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...such stellar company, Co-Stars Joe Mantegna, a 1984 Tony Award winner for Glengarry, and Ron Silver, a movie and TV veteran (Silkwood, NBC's Billionaire Boys Club), might almost be an afterthought. In fact, the interaction between Mantegna as the mogul and Silver as a shameless huckster is the core of Mamet's pell-mell 88-minute play. Of all American playwrights, Mamet, 40, remains the shrewdest observer of the evil that men do unto each other in the name of buddyhood. Obsessed with the need for ethical debate, he nonetheless brings as much delight as despair...
...patients provide Margaret with the excitement which is completely missing from her own life. In an attempt to save one of them, she seeks out Mike, the loan shark who is threatening him. Mike is a slick, charming con man, played with great, seedy elan by Joe Mantegna. He shows her some of the tricks of the con man trade, and for the first time in the movie we see Margaret shed her stiff exterior and smile...
...gang there looks as if they might have drifted over after work from the Glengarry Glen Ross real estate office -- especially since Mike, their leader, is played by Joe Mantegna, who was the star salesman in Mamet's sharp, funny play about the hustling of dubious Florida property. This group, however, lives even further out on society's margin. They are peddling greedy dreams unbacked even by swampland. And obviously there is a thing or two they can teach Margaret about practical psychology...
...sold at auction in London for $39.9 million or, in real money, some 5.8 billion yen. This was the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The multimillion-dollar marvel is now a commonplace of the '80s: a Turner went for $10 million in 1984, a Mantegna for $10.4 million and a Van Gogh for $9.9 million in 1985, and a Rembrandt for $10.3 million and a Manet for $11 million in 1986. Nevertheless, this one brought in more than three times the previous record established in 1983 with the sale of the 12th century illuminated Gospels...
...bandidos. Alas, the telegram inviting them to jump down off the screen and into the dusty Mexican streets is garbled in transmission; to the trio it reads like a bid to make a profitable personal appearance. And it arrives when they need money; their studio boss (Joe Mantegna) has fired them for making an outrageous salary demand: payment in cash rather than in freebies...