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Article: DAVID MAMET THE DRAW FOR TWO `WINSLOW BOY' ACTORS.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- May 8, 1999
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The idea of acerbic modern playwright David Mamet directing a genteel English set piece based on Terence Rattigan's play ``The Winslow Boy'' has raised a few eyebrows.
After all, this is a guy whose machine-gun syntax and rough-hewn morality pieces - ``Sexual Perversity in Chicago,'' ``American Buffalo,'' ``Glengarry Glen Ross,'' ``Oleanna'' - continually push buttons. They hardly seem like credentials that invite rewriting an intimate family drama of manners previously been filmed twice for television and once for the big screen.
The 1948 movie, directed by Anthony Asquith, opened up the play, while Mamet's film, which stars Nigel Hawthorne, Rebecca ...