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Mamet in 'Come Back' Mode
18 December 2009 1:59 PM, PST
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The 90's were David Mamet's decade, the 00's not so much. If you're like me, the only noteworthy item in the last ten was the grossly under-appreciated 2004 film Spartan. Mamet will begin the new decade by wearing the scribe and producer's hat but leaving helming duties to Michael Worth, an unknown television actor whose turned to directing and is also producing a project that is based on a little known out of print book called Come Back To Sorrento by Dawn Powell. - The 90's were David Mamet's decade, the 00's not so much. If you're like me, the only noteworthy item in the last ten was the grossly under-appreciated 2004 film Spartan. Mamet will begin the new decade by wearing the scribe and producer's hat but leaving helming duties to Michael Worth, an unknown television actor whose turned to directing and is also producing a project that
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Mamet Rebounds As Come Back To Sorrento Picks Up Producers
17 December 2009 9:15 AM, PST
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Last we heard from David Mamet, his script for a re-imagining of The Diary of Anne Frank was being rejected by Disney. While Disney seemed surprised that Mamet's work was not to their liking, the internet community was surprised from the beginning that the House of Mouse would hire a writer whose most famous work contains almost 140 variations of the word "fuck." But considering the man already has over 30 screenwriting credits to his name, it's not a shock that he has gotten back on the horse, and now his newest script has found people to develop it.
According to THR, Mamet's newest screenplay, titled Come Back To Sorrento has found a home as Firefly and Bla Bla Bla Productions have joined to produce it. The script is an adaptation of the 1932 novel of the same name by Dawn Powell. Set during the Great Depression, the story centers on a music
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'Magnolia' Bloomed Ten Years Ago Today; We Haven't Forgotten
17 December 2009 2:38 AM, PST
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Beware of anyone who associates with Ricky Jay. He shows up in the films of David Mamet, who always loves a good con. He's the narrator of one of my favorite movies of 2009, The Brothers Bloom, also a movie about con artists. When there is trickery and sleight of hand afoot, look around and you might notice a large bearded man peering around the corners.
I know a magician. He's a pretty damn good one. His name is Jerry. To tell you more is to reveal his secrets. I asked him a few weeks ago which magician he is most impressed by. I mentioned some popular names like David Blaine (you know, to help him out). He shook his head at every name I mentioned and said, "That's easy. The greatest magician I've ever seen is Ricky Jay."
Ricky Jay pops
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Mamet Pens Depression-Era "Sorrento"
16 December 2009 10:59 PM, PST
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Firefly and Bla Bla Bla Productions are teaming on the $10 million Depression-era romantic drama "Come Back To Sorrento" says The Hollywood Reporter.
David Mamet ("Wag the Dog," "State and Main") adapted the script from Dawn Powell's novel about a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star. Michael Worth ("God's Ears") directs the project while Mamet, Worth, Matthew Hobbs and Kristin Holt will produce.
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Firefly and Bla Bla Bla to Make Come Back to Sorrento
16 December 2009 9:24 PM, PST
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In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, U.K. production entity Firefly is joining forces with L.A.-based Bla Bla Bla Productions to turn a David Mamet screenplay titled Come Back To Sorrento into a feature film. According to Firefly, the $10 million budgeted picture will be directed by Michael Worth. The script is based on a novel by Dawn Powell. It is set during The Great Depression and details the story of a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher gets more than he expected when he goes to a small town in Ohio to teach music. Things get complicated when he gets involved with a housewife seeking a forgotten dream. Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in talks to star in this project.
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This Week on Stage: Mamet's 'Race' and 'So Help Me God' open
12 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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The past week saw the opening of two new shows in New York City. The first is a new play from David Mamet, Race, which EW critic Lisa Schwarzbaum awarded a C grade and called "a four-person dramatic tap dance about the lies blacks and whites tell each other about each other." The other—without a doubt, much lighter fare—is a lost backstage play called So Help Me God starring Kristen Johnston that EW's Jessica Shaw gave a B, commenting that "Johnston seems to relish every second" of her time on stage, "strutting around the stage in diva-worthy capes and lacy gowns,
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- Tanner Stransky
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A Review of David Mamet's 'Race'
10 December 2009 12:35 PM, PST
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I have long been an admirer of David Mamet, as most people would be who admire rapid-fire dialogue, twists and turns and the ultimate realization that most people have their own agendas, are weighted down with self=interest, and no reluctance to betray. Good is not a given in Mr. Mamet's world, and was nowhere visible at the star-studded opening of Race the other evening, including the after-party.
The play itself concerns a would-be client accused of rape(a believable Richard Thomas, though it's hard to imagine him as violent, or, for that matter overly sexual) of a very small law firm with a very big office-- too large for the play, really, not to mention its two lead-lawyers, James Spader and David Alan Grier, and a young associate, Kerry Washington. The set, stretched the full width of the stage, ostensibly because
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- Gwen Davis
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David Mamet's Race Against the Cultural Clock
9 December 2009 3:37 PM, PST
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For a playwright very much identified with urban life, David Mamet never hesitates in sending sacred cows out to pasture. His hustlers and con men, ruthless salesmen and sleazy filmmakers -- and all those for whom sexual perversity and a potty mouth are signs of true cultural refinement -- have little patience for the taboos of the moment, whether it comes in the form of sexual harassment or political correctness.
Race, his latest play, which he also directed, opened this past weekend at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre and presents a two-act tutorial on the relationship between racial tension and racial privilege, the utter unreliability of the legal system to find the truth, and the media's irresistible impulse to spin a story -- especially a salacious one -- in the most dizzying of ways. (Think Tiger Woods.)
And Mamet lavishes his
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- Thane Rosenbaum
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This Week on Stage: Cate Blanchett stars in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
5 December 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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Stage fans, we find ourselves on a weekend where lots of the star-driven shows on the boards -- ranging from Oleanna and After Miss Julie to A Steady Rain and Hamlet -- are set to close. Single tear. But, never fear! A handful of great new shows have opened in the last week, too, so you're covered. Reviews of five new shows went up on EW.com this week: our critics' takes on the touring production of The 101 Dalmatians Musical (B-); and off-Broadway entries The Brother/Sister Plays (A), This (B+), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (C+), and A Streetcar Named Desire
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- Tanner Stransky
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Alec Baldwin: 'I'm quitting acting'
1 December 2009 8:34 AM, PST
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The 51-year-old actor, who is co-hosting the Oscars ceremony in February, tells a Us magazine that he plans to retire in 2012
Alec Baldwin has told a Us magazine that he considers his entire film career to be a failure and that he plans to retire from the industry shortly.
In a startling interview published in the December issue of Men's Journal, the 51-year-old actor said, "I don't have any interest in acting anymore."
Baldwin, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in Wayne Kramer's offbeat 2003 romance The Cooler, is no stranger to critical and box-office kudos: he was praised for his performances in films such as Martin Scorsese's The Departed and The Aviator, and David Mamet's State and Main. Recently, he has been a huge hit in the award-winning TV comedy 30 Rock.
He is also being tipped for another bite at the Oscars cherry next February, for his
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- Ben Child
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James Spader Plays Dark, Familiar Creep In Broadway Debut
26 November 2009 5:47 AM, PST
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"Cultivate the appearance of contrition," the character Jack Lawson, a lawyer, tells a white client accused of raping a black woman in "Race," a new play opening on Broadway next Sunday. As uttered with don't-waste-my-time iciness by the actor James Spader, the clipped and merciless directive telegraphs not only that this is dialogue by David Mamet, but also that it is set in the kind of up-for-grabs moral universe that Spader characters have been occupying in Hollywood for years.
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Galaxy Quest Blu-ray Review
24 November 2009 9:30 PM, PST
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When you talk about the year of cinema that was 1999, there are the films that come immediately. Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, The Matrix, Eyes Wide Shut. I love The Insider, have a soft spot for eXistenZ and Three Kings and then it starts getting complicated, as films like American Beauty, Girls Don’t Cry, and The Green Mile haven’t exactly weathered as well, while films like Office Space have only grown in estimation. At the time, most wouldn’t have listed Galaxy Quest as one of the great films of 1999, and yet ten years later, someone like David Mamet can call it a perfect movie. And it is. By Grabthar’s Hammer, my review of Galaxy Quest after the jump.
The premise is simple: what if aliens watched Star Trek and thought it was real? Tim Allen plays Jason Nesmith who plays Peter Quincy Taggart, the Kirk character
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- Andre Dellamorte
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This Week on Stage: 'Ragtime,' 'Equivocation' in L.A., and vibrators!
21 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST
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It was a busy week on the boards. Sunday saw the opening of a Broadway revival of the musical Ragtime (pictured right), which EW's Melissa Rose Bernardo calls "dazzling" and gives an A. Also on Broadway, Sarah Ruhl's provocatively titled comic play In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play opened to a decidedly lukewarm review from yours truly: "Ruhl's play could have benefited from a broader, farcical touch." Elsewhere on Broadway, the Julia Stiles-Bill Pullman revival of David Mamet's Oleanna announced plans to close on Jan. 3.
Off Broadway, we raved about both Alan Ayckbourn's My
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- Thom Geier
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Sam Worthington Gets Gritty in 'American Crime'
20 November 2009 10:32 AM, PST
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Few of us have had the chance to read Rick Remender's upcoming series, The Last Days of American Crime, but it's already tapped for the big-screen treatment. To sweeten the deal, American Crime already has a face. An Australian one. Mania is reporting that Sam Worthington has signed on to play the series' star criminal, Graham Brick.
American Crime is set in a near-future where the government has found a way to kill the criminal impulse in its citizens. That's good for everyone but the criminals, and chaos erupts as the unsavory element goes mad trying to get in one last job. One of these men is Graham Brick, who is in the midst of planning a big heist, and gets to watch all his best laid plans fall apart in a bloody fashion. I read the preview Radical handed out at Comic-Con this year, and like all previews, it
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Mamet's 'American Buffalo' At Palm Beach Dramaworks
15 November 2009 6:59 PM, PST
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West Palm Beach's only resident professional theatre, Palm Beach Dramaworks, will continue its 10th Anniversary season with "American Buffalo," the classic American play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, on Friday, February 19th (8Pm) at their intimate downtown theatre (322 Banyan Boulevard). Special priced preview performances are slated for February 17th & 18th (8Pm) and the production will play through April 4th.
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A serious actor, Mystic critics, Unhappy Haneke | Trailer Trash
14 November 2009 4:07 PM, PST
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>>A serious actor Michael Stuhlbarg is being talked of for Oscar nominations following his impressive performance as Larry Gopnik in the Coen brothers' latest comedy A Serious Man. Stuhlbarg is a little-known actor, despite a 20-year career on and off Broadway. He met Joel Coen after performing with the film-maker's wife, Frances McDormand, in a community theatre project. "It was the 52nd Street Project in which kids wrote the plays and professional actors would come in to perform their work," the actor tells me. "It was quite a thrill and I became good friends with Frances." She took her husband to see Stuhlbarg in a David Mamet adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance. Joel called Stuhlbarg in initially to play the Yiddish husband in A Serious Man's Yiddish prologue but was so impressed that he eventually gave him the lead. "I'm still reeling from it, and it's certainly the biggest break of my film career,
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- Jason Solomons
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Vagabond Players' Brighton Beach Memoirs Cancelled; Speed-the-plow to Replace, Runs 4/16 Thru 5/16
2 November 2009 7:51 PM, PST
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Brighton Beach Memoirs is being pulled from the Vagabond Players current season. Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet, directed by Steve Goldklang will be its replacement. Performances will run from April 16, 2010 until May 16, 2010.
David Mamet's comedy is a raw, funny and ruthless behind-the-scenes dissection of Hollywood --- how deals are cut and how movies get made. A phenomenal success in New York, Speed-the-Plow garnered three Tony Award nominations including Best Play.
Auditions will be held at Vagabond Theatre, 806 South Broadway in Fells Point, on Thursday, November 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 21 at 1:30 pm. Non-Equity actors only, please.
Two highly experienced male actors (30's - 40's) are needed for the roles of Bobby Gould and Charlie Fox (Hollywood producers). The role of Karen is already cast.
Rehearsals will begin in late February 2010.
Please contact Steve Goldklang (Director) at steve.goldklang@gmail.com or (410) 435-7697 to schedule audition time.
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Sony Picture Classics Embraces Mother and Child
2 November 2009 1:18 PM, PST
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New York, NY (November 1, 2009)- Sony Pictures Classics announces its acquisition of United States’ rights to Rodrigo García’s Mother And Child from Wme Global. The film debuted at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival as a Gala Presentation, where it was actively pursued by several Us distributors.
Mother And Child is the moving tale about the choices we make, the chances we miss, the opportunities we seize and the power of the unbreakable bond between a mother and her child.
The film was written and directed by Rodrigo García (Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her and Nine Lives) and produced by Lisa Maria Falcone through her Everest Entertainment and Julie Lynn via her Mockingbird Pictures. The films’ director of photography is Xavier Grobet (City Of Ember, The Woodsman, Nacho Libre,) Steven Weisberg edited (Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Permanent Midnight), with music by Ed Shearmur (Wings Of The Dove,
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This week on stage: 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Finian's Rainbow'
30 October 2009 11:00 AM, PDT
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This week saw the opening of two new Broadway productions, both revivals: The Neil Simon Plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs, a comedy-drama starring former Roseanne star Laurie Metcalf (left), which I described as "a fine revival, easily the best show of a young Broadway season," and the musical Finian's Rainbow, which Tanner Stransky called "an odd, farcical muscial" that is "well cast and smartly performed."
Still hunting for something to see on stage? Check out the EW.com Stage hub for up-to-date news and reviews; or consult this handy guide below, which includes links to all of our stage reviews of current shows.
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- Thom Geier
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Scarlett Johansson to Make Broadway Debut
27 October 2009 6:16 AM, PDT
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Scarlett Johansson is the latest actress to make her Broadway debut. The 24-year old leading lady will be starring in the stage revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge.
According to Variety, Scarlett will star opposite Liev Schreiber, who has done several Broadway productions. As you remember, Schreiber won a Tony Award for his performance in the 2005 revival of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross. Not a bad person for Scarlett to co-star with for her first time!
The show will run for 14 weeks beginning in December for previews, then making its formal
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