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...Lawande, Susar, S. Lee, Sylvia S. Lee, Melissa G. Liazos, Kate M. Mansfield, Ana Markovic, Rotonya S. McCants, Jennifer L. Miksis, Margery I. Miller, Christine A. Murtha, Harvetta E. Nero, Teresa Y. Ou, Neelima Pania, Miwa M. Powell, Olivia A. Radin, Kate L. Roiter, Patricia W. Seo, Lamonica Shelton, Farah Stockman, Storm Taliaferrow, Abim Thomas, Valencia D. Thomas, Lindsay H. Tomenson, Virginia J. Triant, Amy M. Tully, Sarah E. Tuttleton and Elizabeth A. Zimmerman...
...second act, we follow Shooter back to his space: a pool hall, where he and his surrogatte father, Willie (James L. Shelton), strike at the core of their own history until they are interrupted by the entrance of Deedee (Andrea N. Moore), the woman Shooter met earlier in the laundromat...
...balance to their sexual tension is provided by the stablizing influences of Bonnie James and James L. Shelton as Alberta and Willie. Though the two never meet, they share their wisdom, gained through years of experience, with the impulsive Deedee and Shooter. Each has a secret whose tension adds depth to the pure sexual energy of Norman's script, and brings each act to a dramtic conclusion...
...assured, carefully crafted work, but also something of a disappointment. The ricocheting dialogue verges on self-parody, and it doesn't have the realistic underpinnings (or the humor) of American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross. No one can blame the fine cast-Ed Begley Jr., Felicity Huffman and young Shelton Dane-whom Mamet has directed. They help locate the fierce humanity inside this cryptic game...
...this, perhaps, he had no choice. The man either had a genetic screw loose or was irreparably damaged by the fact that his mother (or maybe her lover) killed his revered father with a shotgun when he was 17. In telling this story, Shelton (creator as well of quite a different baseball tale, Bull Durham) had no choice either. To cop some psychological plea for Cobb, to sentimentalize him would have been impossible. You have to allow him his monstrousness, and hope that honest people will find something of their worst selves in his manic cynicism and endless misanthropy...