Playboy Interview: David Mamet
April, 1995
In a joke that made the rounds not long ago, a beggar in New York City's theater district approaches a well-dressed man for a handout. "Neither a beggar nor a borrower be," the man says sanctimoniously. "William Shakespeare.""Yeah?" the beggar fires back. "Well, fuck you. David Mamet."It is a measure of Mamet's influence that he could claim title to that line.But even if somebody else (Shakespeare, maybe) said it first, nobody has said it better, or put it...
