Everywhere An Oink Oink (Unabridged)
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-loud 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 artist 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.
Customer Reviews
Stream of Consciousness
The playback of this awkwardly-read audiobook lasts around 5 hours, and the listener gets the impression that’s how long it took the author to write it. It is, at times, entertaining, with gossipy tales of some big names from the 60’s-80’s. But it falls down as a disconnected stream-of-consciousness, without structure, theme or continuity of any kind. Its takedown of Hollywood egos (the strongest vitriol is reserved for producers) is kneecapped by the author’s unironic airing of his own oversized ego, page after page. This is a man who is better than you, better than the gangster at the other table, better than Denzel Washington and his agent, better than the Oscars committee. If you can laugh along with this lack of self-awareness, you might enjoy the book, as it’s an easy listen, and you won’t miss the plot (there is none), if you get distracted for a few minutes, or a half hour, during the read back.
Hard to listen to
I bought this book because it was well reviewed online. However, I found the audiobook to be difficult to listen to the narrator speaks a very choppy manner. The wording is complex and hard to follow.