Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CASUALTIES OF WAR Directed by Brian De Palma; Screenplay by David Rabe...
...script, by playwright David Rabe (Streamers, Hurlyburly), introduces some complexities into this schematic story. Eriksson owes his life to Meserve's military skills. The sergeant, who is not presented as a psychopath, and the other men are in a furor because a buddy has been killed in an ambush at a supposedly pacified village. Eriksson has an interesting speech in which he argues that the standard rationale for bad wartime behavior ("We might at any second be blown away") is exactly wrong. It is precisely because soldiers live inches from death that they should be "extra careful about what...
...David Rabe...
Hurlyburly is David Rabe's wild, twisted and sometimes horrifying look at life in Hollywood. The play centers around tow fast-talking casting director roommates and their two best friends as they try to come to terms with their own male-bonding relationships and their interactions with the various women in their lives. Involving three women and four men, Hurlyburly promises to be an interesting look at social roles, humor and human interactions...
Hurlyburly is David Rabe's wild, twisted and sometimes horrifying look at life in Hollywood. The play centers around tow fast-talking casting director-roommates and their two best friends as they try to come to terms with their own male-bonding relationships and their interactions with the various women in their lives. Involving three women and four men, Hurlyburly promises to be an interesting look at social roles, humor and human interactions...