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Article: VIDEO COFFEE IS FOR CLOSERS! A SALESMAN'S ELEGY, DAVID MAMET'S 'GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS' FINALLY ARRIVES ON DVD.(U)(Review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- November 19, 2002
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Byline: Rob Lowman Entertainment Editor
This is not a week brimming with great DVD picks. The high point is the 10-year-old ``Glengarry Glen Ross,'' based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Mamet.
Directed by James Foley, ``Glengarry'' examines the lives of salesmen in a real-estate office and includes a powerful cast to match the power of the material - Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jonathan Pryce and Alan Arkin. Of course, we've been over the salesmen territory before, and the two-disc DVD acknowledges this in a fascinating documentary called ``A.B.C. (Always Be Closing).''
Along with Foley and Mamet ...