Highlights
Jeremy Piven is a New York-born, Evanston-reared actor who has won an Emmy award for playing Ari Gold, the preternaturally aggressive Hollywood agent who represents a hot-but-callow young actor named Vince Chase on the HBO hit series "Entourage." A graduate of Evanston Township High, he trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop, which his drama-teaching parents co-founded. Piven, who has become a major Hollywood player, won Emmy awards in 2006 and 2007. He has preformed in more than 44 films, had a recurring role on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" and even had his own (short-lived) network television series, "Cupid."
Jeremy Piven is a New York-born, Evanston-reared actor who has won an Emmy award for playing Ari Gold, the preternaturally aggressive Hollywood agent who represents a hot-but-callow young actor named Vince Chase on the HBO hit series "Entourage." A graduate of Evanston Township High, he trained at the Piven Theatre Workshop, which his drama-teaching parents co-founded. Piven, who has become a major Hollywood player, won Emmy awards in 2006 and 2007. He has preformed in more than 44 films, had a recurring role on HBO's "The Larry Sanders Show" and even had his own (short-lived) network television series, "Cupid."
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'American Buffalo' closes after 8-show run on Broadway
"American Buffalo" has come -- and gone. The revival of the David Mamet play starring John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer and Haley Joel Osment closed Sunday after a week's run of eight performances. The production opened Nov. 17 to largely...Tags: David Mamet, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, John Leguizamo, Music Theater, Theater
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THE BUZZ
MAN: HE REALLY WANTED TO HURT ME. An escort has told a London court that Boy George manacled him to a bedroom wall and beat him with a metal chain after accusing him of hacking into his computer. The former Culture Club singer is on trial, accused of...Tags: Boy George, David Mamet, Metal and Mineral, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, John Leguizamo
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Why watch? Beats the stuffing out of us
How do you hype the Thanksgiving Day game broadcast that can't be hyped, the seemingly massive mismatch between the 10-1 Tennessee Titans and the 0-11 Detroit Lions? Jim Nantz, who is calling today's Titans-Lions game on CBS, tried this in a network news...Tags: Brad Johnson, Super Bowl, New York Jets, Football, Terrell Owens
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Review: 'American Buffalo'
linda.winer@newsday.comBroadway's unofficial David Mamet festival and revival smack-down continued last night with an enjoyable if not revelatory "American Buffalo." The 1975 serious comedy established Mamet in New York as both a major playwright and as the term for a dirty-...Tags: David Mamet, John Leguizamo, Broadway, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino
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'American Buffalo' and 'Speed-the-Plow' open on Broadway
Tribune criticNEW YORK—If you had asked people to guess the cast of the new Broadway revival of David Mamet's "American Buffalo," they'd have been about as likely to come up with the trio of John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer and Haley Joel Osment ("The Sixth...Tags: David Mamet, John Leguizamo, Broadway, Goodman Theatre, Values
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'American Buffalo' and 'Speed-the-Plow'
Theater CriticThe extremity of our greed-fueled economic crisis may have pessimists wondering whether American values have reached an all-time low. Two David Mamet plays from decades past currently being revived on Broadway suggest not. Our old conniving friends from...Tags: John Leguizamo, Dining and Drinking, Movies, Music Theater, Theater
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Fast chat: Elisabeth Moss
Special to NewsdayElisabeth Moss floats into the Ethel Barrymore Theatre a day after "Speed-the-Plow's" opening night. She was at the cast party till dawn and slept till 4 p.m., she admits. In her dressing room, every surface is covered with flowers. Vase after vase,...Tags: Martin Sheen, David Mamet, Dancing, Ethel Barrymore, Madonna
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TV TALK
DAYTIME EARLY SHOW (7 a.m., CBS/2) - Saving money TODAY (7 a.m., NBC/4) - Tina Fey GOOD MORNING AMERICA (7 a.m., ABC/7) - John Mellencamp, Sen. Barack Obama REGIS & KELLY (9 a.m., WABC/7) - Tina Fey THE MORNING SHOW (9 a.m., WNYW/5) - George Duran...Tags: Mariah Carey, John Legend, Sarah Silverman, Zac Efron, Bonnie Hunt
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David Mamet is all around Broadway
linda.winer@newsday.comQuick. Name the most produced playwright, living or dead, on Broadway this year. Shakespeare? Not nearly. Neil Simon? Not anymore. I don't know what the surprise answer says about the mentality of today's theatergoing public, but I prefer to see it...Tags: John Leguizamo, Thanksgiving, Neil Simon, Movies, Jeff Goldblum
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Review: Jeremy Piven in David Mamet's 'Speed-the-Plow'
linda.winer@newsday.comWhen "Speed-the-Plow" opened 20 years ago, David Mamet's three-character Hollywood satire was infamous as the play that cast Madonna in her painfully earnest Broadway debut. On the other hand, the revenge comedy was cherished for the vicious and...Tags: Kevin Spacey, David Mamet, Madonna, Broadway, Movies
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Sex, thugs & 'RocknRolla': Crime flick is action-packed
NewsdayJust as Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven and its sequels seem distinctly American, reflecting the glitz and ersatz class of Las Vegas, so do Guy Ritchie's crime capers feel distinctly British. His latest, RocknRolla, set in the greasy streets and...Tags: Crimes, Gerard Butler, Family, Assault, Robert De Niro
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