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, ...
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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,...
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"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 peop...
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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.
Obviously the one-set play with v...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
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 st...
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Teaching American Buffalo
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American Buffalo Lesson Plans contain 114 pages of teaching material, including:
Question 1 of 10:Banned for years, which 1971 film saw
Hoffman
play a berserk, gun-toting American in rural England?
Straw Dogs
Midnight Cowboy
Billy Bathgate
American Buffalo
Question 2 of ...
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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 Un...
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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...
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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...
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You might be forgiven for thinking that Nathan Lane was shot out of a cannon when the curtain rises on "November," David Mamet's maniacally funny new comedy now producing waves of laughter at Broad...
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Theresa Rebeck’s new play Mauritius has just opened at the Biltmore on Broadway—why?
I lose patience with plays like this. I try not to. The prolific Ms. Rebeck...
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Even while on trial, Buddy Cianci, the now-incarcerated former mayor of Providence, R.I., was proud of his Tony Soprano–like charisma. "Be careful of the toe that you step on today, because i...
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When big Broadway productions are fixed on the road before coming into town, it seems to me a good idea that everyone connected with the show is at least listening to audiences.If something is blat...
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A few afterthoughts on the perfect revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, directed by Joe Mantello, at the newly named Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on 45th Street:If there were a Tony Award for...
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Critical Review by Stanley Kauffmann
The Everyman: A DustinHoffman Quiz
