now and then.

It's the cost of doing business there.

And from Bukowski:

“The best thing about your writing is that it excites the Institutionalized. Also those that should be excited. And that figure goes into the many millions. If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.”

https://kindle.amazon.com/work/hollywood…

WTF people? Little Free Libraries are great! We have them damn near every block here in Minneapolis. At least in my neighborhood. Who could be against them? Aside from possibly the Big Free Library or book sellers but I haven't heard any complaints from them here.

Also, Mockingjay Part 1????? Fuck you film industry! What's with these assholes turning single books into movie series? This is already a trilogy! Is 3 movies not enough for you? Harry Potter was already 6 or 7 books and they had to split the last one up? The Hobbit is now 3 fucking movies? They already had their trilogy in the Lord of the Rings! They didn't need to make Hobbit into a trilogy. Fucking money grubbing fucks!

Got a feeling that Into the Woods is going to be shit precisely because it has Chris Pine and Emily Blunt? Can these people sing at a professional level? Or is this just Johnny Depp and Russell Crowe all over? I mean, it's fucking Sondheim and fucking Into the Woods. Cast a bunch of Broadway musical "unknowns" instead. Joanna Gleason would probably be better as the Baker's wife even though she's probably at least in her 60s now.

News: David Mamet is a dick.
News: Sun rises in the east.