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  • Everywhere an Oink Oink

  • An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood
  • By: David Mamet
  • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
  • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (59 ratings)

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Everywhere an Oink Oink

By: David Mamet
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares his “smart, addictive, hilarious, and insightful” (Breitbart) 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 artists 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. Everywhere an Oink Oink is “nothing but wicked jokes, angry broadsides, and pointed gossip: in other words, the ideal Hollywood book” (The Wall Street Journal).

©2023 David Mamet (P)2023 Simon & Schuster Audio
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Old Man Yelling At Clouds

Some entertaining anecdotes. Good writer, mad that times have changed and are different than when he was younger.

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The humor and truth

It was very enjoyable. Kept me chuckling. I can highly recommend this to anyone who enjoys the movies.

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Loved it

Everything I love about the author in one place, can't wait to listen again

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A bitter witty literate view of 40 years in Hollywood

I greatly admire the ability, work, independent spirit, movies, plays and occasional Tv works by the brilliant but bitter Chicago native. His style in life and in this book has been described as cynical, street smart edge. He is in full rage and glorious style as he recalls the high and low points of his life in the movie biz. This book is not so much written in the usual sense as spit out. The writer and sometimes director of movies such as Glengary Glen Ross, Heist, the Untouchables, Hoffa, and my fav Wag The Dog holds nothing back . This is for baby boomers like me a fascinating whistle stop through Hollywood history with nothing barred and no sacred cows spared. There are witty angry graphs full of his bile and his unique view of show biz. For all of his machine gun like delivery, his salad of stars, his hate for the suits who made him angry and crazy a lot of it is delicious, Mamet is a true artist genius and the rest of us should be happy with what we get. I know I was.

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Lousy Reader

I can’t stand the reader! After seeing Mamet on Bill Maher’s show, I was anxious to listen to the book, but I could barely get through it because of the person reading it.

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Outstanding

Like sitting down and having a conversation with Mamet about film history, with lots of name dropping and gossip. The man is a legend and knows his stuff. Very funny and engaging.

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Behind the Scenes

It was an interesting, behind the scenes look at some of Hollywood's history, from silent films to current day.

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Blunt recounting of life as writer and director.

Lots of fun gossip but also a thoughtful journey through creativity and it’s obstacles. Exceptionally well written. Enjoy

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Mamet's Miscellany

A self-aggrandizing tour over a decades long career with interludes of trivia and bland insights on the Hollywood of today and yesteryear.

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Intelligentsia

Has finally established a footing in the entertainment industry—decades after landing a man on the moon. Listening to intelligent and aware people is good for your soul. A speck of order in the massive chaos known as "the entertainment industry" is grounding. Thank You. A highly beneficial read.

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