Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanley sits lolling his tongue, shouting "Stella!" every fifteen seconds and occasionally spraying the overheated Blanche with a beer. Funny, but the humor fades long before the actors do. Not even the sudden introduction of Maggie from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as instant parodies of Mamet and Beckett tossed in like ingredients in Ubu's wild bouillabaise, can save it from ennui. Every now and then, though, Durang's original wit shines through the sledge-hammer production, as when Andreassi suddenly transforms into Brick from Cat: "What happened between Skipper and me was good...
...unlikely that he and his wife, so eager for respectability, would debate this news in the backyard, with neighbors' windows a dozen feet away. Nonetheless, in craftsmanship, poignance and lingering impact, Fences represents a major step forward for Wilson. In the decade or so since the emergence of David Mamet, the American stage has not heard so impassioned and authentic a new voice...
...ABOUT MEN. It's about women. It's about love. It's about sex. It's about commitment." Covering all major areas of interest for anyone between the ages of 10 and 100, the ad copy for About Last Night, the screen adaptation of the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago should, in theory, attract the masses into watching the romance of Danny (Rob Lowe) and Debbie (Demi Moore) flicker across the big screen...
...film's mainstream appeal. But if the only image that remains after the film is that of Moore and Lowe doing the deed everywhere from in the shower to on the carpet in front of Danny's double headphone stereo system to in a bean bag chair, you missed Mamet's point about relationships...
Sentiment scotches the wit in "About Last Night," an expansion and dilution of David Mamet's 1974 one-acter Sexual Perversity in Chicago. Written as a series of blackout scenes involving two working-class pals and the two young women they fancy, the play was rancid, funny and dead-on-target. So why would Screenwriters Tim Kazurinsky and Denise DeClue want to turn it into a Pillow Talk for the nouveau quiche set? Now the story is about a nice girl (the exemplary Demi Moore) and a pretty guy (Rob Lowe) who triumph over their busybody buddies (Elizabeth Perkins...