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The Rhode Island native made his debut in 1994 with a mannered, Mean Streets -style, Italian-guys-from-the-neighborhood picture called Federal Hill and followed that with a strenuously boring adaptation of David Mamet's American Buffalo (1996).
In choosing to adapt and direct The Winslow Boy , based on one of Rattigan's most tidily crafted problem pieces, Mamet points up an aspect of his own work that has increasingly dwarfed all others: the drama as a procession of archly formal negotiations.
Who'd have thought that Mamet was secretly in love with the well-carpentered, '40s and '50s drawing-room plays of the terribly English Terence Rattigan, whom the Angry Young Men of the late '50s loutishly blew off the boards--thus paving the way for Mamet's expletive-laced theater games?
Putting a David Mamet play on your Web site, thus, might be a crime.
St. Johns law professor and Sunday poet Lawrence Joseph's anthology of conversations with New York attorneys is deemed humorous but "pointless" (Rob Long, the Weekly Standard ). Reviewers say Joseph is "good at catching the way people talk" (Christopher Lehman-Haupt, the New York Times ) and his characters "are first cousins to David Mamet's or Eric Bogosian's ranters" (Philip Lopate, Esquire ). But beneath the froth the book offers little insight into the way lawyers work, Long says; it's really about "what colorful New Yorkers talk about when they're trying to be colorful."