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House of Games , the iTunes 99 Movie of the Week: "What's more fun than human nature?" Joe Mantegna's Mike snarls cynically.

The second directing effort of playwright and scenarist David Mamet, after the auspicious House of Games, is no disappointment, or only the mildest kind.

Redbelt Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alice Braga, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen and Joe Mantegna. via Chico News & Review

“Everything has a force. Embrace it or deflect it. Why oppose it?”

"Redbelt" is the 10th feature written and directed by David Mamet, and it's a pungent little number. via Theboneonline.com

“I wasn't named Ricky Jay then.”

David Mamet's recent "Redbelt" is an example of a kind of movie that needs a name. via Chicago Sun-Times

Love David Mamet . LOVE him. The repertory company -- Joe Mantegna, Ricky Jay, David Paymer. via The Morning Call

Film review by Tony Macklin "The Visitor" one of this year's best, "Redbelt" a slapdash carnival Decency is a major theme in two new movies. via Fayetteville Free Weekly

“He has a great gift from God."] Chiwetel Ejiofor and Alice Braga in a scene from David Mamet's "Redbelt.”

Well, you can't accuse David Mamet of slacking off. That " Redbelt ," his new martial arts film, hits the screen May 2, while "November," a hilarious political broadside, plays to packed houses on Broadway ... via IndieWIRE

It sounds like a great idea: David Mamet, the playwright famous for brutal dialogue and fiendish plot twists , brings his formidable brain to the usually brainless genre of martial-arts action flicks. via Newsday.com

“I decided fairly early in my jiujitsu experience that that world was fascinating because it cut across many different strata of society”

What's happening to David Mamet? First the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright announced in a March newspaper essay that he has switched political alliances and is no longer "a brain-dead liberal." Now the author ... via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Elvis Mitchell hosts writer-director David Mamet whose latest film is Redbelt . Set in Los Angeles and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Tim Allen and Joe Mantegna, the film uses the the martial art of ... via KCRW

“With a season of engaging plays ranging from delightful to chilling to thought-provoking, we hope to inspire a summer of entertainment and exploration”

Gloucester Stage Company, in its 29th season, will present five plays this summer and premiere a new play-reading series on Sunday nights. via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA

“Buffalo Bill", starring Dabney Coleman Played Anthony Bouvier on popular CBS sitcom, "Designing Women”

Tall, boisterously amiable African-American character actor with a beaming smile, prominent chin and a good sense of timing. via Hollywood.com

“Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a favorite of leadership, somebody on the move,'' Rothenberg said. "When somebody like that doesn't want to be a major player in taking on a Republican, that's a signal.”

Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 06:14:24 AM PDT I'm getting a lecture on recruitment when A, you haven't done a goddamn thing and B, we've got a [Republican] target and you're out there kissing his ass in the press? - Rahm ... via Daily Kos

“The Awakening Land") and films ("Foolin' Around”

One of the few American actors whose stage experience equals that of their film work, William H. Macy struggled for years to make others realize what mentor David Mamet knew from the very beginning, that here ... via Hollywood.com

David Mamet will receive the ShoWest Award of Excellence in Filmmaking at next week's ShoWest exhib confab for his work in independent film Mamet will next be in theaters with Sony Pictures Classics' "Redbelt," ... via Variety

“The best thing that ever happened to me was getting that job on 'Knots Landing.”

RACHEL CLINE did not look like a woman enjoying a second lease on life at the Old Town Bar in Union Square in New York one recent cold evening. via Los Angeles Times

“Frankenstein"-like story of a man transformed into a steel monster. The "Robocop: 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition”

On the best DVDs, the movie is just the beginning. Yes, top-shelf picture and sound quality are important. via Daily Herald

“It came upon me that I had misspent my life. All those years laboring over words, words, words. And for what? What difference did it make to anyone? Wh cared what I had to say? I had lost the appetite for telling.”

"It came upon me that I had misspent my life. All those years laboring over words, words, words. via WNYC-AM New York