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David Mamet

Broadway Looks at Racism in the Obama Era

David Finkle | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: E. Y. Harburg, Shrek, Broadway Plays and Musicals, South Pacific, Hamlet, Barack Obama Influence, Oscar Hammerstein, Finian's Rainbow, Memphis, Avenue Q, West Side Story, Jude Law, Race, After Miss Julie, August: Osage County, E.L. Doctorow, Burton Lane, Hair, Racism, In the Heights, Patrick Marber, Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Superior Donuts, Ragtime, New York News
David Finkle

Of the 35 productions running or opening shortly -- including Hamlet and Patrick Marber's After Miss Julie -- at least 10 offerings have a rainbow-coalition hue.

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Broadway Revivals Founder on Brighton Beach

David Finkle | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Siena Miller, John Stamos, Wicked, Oleanna, Bye Bye Birdie, Broadway Bound, The New York Times, Broadway, Hugh Jackman, Revivals, Laurie Metcalf, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon, Jude Law, After Miss Julie, Jonny Lee Miller, Hair, Ben Brantley, David Mamet, Charles Isherwood, Daniel Craig, Rosanne, New York News
David Finkle

Too often the only review that counts is the Times pronouncement via Ben Brantley or Charles Isherwood. This time Brantley's response was not what's known as "a money notice."

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Bill Pullman Does Oleanna

Regina Weinreich | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Julia Stiles, David Mamet, Bill Pullman, Oleanna, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

As with all Mamet's plays, the subject is language, the rapid fire staccato of one liners and half completed words that make up contemporary conversation, confrontation, and conflict.

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Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: A.J. Liebling, Chicago Olympics, David Mamet, Saul Alinsky, Sara Paretsky, Gloria Steinem, Herman Hesse, Chicago, Books News
Adam Hanft

Chicago is an Olympian city when it comes to literature and the arts. And what better time than now to remind us? Here's a sampling of some of those triumphs of the sedentary.

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New Rule: Oys In The Attic

Bill Maher | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Glengarry Glen Ross, Video, Bill Maher, David Mamet, Anne Frank, New Rule, Comedy News
Bill Maher

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Do You Know the Muffin Man? Yes, He Lives Down the Block

David Finkle | Posted 09.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Brian Murray, Louise Bourgeois, Marie Mullen, Martin McDonagh, The Muffin House, Thomas' English Muffins, West 20th Street, David Mamet, Samuel Bath Thomas, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Atlantic Theater Company, William Ivey Long, Ben-Zion, New York News
David Finkle

If it hadn't been for Karen, the mailperson, I still wouldn't know about The Muffin House and its importance to history and to my block, West 20th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues.

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James Spader Set For Mamet On Broadway

AP | Posted 06.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Theater, Broadway, Race, David Mamet, James Spader, New York-New York, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — James Spader is trading in Boston for Broadway. Producer Jeffrey Richards says the star of TV's "Boston Legal" as well as the film "...

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When Is a Lawyer Not a Lawyer? When She Acts

Jim Luce | Posted 06.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Internet Movie Database, Sydney Pollack, Jim Brill, Film, Tort Liability, Travel, Thought Leaders, Diane Keaton, Lawyer, Intellectual Property, King’s College in London, Pardon My French, Global Citizens, Robert Duvall, Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Compliance, Creativity, Open Door, Tony Randall, Cate Blanchett, Grace Kelly, Jim Luce, International Organization, University of Paris Sorbonne, Anouk Dutruit, Without Judgment, Johnny Depp, Broadway Theater, Sanford Meisner Technique, Eli Wallach, Gregory Peck, Off-Broadway Theater, Stanislavski System, James Caan, Litigation, 15 Waffles, Sitcom, Acting, Youtube, David Mamet, Style News
Jim Luce

Making a career in acting is a challenging prospect. What makes Anouk Dutruit's ambitions even more invigorating is her other career. By day and international lawyer, by night an actor.

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A Year In David Mamet's Marketplace

Rob Warmowski | Posted 04.11.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Brain-Dead Liberal, Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet, Capitalism, Mamet, Chicago News
Rob Warmowski

One year ago, Mamet wrote of his transformation from a "brain-dead liberal" to a person who sees the country mainly as a "marketplace." I can't help but ask: how's that free market working out?

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Jeremy Piven: The Un-American Cop-Out

Tom Gregory | Posted 01.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Barrymore Theater, Speed the Plow, Hbo, James Stewart, Broadway, Theater, Mercury Toxicity, Jeremy Piven, Mercury Poisoning, 2009, Diva, High Mercury Count, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, David Mamet, Entourage, Hollywood, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Piven's abrupt departure from Speed the Plow was a low in the history of Broadway. Every actor who ever uttered the edict "the show must go on" rolled his eyes, or rolled over in his grave.

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Mamet and Mercury

Kate Kelly | Posted 01.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Speed-the-Plow, Fda, Environment, Jeremy Piven, Mercury Poisoning, David Mamet, Green News
Kate Kelly

While there may be a back story that prompted David Mamet to make his remark about Jeremy Piven, his comment is wildly inappropriate in that it makes light of a very serious environmental problem.

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UPDATED: Jeremy Piven Quits Broadway, "Extreme Mercury Toxicity"

Variety, ET | Posted 01.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Theater, Broadway, Speed the Plow, Jeremy Piven, David Mamet, High Mercury Count, Mercury Toxicity, Mercury Poisoning, Entertainment News

***Alarming update from Piven's doctor below about his high mercury toxicity, the symptoms and the possible causes*** From Variety: Jeremy Piven will...

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Jason Linkins

Blagojevich Scandal A Font Of Creative Inspiration

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.11.2009 | Media

Read More: The Wire, Blagojevich Obama, Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Arrested, Blagojevich Indictment, David Mamet, Blagojevich Corruption, Media News

Yesterday, I made mention of how neatly this whole unfolding Blagojevich scandal seemed to neatly intersect with so many cultural referents. An inves...

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My Take on Blagojevich

David Mamet | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Celebrities Talk Politics, Blagojevich, Chicago Governor, Patricia Blagojevich, David Mamet Blagojevich, Mamet Blagojevich, Illinois Governor, Blagojevich Democrat, Gov. Blagojevich, George Ryan, Friends of Blagojevich, Patti Blagojevich, Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Blagojevich Obama, Blagojevich Complaint, Governor Arrested, Blagojevich Indictment, Blagojevich Arrested, David Mamet, Rob Blagojevich, Patrick Fitzgerald, Blagojevich Mamet, Politics News
David Mamet

I am from Chicago, and, so, having been disillusioned with politics at an early age I do not become involved. The only reason I vote is because they pay me.

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Some Critics Enjoy Shooting 'Buffalo'

Robert Loerzel | Posted 12.27.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Robert Falls, American Buffalo, Chicago Theater, Broadway, David Mamet, Theater Critics, Goodman Theatre, Cedric the Entertainer, John Leguizamo, Haley Joel Osment, Chicago News
Robert Loerzel

It's worth remembering that critics did not greet American Buffalo with universal acclaim when it first appeared in 1975.

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Star Vehicle 'American Buffalo' Closes On Broadway

AP | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: American Buffalo, Theater, Broadway, David Mamet, Haley Joel Osment, John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer, Elisabeth Moss, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — "American Buffalo" has come _ and gone. The revival of the David Mamet play starring John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer and Hale...

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A Modest Proposal

Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nathan Lane November the Play, David Mamet November, Theater, Nathan Lane November, David Mamet, Nathan Lane, David Mamet November the Play, Politics News
Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet

What about if, in our ongoing contest of seemingly irreconcilable differences, instead of our interminable "legislative process," each side merely elected a Champion, and they "spun the dreidl?"

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The Electoral Season

Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nathan Lane November the Play, David Mamet November, Theater, Nathan Lane November, David Mamet, Nathan Lane, David Mamet November the Play, Politics News
Pres. Charles H.P. Smith, aka David Mamet

My opponents are yapping at my heels. I have been asked if I wish them ill. No, I do not wish them ill. If I wished them ill I would withdraw from the race. For this job, finally, is an unmitigated pain in the ass.

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David Mamet On His Political New Play And Hillary

NY Mag | Boris Kachka | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Hillary Clinton, David Mamet, Nathan Lane, November, Entertainment News

When the star of The Producers decides to play a U.S. president in a Broadway play written by David Mamet (November, opening January 17), is it any wo...

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Jessica Alba Broadway Bound? Mamet Play Courts Starlet

NY Post | Michael Riedel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Jessica Alba Broadway, Speed the Plow, Madonna, David Mamet, Jessica Alba, Entertainment News

Jessica Alba may be following in Madonna's footsteps. The sexy star of "The Fantastic Four" is being courted to star in a Broadway revival of David M...

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