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David Mamet has created some compelling fictions in his time--about small-time crooks (American Buffalo), real-estate hustlers (Glengarry Glen Ross), conniving Hollywood producers (Speed-the-Plow). In The Old Neighborhood, which just opened on Broadway, he has turned inward. In three brief, tenuously related sketches, we watch as...
Mamet's clipped, macho, Ping-Pong dialogue still has a good deal of satiric punch. ("How's Laurie?" "Fine." "Yeah, but how is she, though?") Scott Zigler has directed with haunting spareness. And the acting is top-notch, particularly Patti LuPone, feisty and funny as Jolly. But raiding the memory...
Blues Traveler also contribute a totally unoriginal, yet infinitely pleasing tune. Their gift to the album is the plainly titled song, "Christmas." If you've heard one Blues Traveler song, you've pretty much heard them all. Nonetheless, much like with the Smashing Pumpkins song, The magic of "Christmas" lies...
So when the world's scariest banker appeared before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, he was positively jolly. "Provided the decline in financial markets does not cumulate," he said, "it is quite conceivable that a few years hence we will look back at this episode, as we now look back...
The lobby of the Chateau Marmont, a venerable Hollywood hotel located on the grungy end of the Sunset Strip, is one of Los Angeles' prime celebrity loci. It's a place where young male movie stars skulk about on bright, hot days in dark leather jackets and knit O.J. caps...