David Mamet
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Isn't that David Mamet's daughter? Doesn't Brian Williams think it's weird that his daughter is having graphic sex on TV? How can he handle doing the news after this?
The appeal of David Mamet's adaptation lies not in its conceptual brilliance, but in the way he has stripped away the theatrical artifice to cut straight to the soul of the drama.
Playwriting and acting are connected but different ... I'd have to agree with David Mamet: the writer creates the action, the actor clarifies the action.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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'Girls' on HBO is raunchy, and real
the latter a man/child with delusions of sexual prowess. Meanwhile, another pal, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet , daughter of David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse) gets a visitor: Jessa Johansson (Jemima Kirke, essentially reprising her role from Dunham 's 2010 film "Tiny Read more »
Around the web
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TV: TV Club: Sports Night, “Pilot”/"The Apology"
and Bulworth. Secondarily, we might have been excited to see Felicity Huffman on our TV screens, since we were big David Mamet fans and she was a member of his regular troupe of players. For the last four summers I’ve written in this space about NewsRadio, 3:51 PM from The A.V. Club Read more »
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Collective Collaborative Players look at live-in lady love
Prize-winner David Mamet is not known for his female characters. In most of his plays, loud, foul-mouthed men who seem to have been born with an uncouth amount of testosterone throw out F-bombs with abandon and practice verbal castration when necessary. In 5:34 AM from Charleston City Paper Read more »
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American Ensemble Theater’s double-bill of ‘Bobby Gould’ and ‘Navigating Turbulence’ comes up short
lesser, frothier works by David Mamet, such as his 1989 comic one-act, “Bobby Gould in Hell,” bristle with the playwright’s classic identifiers. There’s that refrain, “Do you see? Do you see?” that often punctuates his badda-bing, badda-boom dialogue. And from The Washington Post Read more »
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Heat-Pacers Trash Talk Power Rankings
my team went soft. S-O-F-T." — Larry Bird This is astronaut status. Nobody is topping this. Maybe if Lance Stephenson gets David Mamet to write him a profanity-laced monologue that he delivers while wearing the Russell Westbrook for Kohl's fashion line. Maybe from ESPN Read more »
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Rodale's 'Best Life' Making Comeback
well-rounded editorial and big-name contributors like David Mamet and Jay McInerney, Best Life was popular with readers and advertisers, carrying brands like brands like Lexus, Charles Schwab and Yves Saint Laurent. However, it became a victim of its newness from AdWeek Read more »
