David Mamet's Village Voice essay on his 'revision'--Wall St. Journal

Seeking a clue to Mr. Mamet's change in view ("...No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal," linked in this post), writer sees independence of playwrights vs screenwriters:

• "Hollywood does a good job of policing the public political activities and statements of its workforce. Step out of its left line, the man comes and take you away. It helps the policers that

• Hollywood's writers have little script autonomy. They do as told and get used to it.

• Playwrights, by contrast, have total control over what their scripts say.

This, one suspects, affects the two trades' habits of thinking."...

• From Wall St. Journal column by Daniel Henninger, "David Mamet's Revision," 3/20/08

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