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(0)David Mamet
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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For the past thirty years, David Mamet has been a controversial and defining force in theater and film, championing the most cherished liberal values along the way. His characters have explored the ethics of the business world, embodied the struggles of the oppressed, and faced the flaws of the capitalist system. But in recent years Mamet has had a change of heart. He realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
"Savagery appeased can only grow. Once you give in to it, it must escalate, like a fire searching for air."
The man who won the Pulitzer Prize for GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, who wrote the classic films THE VERDICT and WAG THE DOG sounds his alarm about the Visigoths at our gates.
In RECESSIONAL he calls out, skewers, mocks, and, most importantly, dissects the virus of conformity
...7) Chicago
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"A big-shouldered, big-trouble thriller set in mobbed-up 1920s Chicago--a city where some people knew too much, and where everyone should have known better--by the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Untouchables and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Glengarry Glen Ross. Mike Hodge--veteran of the Great War, big shot of the Chicago Tribune, medium fry--probably shouldn't have fallen in love with Annie Walsh. Then, again, maybe the man who killed...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of the Free Lunch"--
Exposing how oppressive cultural codes-encapsulated in buzzwords such as inclusion, diversity, social justice, appropriation-are constricting the vibrant intellectual life of the world's freest country, a renowned author and playwright examines how politics and cultural attitudes about rebellion have shifted in the U.S. throughout history.
9) Theatre
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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Calls for no less than the death of the director and the end to acting theory, arguing that either actors are good or they are non-actors, and that good actors work best without the interference of a director.
15) The edge
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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane chrashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
16) American buffalo
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"For down-and-out junk dealer Don, life goes form unlucky to unvbearable when he discovers that the rare buffalo head nickel he just sold for $90 is worth ten times as much! Refusing to let himself be out-swindled, Don enlists the help of a young protaegae in a scheme to steal the coin back. But their plans are suddenly altered by the intrusion of Teach, a disturbingly aggressive would-be thief who badgers Don into cutting him in on the heist-- a...
17) The verdict
Publisher
CBS/Fox Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Alcoholic lawyer finds a chance to redeem himself by accepting an unwinnable case.
18) About last night
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English
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After drinks at a favorite Chicago hang-out, Danny Martin and Debbie Sullivan head to Danny's place to indulge in the single's quest--the one-night-stand. Danny and Debbie wind up living together and amidst the daily drudge of domestic life, they begin to realize that making love is easy, saying "I love you" more difficult, and being in love the hardest of all.
19) House of games
Publisher
Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A woman psychiatrist, trying to help a patient whose life has been threatened, is drawn into the dangerous but provocative underworld of a smooth-talking con man.
