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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, 'You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun tha...

"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...

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...

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...

In an effort to get more people to notice its new vehicles, Ford Motor Co. has enlisted the help of filmmaker and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet to direct some of its commercials.The television spots, to debut Tuesday night during Fox's "American Idol," compare the...

Prestige revivals mark this spring's theater season, with several potentially bankable classics opening on Broadway in the next month. Among the most anticipated are Tennessee Williams' Southern dramas The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. Both productions, with star-studded and surprising casts, will attempt...

Actor Alec Baldwin was so moved by the story of an 18-year-old Army soldier who is scheduled to serve in Iraq, he's going to help pay for her college education after she leaves the military.Baldwin was so moved by a March 4 New York Times...

In the following essay, Worster examines the characters in Glengarry Glen Ross, their discussions about speech, and what their conversations reveal about their respective social status.

In the following review of Glengarry Glen Ross, Kauffmann studies the structural differences between the film version and the original play.

About Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross, a play by David Mamet, takes place in a Chicago real estate office that employs four salesmen at various stages of their careers. More than anything else, the play is about talking and desperation. The salesmen are always trying to sell even in their normal conversations. And their desperation becomes apparent as a crime is investigated in the office and the downward spiral of a onetime sales wonder plays itself out.