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...getting beaten up. Five students--all of whom act in his new film about ultimate fighting, Redbelt--took turns pummeling me under the instruction of Mamet's trainer, Renato Magno, who told me later I'd need five years before I could compete with the author of Glengarry Glen Ross. "He trains two or three times a week. If he misses a session, he likes to triple the time," Magno added. "He likes gambling, knives and guns. He drove a taxi." Never had someone used so many words to tell me I'm a wuss...
...most active contributor to the novel and its ready diva. Among other things, Pabruce introduced a non-lethal drug called strychnine that would become a “code word for global warming”. When another user wrote his theatrical voice into the novel, however, this Ms. Ross figure deleted all his edits, nearly scuttling the nascent work. Days later, he returned, chastened, as ‘Lewis Oswald...
...This is an especially pressing concern, as “Sweeney Todd” takes great pleasure in manipulating its audience’s desire to know what happens next. In the second act, everything stops for nearly ten, excruciatingly funny minutes as Mrs. Lovett and the Beadle (Evan Ross of the Boston Conservatory), sing ballads and traditional songs at a harmonium. And for every audacious plot twist (and there are dozens), there is an almost-revelation or not-quite-coincidence that dissolves at the last possible moment.These little moments of narrative sadism are not without their own kind...
...expectations. He surely has a right to reach for a new manner whenever the spirit moves him. But the LA demi-monde he's exploring (often with his shrewd observational skills fully intact) seems to cry out for the intensity of expression that made plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and movies like The Verdict sing with a sort of atonal harshness, helping them transcend the rather confined situations he prefers. Redbelt (the title refers to the highest honor available to jiu-jitsu fighters), despite its novel milieu somehow remains trapped in genre conventions. It's still basically a boxing picture...
...that Boston has so much water. The Winthrop House resident also serves as treasurer on the Winthrop House Committee. Outside of theater and house life, Jewett plays trumpet in the marching band. Not surprisingly, he also lends a hand on their prop crew. ––Ross S. Weinstein