Novel. David Mamet's Master Class Memo to the Writers of The Unit. CBS's drama The Unit, about the lives of the highly trained members of a top-secret military division, was canceled last year, but a memo to its writing staff from its executive producer David Mamet has just surfaced online.
(The source appears to be the online writing collective Ink Canada.) If you think you know where this is heading, you might be wrong: Besides the fact that it's written in all-caps, there's nothing particularly ranty, pejorative or potty-mouthed about it.