News about David Mamet

Screenwriter David Mamet has a bone to pick with efforts to increase diversity in film and television.  At the LA Times Festival of Books, Mamet, 76, described the push for DEI - diversity, equity, and inclusion - in Hollywood as 'garbage' and 'fascist totalitarianism.' 'It's the same thing with DEI, it's fascist totalitarianism. Leave me the f**k alone, that's what I say,' he said on Sunday. 

Two-time Oscar nominee David Mamet recently got candid about his family and famous children saying that they worked for their fame, denying their family name provided an advantage. The Verdict screenwriter says his two actress daughters 'earned it by merit' while at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. 'Nobody ever gave my kids a job because of who they were related to,' the Tony-nominee added.

Hollywood's 'diversity' drive is supposed to offer greater opportunities for ethnic minorities and women, but Joi Harris, a black motorcycle racer, died after it cost her her her life. A stunt rider was required to stand in for African-American actress Zazie Beetz in a scene that involved hurling through Vancouver's streets without a helmet during the filming of 2018's superhero film Deadpool 2. The producers could have used a black man or a white woman sporting make-up, but they did not want to fall foul of tight Tinseltown union diversity laws that mandated that they could only use a black woman.

In the forthcoming thriller film Assassination, Courtney Love is expected to return to the big screen after a nearly five-year absence from films. According to Deadline, the 58-year-old performer will appear alongside John Travolta, Al Pacino, Viggo Mortensen, and Shia LaBeouf in the project, which will be seen during the forthcoming Cannes Film Festival. The frontwoman of Hole, who recently commemorated Kurt Cobain's death, will collaborate with director David Mamet and co-scriptwriter Nicholas Celozzi.

For two decades Judith Keppel, a distant cousin of the Queen Consort, has been the nation's Queen of Quizzes, first as the inaugural winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Then as one of the original Eggheads, and then as one of the original Eggheads. Judith answers 60 of her most favorite fiendishly-hard Eggheads questions here. Can you crack them?