David Mamet

Got ART?

Elysabeth Alfano | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Jon Langford, Dj, Albany Park Theatre, Steve Dawson, Improv, Theater, Race, Music, Painting, Burkeman, Art, Tracy Letts, Nicholas Barron, Chicago, Theatre, Fear No Art, Gallery, Comedy, Chicago Around Town, David Mamet, Chicago News

Rene Romero Schuler's solo show at the Jennifer Norback Fine Art Gallery is up through the end of the month and shows incredible sensitivity to the female state; the outer image and the more ephemeral internal spirit.

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Movie Review: Haywire

Marshall Fine | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Ewan McGregor, Lem Dobbs, Steven Soderbergh, Gina Carano, The Limey, Michael Fassbender, Bill Paxton, Haywire, Haywire Movie Review, Channing Tatum, David Mamet, Entertainment News

I don't know whether Gina Carano has a future as an actress but she certainly kicks ass in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, a jet-propelled action-thriller that has little time for wasted motion.

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Haiku Reviews: 'Hair', Cirque du Soleil and Some Electric Cellos

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Mahler, Walt Disney Hall, Peter Frank, Andrea Zittel, Hair the Musical, Lisette Model, George Heymont, Classical Music, Eric Doeringer, Burgoyne Diller, Video, Art, Laurence Vittes, April Gornik, Abstract Art, Doug Ohlson, Melissa Meyer, Robert Therrien, Cirque Du Soleil, Clinton Hill, Handel Streams of Pleasure, Johannes Brahms, Theatre, David Mamet, Fay Ray, Haiku Reviews, Gustavo Dudamel, Arts News

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditio...

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What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011

Correspondence can speak volumes about the letter-writer. From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple-choice form letters, what do a letter's illustrations reveal?

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PHOTO: Al Pacino Rocks Crazy Disguise For New Film

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: David Mamet Phil Spector, Al Pacino Phil Spector, David Mamet, Al Pacino Phil Spector HBO, Phil Spector Murder, Al Pacino, Phil Spector, Phil Spector Trial, Video, Entertainment News

A legendary music producer who helped shepherd in R&B and worked with some of the biggest names in rock history, Phil Spector's career already warrant...

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Christopher Hitchens Slams David Mamet's New Book

nytimes.com | CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Book Reviews, The Secret Knowledge, The Secret Knowledge on the Dismantling of American Culture, Christopher Hitchens Reviews, David Mamet, Christopher Hitchens, Books News

This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have...

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Book Review Roundup: A Portrait Of India And A Dissection Of A Novel That Changed The Course Of History

Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: You Think That's Bad, Book Review Roundup, India a Portrait, Julian Barnes, David S. Reynolds, Book Reviews, David Mamet, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Jim Shepard, Books News

"The Secret Knowledge On the Dismantling of American Culture" by David Mamet New York Times This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written ...

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Book Review Roundup: British Rock And An Amazonian Forest Adventure

Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Daughters of the Revolution, Book Review Roundup, Lisa See, Carolyn Cooke, To Be Sung Underwater, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, Ann Patchett, State of Wonder, David Mamet, Tom McNeal, Dreams of Joy, Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain?S Visionary Music, Rob Young, Books News

"Daughters of the Revolution" by Carolyn Cooke San Francisco Chronicle This is a dramatic social novel, a successful entwining of people that c...

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Infallible Israel

Ariel Gonzalez | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Israel, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, End Times, Apocalypse, Barack Obama, Gaza, West Bank, Christian Right, Israel's Nuclear Weapons, Tony Kushner, US Israel Relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Aipac, Woody Allen, World News

Israel is no more. Its cities lay in ruins, its people wallow in oppression. All signs of Jewish presence in the Holy Land are being eradicated: synag...

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PLAN ForYourArt: May 26-June 1

Bettina Korek | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Lacma, Andrea Zittel, Ricky Jay, See Line Gallery, Tim Burton, Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, Foryourart, Regen Projects, Annie Wharton Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Arts, Diver, Paul Thek, David Mamet, Elliott Hundley, Design Loves Art, Los Angeles News

See the first retrospective in the U.S. devoted to Paul Thek. These early works, which Thek began making in 1964 and called "meat pieces," resemble flesh and were encased in Plexiglass boxes.

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William H. Macy Goes for Broke (and Drunk) in Showtime's Shameless

Cynthia Ellis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Camel, Chicago, Jurassic Park, The Office, St Nicholas Company, House of Games, The Oscars, Desperate Housewives, Shameless, Magnolia, Fargo, David Mamet, The Cooler, Archie Bunker, Joan Cusack, Wag the Dog, William H. Macy, Seabiscuit, John Wells, Er, Showtime, Boogie Nights, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, 2011, Stuart Gordon, Atlantic Theatre Company, Paul Abbott, Goddard College, Cynthia Ellis, Marlon Brando, Felicity Huffman, The Spanish Prisoner, Leslie Hassler, John Levy, Entertainment News

William H. Macy has a voice that could sell needles to a porcupine. He can say the word "Golly" and have it be rife with unspoken meaning and depth.

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Interview: Edward Zwick's Love and Other Concerns

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Moby Dick, About Last Night..., Shampoo, Family, Thirtysomething, Glory, Ali Mcgraw, Parkinson's Disease, Movies, In the Heart of the Sea, Ed Zwick Interview, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lawrence Kasdan, Blue Valentine, Paul Mazursky, A Star Is Born, Pfizer, Carnal Knowledge, Love Story, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Anne Hathaway, Ryan O'Neal, Marshall Fine Interview, Once and Again, Marshall Herskovitz, Courage Under Fire, Marshall Fine, My So-Called Life, Shakespeare in Love, Almodovar, Viagra, Cameron Crowe, Love and Other Drugs, Ed Zwick, David Mamet, Nc-17, Nathaniel Philbrick, Entertainment News

It's a few days before his film, Love and Other Drugs, reaches theaters and Edward Zwick is sipping tea, as calm as can be expected.

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THEATRE: Americans Take To The London Stage

nytimes.com | MATT WOLF | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Guare, Paradise Found, West End, London Theater, Legally Blonde the Musical, Theatre, Theater, American Theater, Legally Blonde, David Mamet, London, August Wilson, Arts News

LONDON -- Here's a truism about the London theater that gets voiced infrequently: its indebtedness to American titles -- and talent -- has increased e...

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Act like an elite! Vote progressive!

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Film With Me in It, William H. Macy, Tea Party, David Mamet, Elite, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, State and Main, Politics News

I don't consider myself an intellectual. But, apparently, at least by the definition being touted by the right wing in this country, I must be one. If...

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Investing In The Movies

Morris Ruskin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Investing, David Mamet, Film, Economy, Jack Lemmon, Movies, Al Pacino, Business News

RICKY ROMA Stocks, bonds, objects of art, real estate. What are they? (pause) An op...

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Stage Door: La Bete, A Life in the Theater, Lady Rizo

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Broadway, Mark Rylance, David Mamet, Cabaret, Entertainment, David Hyde Piere, Music, NY Events, NY Culture, New York News

First performed in 1991, with a dazzlingly white-and-black skewed set, La Bete's current incarnation is in a towering library. The ideas may be lofty, but the reality is disquieting.

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On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Simmons, Junot Diaz, Andy Borowitz, Wells Tower, T.R. Knight, Steven Adler, Joyce Carol Oates, Ace Frehley, New Yorker Festival, Malcolm Gladwell, Rickie Lee Jones, Paul Krugman, A Life in the Theatre, Saturday Night Live, David Mamet, Jeffrey Toobin, Patrick Stewart, New York News

The discussions at the New Yorker Festival have become kind of legendary with events often selling out just minutes after they go on sale.

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Professional Pictures: Movies About Our Day Jobs

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Broadcasting, Charlie Sheen, Kirk Douglas, Lawyers, Oliver Stone, William Holden, Billy Wilder, Faye Dunaway, Best Movies on DVD, Real Estate, Rock Hudson, Best Movies by Farr, Business, Professions, Kevin Spacey, Sidney Lumet, Peter Finch, Finance, William Wyler, Ingrid Bergman, Doris Day, Paddy Chayefsky, Jack Lemmon, The-Corporation-2004, David Mamet, Alec Baldwin, Gregory Peck, Michael Douglas, Rod Serling, Entertainment News

As seen through the revealing lens of timeless film, you can derive a measure of comfort and perspective amidst the seeming complexity of it all, because the pressures and vicissitudes of the work place go back a very long way.

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David Mamet's Romance at Bay Street: A Review

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matt McGrath, Joey Slotnick, Murphy Davis, Darrell Hammond, Sybil Christopher, Joe Pallister, David Mamet, Reg Rogers, Richard Kind, Chris Bauer, Entertainment News

You know you are in David Mamet's world when the expletives fly rapid fire, one distasteful zinger after another, breaking every taboo. You laugh, and...

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T.R. Knight Returning To Broadway

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Theater, Grey's Anatomy, Broadway, A Life in the Theatre, T.R. Knight, David Mamet, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Former "Grey's Anatomy" star T.R. Knight has prescribed a return to Broadway for himself. It was announced Thursday that Knight, who...

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University of Phoenix: Always Be Closing

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Apollo Group, For-Profits, For-Proft Colleges, University of Phoenix, Gao, Federal Student Aid, Higher Education, Student Loans, Senator Tom Harkin, George Kutz, Government Accountability Office, Arne Duncan, Education Department, Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, USC Professor William Tierney, Sacramento Bee, For-Profit Colleges, College News

The only "student learning outcomes" these for-profit corporations posing as colleges recognize are those that fill their own pockets with tax dollars that are supposed to be going to deserving students who just want an education.

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Where Do We Go From Here?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Press, Race, Intolerance, Responsibility, Credibility, Ethics, The Media, Shirley Sherrod, Public Trust, David Mamet, Churchill, Fairness, Journalism, Media News

How will news editors and government officials translate the lessons from the Sherrod case into better ethical decision making?

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Mamet Tells Colbert Broadway Is Dead, Misses Point

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Tony Awards, Colbert Report, New York City, Theatre, Broadway, Arts, David Mamet, Hunter Foster, Hollywood, Arts News

David Mamet, the often cantankerous playwright and director, has been playing the book circuit while promoting his new page turner, Theatre.

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David Mamet On 'The Colbert Report': 'Theater Is Always Dying,' 'Directors Are Mostly Useless' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, The Colbert Report, David Mamet Conservative, Mamet, David Mamet Children's Book, Author Interviews, Stephen Colbert, Books, David Mamet Colbert, Stephen Colbert Author Interview, David Mamet, David Mamet Theatre, Books News

David Mamet, author and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, was on "The Colbert Report" last night to talk about two new books, "Theatre" and "The Tria...

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Mamet Addresses Issues of Race

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Show, David Alan Grier, Acting, Race, Play, Kerry Washington, Theater, Broadway, David Mamet, Performance, Richard Thomas, James Spader, Ethel Barrymore, New York News

Mamet's chosen entry into the difficult discussion of race leaves some with ambivalence not over the subject matter at play, but the mechanism to put it on display.

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