THE MASTER is currently at 2 1/2 stars on Amazon. Reviews don't mean shit.

If Bagger Vance is Merlin and Morgan Freeman's characters are Gandalf, then would that make The Butler a Dumbledore on the Magical Negro Scale?

Also, she gets AIDS.

She means the police officers she's studying for her new role in UNDER ARREST, the story of a hardened police officer whose hard exterior starts to crack when she meets a hunky new recruit played by Gerard Butler.

"I'm being arrested? Do you know who I am?"
"Yeah, you're that bitch who followed up your Oscar win with such gems as FOUR CHRISTMASES, JUST LIKE HEAVEN, HOW DO YOU KNOW and THIS MEANS WAR. Now get in the damn car."

And the fact that one of the few gay characters he's had in his plays is described as "a young fellow, clad, perhaps, but in a leopard-skin
posing strap"…well, I'll just leave that there.

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Yeah, for a guy like David Mamet who keeps harping that "gays are people too" is a lazy topic for drama, he sure likes to fixate on the gays a lot. And not to appear prejudiced, but since he's also a Republican, I keep thinking he'll eventually write an anti-gay screed and officially kill his career in the theater…

I think you're forgetting about Sir Lloyd Wilson Webber's RAP: THE MUSICAL!

I agree with you there, although I actually really like NOVEMBER and KEEP YOUR PANTHEON, namely because they're two of Mamet's recent plays that aren't Socratic dialogues made for the Fox News set dressed up to look like engaging drama.

Never saw the VIRGINIA WOOLF revival, since I'm dirt poor and live a great deal away from New York, but any triumphs for a non-musical play that isn't based off of a movie and stars zero movie stars on Broadway are great triumphs indeed.

But then again, when you write a show as mind-meltingly boring as THE ANARCHIST (if critics are to be believed), a lack of Tony recognition shouldn't be a shock.

So I presume David Mamet and Shia LaBeouf are sucking each other off in mourning?

Agreed, agreed and agreed. I sincerely hope John Roberts becomes a breakout star sometime in the foreseeable future.

And the fact that they can get a respected Academy Award winner like Kevin Kline in on a regular basis to bless the show with some Fischoeder magic whenever possible is truly wonderful.

David Mamet, you cheeky monkey, is that you?

Oh, come on! After we made THE BLIND SIDE, I thought racism was cured for good. Well, thanks, Brad Paisley, for reopening the wound.

Would you say that about Tom Petty?

Is that the film where he was SCARING THE LITTLE GIRL?!?

As much as pity the poor sod who had to do the walk of shame after getting chewed out by Richard Griffiths, that is pretty fucking badass. Cell phones are a festering boil on the backside of live theater.