Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Satirical Subversive series at the ART which brought us such satirists as Mort Sahl and Paul Zaloom. Unfortunately, as a satirist, Bogosian is only fair. He relies too heavily on stereotypes, especially in a bit about a high-powered, slimy executive of a type that is already familiar from Mamet and movies like Wall Street. In another somewhat ineffective monologue, Bogosian creates a Spinal Tap-like over-the-hill rocker, and the jokes seem stale and repetitive...
SPEED-THE-PLOW. Playwright turned Filmmaker David Mamet returns to Broadway and skewers Hollywood. Singer Madonna stars as a temp secretary with big plans...
SPEED-THE-PLOW. Playwright turned Filmmaker David Mamet returns to Broadway and skewers Hollywood. Singer Madonna stars as a temp secretary with big plans...
...cannot decide whether the laughable-sounding book under consideration is insight or eyewash, so it is hard to say whether Speed-the-Plow is an outcry against Hollywood or a cynical apologia from a man who, in real life, is finishing one Hollywood film and about to start another. Mamet has said that by being oblique, even obscure, he forces spectators to think. At least some playgoers, however, yearn for a writer straightforward enough to have the courage of his own convictions...
Rock Singer Madonna makes a controversial Broadway debut in Playwright David Mamet' s ferocious comedy hit Speed- the- Plow...