Word: roth
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Mamet, like Philip Roth, justifies his oververbalization within the script. Ruth declares to Nick in the third act of the play: "You're so fucking corny." Writing off Nick and Ruth as corny characters may redeem many corny lines that are obviously unnatural. "We put on clothes, we can not make out what we look like...It's very lonely and we all get desperate to be warm. We have to find our lovers when it's warm...
...most powerful moments of the play-the "Get thee to a nunnery" scene with Hamlet and Ophelia (beautifully played by Stephanie Roth)-has been moved from the third act to the second, in accordance with the earliest known edition of Hamlet. One consequence of this is that Hamlet's mood swings seem more appropriate, following as they do his recent encounter with the Ghost...
...public got an inkling of the Lansky legend from the character Hyman Roth in The Godfather, Part II. Anna Strasberg, widow of Lee Strasberg, who played Roth, recalled listening in on a phone conversation her husband received shortly after the movie opened in 1974. "You did good," said the caller, who did not give his name. "Now why couldn't you have made me more sympathetic...
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...Kafkaesque novel that owes much to the author of Portnoy's Complaint. A shapely female breast finds itself metamorphosed into a best-selling novelist named Philip Roth. The bewildered Roth is condemned to a modern version of hell: an endless series of appearances on Geraldo, Oprah and Donahue...