Word: gamier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mamet's fictive world was distinctive from the get-go. His plays, beginning with the 1974 Sexual Perversity in Chicago, wrapped Pinteresque menace in comically precise diction, like a gamier Damon Runyon. It was Jewish guys talking like Italian guys about life, death and, always, a poignant memory of the perfect woman, long ago or never. ("Bobby," says the dying cop in Homicide, "you remember that girl that time?") But at 50, Mamet has other concerns. The overtly serious work tends to be about Jewishness (in his play The Old Neighborhood and novel The Old Religion); the nastily comic, about...
...critically praised film (Oliver Stone is a producer). Steinem and Guccione's beef--part of a growing backlash that may end up denying the film its expected handful of Oscar nominations--is that the movie, in its efforts to plump up Flynt as a First Amendment hero, sanitizes the gamier aspects of his life and work as the creative force behind Hustler magazine. "Larry Flynt the Movie is even more cynical than Larry Flynt the Man," Steinem wrote in the New York Times, and the current issue of Penthouse promises to reveal "the real Larry Flynt." It includes an interview...