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While Mason has centered her work in Cambridge for the last year, she spent last week in Buffalo, observing Operation Rescue rallies at clinics...
...proved too talented; even last year, he led the league in assists. But this year Gretzky has dealt with persistent neck pain from an injury, and though he's the best player on his team, he has seen his skills deteriorate. After beating the Rangers earlier this year, Buffalo Sabre Vaclav Varada said that stopping Gretzky wasn't challenging. The next time the two teams played, Ranger Todd Harvey chased Varada and punched him in the back of the head. This is a hockey player's way of saying the truth is sometimes difficult to take...
There's a moment at the very end of David Mamet's American Buffalo,just before the lights go down, when it suddenly becomes clear that for the past two hours you have done nothing but watch three men talk in a single room. The revelation, though simple, can be shocking...
When it premiered in 1975, American Buffalo(Mamet's third play and first major success) shocked audiences with its graphic depictions of life on the fringe of society and its cynical indictment of American capitalism. Just as Arthur Miller'sDeath of a Salesmanspoke to the hopes of the would-be bourgeoisie, Mamet's work speaks to the empty aspirations of America's lesser elements--its junkies and gamblers and crooks, all lost in dreams of profit and free enterprise. Of course, true to form, Mamet speaks with far more crude energy than Miller ever would...
Kellerman's actors play off of each other with such skill that it's useless to think of them as anything but an ensemble. And this is exactly what Mamet's piece calls for. American Buffalo is not so much about what happens to these characters as it is about how they interact, how they yell and fight and make up, how they desperately need each other because they have nothing else in the world. His ability to portray this sense of need, this soft underside to Mamet's otherwise brutal play, is Kellerman's greatest strength as the director...