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American Buffalo by David Mamet

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Author Biography

Name: David Alan Mamet
Variant Name: David Mamet
Birth Date: November 30, 1947
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, playwright/dramatist, screenwriter, director/producer

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Biography of David Mamet
7076 words, approx. 23.6 pages
David Mamet was born and raised in Chicago. "We have some strange local mythology. No Chicagoan makes gangster jokes or thinks of the City as particularly violent (which it isn't). (Al Capone did say, 'You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun tha...
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Biography of David (Alan) Mamet
3796 words, approx. 12.7 pages
"In this country of incessant obbligatos accompanying all activity--music in offices, and elevators, tapes in cars, radios in restaurants--Mamet has heard the ultimate Muzak, the dissonant din of people yammering at one another and not connecting. He is...
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Biography of David Alan Mamet
1616 words, approx. 5.4 pages
Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet is highly praised for his accurate rendering of American vernacular, through which he explores the relationship between language and behavior. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1947, he studied at Goddard...


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American Buffalo Information
414 words, approx. 1 pages
American Buffalo is a groundbreaking 1976 play by American playwright David...


News and Journals
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Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Cummings is going to play at Buffalo.(Sports)
03/14/2007: 786 words, approx. 3 pages
Byline: John Leusch Daily Herald Sports Writer About 10 years ago, Prospect senior Kelly Cummings and her sister Meghan would head to Loyola University to watch their older sister Kim play softball for the Division I program in Chicago. "Our mom...
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Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
PLAY DIVES HEADFIRST INTO THE MESSINESS OF LIFE STROLLERS WILL PRODUCE DAVID MAMET'S ROUGH-AROUND-THE-EDGES `AMERICAN BUFFALO.'.(Showcase)
09/03/2000: 1,203 words, approx. 4 pages
Be warned immediately. ''American Buffalo'' has the skanky air of association with gross-out, ill-educated and far-out stupid men. It is fascinating as a play, if one can accept the -- as Ben Brantley, a New York Times critic put it -- ''sooty,...
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AP News
UT acquires David Mamet papers
4/18/2007: 277 words, approx. 1 pages
The papers of playwright, writer and film director David Mamet _ from handwritten journals to correspondence with actors _ has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas.Mamet, author of more than 50 plays and 25 screenplays, has won...
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AP News
Lawsuits: Coin label is deceptive
12/17/2006: 736 words, approx. 3 pages
To avid collectors, coins that stand out as rare or of exceptional quality are worth more than their weight in platinum, silver or gold.Numismatic enthusiasts are often willing to pay a premium for American Eagle, American Buffalo and other specialty coins labeled "first strikes" because...
 


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Critical Review by Stanley Kauffmann
1,238 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Kauffmann criticizes the casting choices for the film version of American Buffalo, but provides a positive assessment of the work overall.
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
279 words, approx. 1 pages
In several of his plays, most notably in American Buffalo, Mamet has demonstrated genuine dramatic gifts. He possesses a tender sensibility and a keen sense of the stage. His plays shift in focus and in aim, as if they were meant not so much to interest or entertain us as to discover who he is: Mamet appears to be seeking his theme, his artistic identity. It is a quest which inspires sympathy. (p. 581) [The Woods] is all literally "true to life"—which is exactly what troubles me. Innume...


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