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...Scott) has developed a secret "process" worth billions to his company, whose chief (Ben Gazzara) is slow to give Joe credit and quick to worry about someone stealing the process. In the company Joe has an ally (Ricky Jay) and a No. 1 fan, a perkily sarcastic secretary (Rebecca Pidgeon). But Joe is tempted to confide in Jimmy Dell (Steve Martin), a mysterious fellow with a wise warning: "Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you. Because most likely they are. And if they're not, you can be pleasantly surprised...
...Mamet shoot isn't solemn. "There's a great atmosphere on the set," says Martin, whom Mamet wanted to work with ever since seeing him in a 1988 revival of Waiting for Godot, and who seamlessly joins such Mamet familiars as Pidgeon (the author's wife) and Jay. "You can make a great movie having fun as easily as you can make a great movie having angst." Mamet loves devising practical jokes, keeping the actors loose, writing gags just for the joy of it. He's written 20 or so plays, five original screenplays he's directed, seven scripts...
...story are found in the synopsis in the press kit, not in the play itself. A Jewish man (Tony Shalhoub) comes back to his old childhood haunts and visits an old buddy (Vincent Guastaferro), his sister (Brooke Adams) and finally goes back and leaves his wife (Rebecca Pidgeon...
...Rebecca Pidgeon as D, the soon-to-be-ex-wife of Bobby, she is the most unrealistic of all the characters. She rants about gardens and masochistic mutilation, but her lines are written in such a convoluted and start-and-stop manner that she is the hardest to understand. Add to that Pidgeon's stiff and formal delivery style reminiscent of Carol in Oleanna. But ultimately she could be nothing but a direct projection of Bobby's warped view of her as the ex-wife...
...Pidgeon's songs contain echoes of the myths and legends of old Europe. "There was an old witch/ Used to live in this house," goes The Witch. "Now I'm making it mine." Pidgeon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, raised in Scotland and educated in England, and her music reflects her background. Perhaps because she and her husband have roots on different continents, several of the CD's songs deal with flying and separation. "It takes a long time to get over there," she sings on Seven Hours, co-written with Mamet. "Nearly seven hours in the air ... From...