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David Mamet
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"A professional skeptic and an inspired word jockey, David Mamet can lay claim to the same connoisseurship of human folly as H. L. Mencken, who once observed that, in America, only the man who was born with a petrified diaphragm can fail to laugh himself to sleep every night. Mamet’s new Oval Office satire, November (well directed by Joe Mantello, at the Ethel Barrymore), is a hilarious demonstration of the fact that we live in an age of equality: all classes are criminal.
"As the curtain rises on November, the President of the United States, Charles H. P. Smith (Nathan Lane), who is on the eve of losing his bid for a second term (his numbers are lower than Gandhi’s cholesterol)...For farcical purposes, Mamet is quick to add financial desperation to Smith’s woes. In the last days of his election campaign, Smith has no money for TV ads. He has no money for a Presidential library or to guarantee his own future; even his security guards have gone walkabout.
"At once a barbarian, a bully, and an idiot (I always felt that I’d do something memorable—I just assumed it’d be getting impeached, he says), Smith brings oxygen to Mamet’s rhetorical brilliance—so much that Mamet seems almost giddy with pleasure as he makes his cretinous creation squirm...
"Broadway comedy is generally a testament to Twain’s maxim that honesty is the best of all the lost arts. On the boulevard, laughter is meant to distract, not galvanize, to enchant, not disenchant. Into this weak hand, David Mamet has dealt an ace."—John Lahr, The New Yorker
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