Word: jay
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...Reported by Jay Branegan, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Viveca Novak, Karen Tumulty and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...wrestling team's performance at Nationals brought into sharp focus one of the most irksome long-term grievances with The Crimson's sports pages. The wrestlers had a spectacular showing, with co-captain "Dustin Denunzio '99 earning Harvard's first All-American award in fifteen years, and Jay Weiss being voted Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Coach of the Year. Not only was there no reporter present at the event on March 21, but even the post-fact report in The Crimson ran only on April 2. Accounting for Spring Break, this was still an unnecessary four-day delay during which...
...this diamond-hard, ice-cold thriller, young Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) has developed a secret "process" worth billions to his company, whose chief (Ben Gazzara) is slow to give Joe credit and quick to worry about someone stealing the process. In the company Joe has an ally (Ricky Jay) and a No. 1 fan, a perkily sarcastic secretary (Rebecca Pidgeon). But Joe is tempted to confide in Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious fellow with a wise warning: "Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you. Because most likely they...
...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 man's love of the scam (the card-shark show Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, recently off-Broadway, and this spiffy new film...
...Mamet shoot isn't solemn. "There's a great atmosphere on the set," says Martin, whom Mamet wanted to work with ever since seeing him in a 1988 revival of Waiting for Godot, and who seamlessly joins such Mamet familiars as Pidgeon (the author's wife) and Jay. "You can make a great movie having fun as easily as you can make a great movie having angst." Mamet loves devising practical jokes, keeping the actors loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts...