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WRITER: DAVID MAMET...
...Court Justice Clarence Thomas to the members of the raging rap group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted to do the film more than...
...play here, but there's certainly a playwright." Just such tempered optimism is being triggered right now by two emotionally intense, fiercely funny and sadly flawed works by dramatists in their early 30s. One writer -- Howard Korder -- has the slam-bang dialogue and macho preoccupations of a David Mamet in training. The other -- Jon Robin Baitz -- can infuse domestic drama with the burdens of history in the fashion of a budding Arthur Miller. But neither can yet write two cumulative and cohesive acts. In each of their current offerings, one act sings, the other doesn...
...poetic on stage," Mamet once said, "forget it." The Leverett House production of The Woods lacks exactly this crucial element of poetry...
This production obscures Mamet's brilliance because it focusses its attention on realism. The weakness of the Scully production is that Lithgow and Todd are allowed to forget they are engaged in theatre...