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Stressed at work? Shout at your boss
Jack Lemmon, playing an estate agent, confronts his boss in Glengarry Glen Ross enlarge The old adage "Don't get mad, get even" may have to be rewritten as doctors have found that getting angry with your boss can be good for your heart.
He's a star of stage and variously sized screens who's been known as much for polarizing politics, paternal peccadillos and personal-life pugnacity as for his powerhouse performances.
The Caretaker transfers to West End
The tramp Davies is offered shelter in a dilapidated London flat by two strangers who later turn out to be brothers, only to find himself embroiled in power games that are as terrifying as they are comic.
Kim Basinger To Probably Not Win Any Oscars Next Year, Then
Do you like everything that Steve Martin has ever done, and everything that Alec Baldwin has ever done, and the Oscars? You do? Then you're probably the only one.
Theatre Royal is Jonathan's only tour date
Hollywood star and two-time Tony Award winner Jonathan Pryce makes an unexpected visit to Bath next week.
Johansson, Schreiber to cross 'Bridge'
Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson will topline a Broadway revival of Arthur Miller drama "A View From the Bridge," bowing at the Cort Theater later this season.
Parody of Glengarry Glen Ross for the Harvey Awards
Posted by John Farrier in Cartoon & Comic , Video Clips on October 23, 2009 at 7:14 pm The Harvey Awards are given annually by the comic book industry.
For National Boss Day: The Five Worst Bosses In The Movies
It's National Boss Day, because apparently getting more weeks of vacation, a higher salary, and an actual office with privacy isn't enough.
Alec Baldwin to Return as Co-host of TCM's 'The Essentials'
Two-time EmmyA winner Alec Baldwin is returning for a second season as co-host of The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies .
Ladies take the lead in Fusion's 'Glengarry' production
After years of presenting talented young artists in dance, theater and music performance, Fusion Arts Academy in Cherry Hill is undertaking its first season of adult theater.
The Greatest North Walians: Greatest North Walians: Jonathan Pryce
TONIGHT Jonathan Pryce will step out on stage taking a leading part in Harold Pinter's play The Caretaker, which began its run at Liverpool's Everyman theatre last week.
As Mamet writes, so he directs - his shots get to the point, usually one we don't forget.
Designed for the perfect fool. Apparently built backwards from its final Surprise Twist, it looks until then to be a deluxe edition of a Lifetime Original, directed by the reputable James Foley , with an Oscar-winning star as a muckraking investigative reporter under a male pseudonym.
The Movie Dude: The Hurricane Pacino experience
There are a lot of actors out there who, once you stop watching them in the movie they're in, you forget about.
David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross' at Oregon Stage Works
"If the play is a war of survival, then the lines are weapons." So says Bill Langan, director of Oregon Stage Works' upcoming production of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross." Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for drama, "Glengarry" is known for dialog that snaps and growls and themes that illuminate the darker corners of the American psyche.
I have, at times, jokingly admonished friends with a quick, "Put ... that coffee ... down," channeling Alec Baldwin's irate salesman in "Glengarry Glen Ross." Or attempted to intimidate with Clint Eastwood's classic "Do you feel lucky ... punk?" from "Dirty Harry." In my younger days, I took inspiration from Sean Penn's archetype stoner Jeff ...
Artist: Alda, Alan Alan Alda, fresh off his guest stint on 30 Rock , serves as host of the PBS series The Human Spark, which is set to debut Nov.
Pop culture column: Strange bedfellows
Here's two things I never thought I'd hear together - David Mamet and Disney. Mamet, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Glengarry Glen Ross," has a reputation for writing plays and films that are controversial and full of some pretty coarse dialogue.
Mamet to write Anne Frank movie
Playwright David Mamet is to write a film about Holocaust victim Anne Frank, Walt Disney has announced.
Portuguese Actor Playing Joseph In Biblical Movie
Portuguese actor Diogo Morgado has been cast as Joseph in "Mary, Mother of Christ," an action drama about the biblical journey of young Mary and Joseph during the terrible reign of Herod the Great.
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