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DIED. LANE SMITH, 69, character actor whose work included stage, film and TV performances (including the original Broadway production of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross) but who won his greatest fame late in his career for his exacting, critically hailed portrayal of Richard Nixon in the 1989 docudrama The Final Days; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease; in Los Angeles...
...Audiences may come for the abuse, but they stay for the words. LaBute's sharp lines ride along on natural rhythm and casual wit. His pointed dialogue regularly inspires comparisons between the 42-year-old writer and two long-established masters of acerbic, dysfunctional exchanges, Harold Pinter and David Mamet. As a nod to their influence on him, LaBute has dedicated plays to both. It's the acid-tipped everydayness, both devastating and dangerously funny, that translates well, making him as popular in Europe as he is in the U.S. "He's bold, unapologetic and willing to go where others...
...assembled an army of bloggers out of some 250 of her celebrity and politician friends, Arianna Huffington last week launched her much hyped HUFFINGTONPOST.COM. Randomness rules: a cute photo from mockumentary filmmaker Christopher Guest's garden ("my first sprout of the year") follows a bitter gibe from playwright David Mamet on New York magazine drama critic John Simon, fired last week "from the post he long disgraced." But there's no way to search, and the bloggers share a cluttered home page with sundry news links. If you're not a fan, you can find company on blogs like HUFFINGTON...
...year. Let’s just say that Bobby’s pals - sounding more like Van Halen than Hanson - should stay put playing in the garage (lest their man-boy voices betray their steroid use). Joe Mantegna, having grown tired of the caustic straight talk from his David Mamet days, instead opts for the sappy rubbish of what is effectively Joan of Arcadia Redux...
...boards in London's West End can be a scary experience. And it doesn't help when a member of the audience is urging her co-star to kill her. For Julia Stiles, that unnerving moment came at the dramatic climax of the first preview show of the David Mamet play Oleanna, her London debut. She plays the student protagonist, who tenuously accuses her teacher of sexual harassment, and torments him until he snaps. As Stiles lay on the stage and her co-star, fellow Hollywood denizen Aaron Eckhart (Erin Brockovich, Paycheck) raised a chair as if to strike...