Word: rabe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sean Keay, a cook at Ambrose, a restaurant on Huntington Street in Boston, heaped spoonfuls of orrechiete with broccoli rabe and tomato onto the waiting plates...
Anthony Drazen's Hurlyburly is not another disillusioned vision of Hollywood, nor a freakshow of selfish misogynistic jerks, nor just an ensemble performance showcase. Hollywood's output is its own best indictment, and playwright David Rabe, who adapted his play for this screen version, intended more than just to show what hateful souls guys or these guys can be when being just one of themselves...
...most valuable aspect of the movie is the ontological crisis casting director Eddie (Sean Penn) undergoes. One could argue that you don't need a screen version of this play to figure this out, but really this movie can be seen as another attempt at a definitive stage version: Rabe strongly disagreed with Mike Nicholas' 1984 Broadway version, revised the play after directing it himself in 1988 and now finally takes another crack at it with this screen adaptation of beautiful downtown 1998. Many of Rabe's revisions heightened the themes of destiny and accident (e.g engineered or semi-engineered...
...sued for $100 million, accusing Grey of, among much else, luring writers away from Larry Sanders to create shows for Grey's TV studio. Grey denies the allegations, and Shandling won't comment. Otherwise, he has a part in Hurlyburly, a just wrapped film based on the David Rabe play, and he is developing a movie script about an alien who visits earth, a project that has been in the works for years. So his career seems uncertain. But who cares? Shandling's show was better than 99% of everything that's ever been on TV. That should be enough...
Overall the production was excellent: the acting, in particular, did justice to a difficult and powerful play. Audience members leave feeling disturbed and shaken--clearly Rabe's intention...