Playwright David Mamet defended private gun ownership this week, stating in an article published in Newsweek that he ardently supports citizens' rights to keep and bear arms.
"The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution," Mamet writes.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author went on to contest President Obama's position on gun control, calling the "so-called" assault weapons ban a "hoax" and a "political appeal to the ignorant."
Today, Michael Tomasky takes on Mamet's "bizarre rant" in The Daily Beast. The columnist writes, "Almost every 'fact' is wrung through an ideological thresher and pulverized," and laments near the end that Mamet is "another rich white man yelping about his taxes..." (Newsweek; The Daily Beast's response)
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Linda Lighton's "Taking Aim" series confronts the gun control debate...
"The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution," Mamet writes.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author went on to contest President Obama's position on gun control, calling the "so-called" assault weapons ban a "hoax" and a "political appeal to the ignorant."
Today, Michael Tomasky takes on Mamet's "bizarre rant" in The Daily Beast. The columnist writes, "Almost every 'fact' is wrung through an ideological thresher and pulverized," and laments near the end that Mamet is "another rich white man yelping about his taxes..." (Newsweek; The Daily Beast's response)
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Linda Lighton's "Taking Aim" series confronts the gun control debate...
- 1/28/2013
- by Katherine Brooks
- Huffington Post
School's out, so let our guest experts help you make the most of the British summer. Here's what to watch, what to listen to, what to read, how to picnic to perfection, and how to find the best beaches
How to spot a good beach by Hugh Graham
The editor of Time Out's Seaside Guide suggests 10 ways to know you've found the perfect beach:
1) Crashing waves
The appropriately named Hell's Mouth in north Wales puts on quite a show, as do Freshwater West (Pembrokeshire) and Sennen Cove (Cornwall).
2) Great views
The views above Rhossili Bay, a sublime Welsh strand on the Gower, rival the world's great coastal vistas.
3) Caribbean feel
In the sunshine, the turquoise seas and talcum-powder sand at Luskentyre, on the Hebridean island of Harris, are almost Bahamian.
4) Crag action
I love a bit of cragginess. Bedruthan Steps in north Cornwall takes rugged good looks to extremes.
5) Sand...
How to spot a good beach by Hugh Graham
The editor of Time Out's Seaside Guide suggests 10 ways to know you've found the perfect beach:
1) Crashing waves
The appropriately named Hell's Mouth in north Wales puts on quite a show, as do Freshwater West (Pembrokeshire) and Sennen Cove (Cornwall).
2) Great views
The views above Rhossili Bay, a sublime Welsh strand on the Gower, rival the world's great coastal vistas.
3) Caribbean feel
In the sunshine, the turquoise seas and talcum-powder sand at Luskentyre, on the Hebridean island of Harris, are almost Bahamian.
4) Crag action
I love a bit of cragginess. Bedruthan Steps in north Cornwall takes rugged good looks to extremes.
5) Sand...
- 7/24/2010
- by Mariella Frostrup, David Nicholls
- The Guardian - Film News
Chicks On Speed, Dundee
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
Chicks On Speed are less a rock group than a fulfilment of every person's presumption that all art students are cuckoo. Emerging from Munich Academy Of Arts in the mid-90s, Melissa Logan, Kiki Moorse and Alex Murray-Leslie have gone on to eradicate the boundaries between fine art and trashy entertainment, punk performance and electroclash pop, historically informed painting and flashy graffiti, spirited commitment and an irreverent disregard for considerations of good taste. Their take on street fashion includes dresses made from plastic bags and gaffa tape. This, their first solo UK show, resembles more the aftermath of an art college end-of-term party than an exhibition, and will include the construction of the world's first wireless guitar stilettos.
Dundee Contemporary Arts, to 8 Aug
Robert Clark
Picasso, London
While Tate Liverpool is currently showing the iconic cubist's anti-war paintings and exploring his commitment to communism, the Gagosian...
- 6/4/2010
- by Robert Clark, Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
London -- Brendan Gleeson is teaming up with "Ned Kelly" scribe John Michael McDonagh to star in McDonagh's "The Guard," an Irish-set comedy thriller also featuring Don Cheadle, Mark Strong and Liam Cunningham.
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
Gleeson joins the movie as it begins shooting on location in Ireland.
It details the story of an unorthodox Irish policeman (Gleeson) who joins forces with a straitlaced FBI agent (Cheadle) to take on an international drug-smuggling gang.
Gleeson's character is billed as a small-town cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
Written and directed by McDonagh the film also stars Fionnuala Flanagan, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan, Pat Shortt and newcomer Katarina Cas.
The film is produced by Reprisal's Chris Clark and Flora Fernandez Marengo and Element's...
- 10/29/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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