Word: lonergans
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What makes a playwright hot? An Academy Award nomination helps. Kenneth Lonergan has been churning out plays for years ("This Is Our Youth," "The Waverly Gallery") to mounting acclaim, but it was his screenplay for the Oscar contender "You Can Count on Me" that really put him on the map. I wish I could share in the enthusiasm for Lonergan's work. But his latest play, "Lobby Hero" (at Playwrights Horizons in New York City), shows off all his strengths and weaknesses, with the latter narrowly winning out once again...
...Lonergan specializes in smart comedy-dramas of urban contemporary life, sprinkled with laughs but exploring serious moral issues, usually through the prism of a determinedly quirky central character. In "Lobby Hero," that person is Jeff (Glenn Fitzgerald), a woebegone night security guard who must decide whether to help his boss cover up the possible involvement of the boss's brother in a murder. Things get complicated when the case comes to the attention of two cops, a female rookie and her veteran partner, who are grappling with some ethical issues of their...
...dejected as the team, Rahul and I were driven back to Cambridge that night by our crack sports photographer Jonelle Lonergan. Surely, I thought, Harvard would win at Yale and regain momentum heading into the final stretch of the Ivy season. After some merriment and ill-advised emails, I slept soundly before our next trip...
...Jonelle M. Lonergan...
...moments. Watch her drive alone from an ill-advised rendezvous with her boss and see the emotions illuminate Linney's face like flickering candles - a smile, a jolt of sadness, a surge of joy. "She made a little play out of that," says the film's writer-director, Kenneth Lonergan. "Laughing and feeling guilty and laughing again...