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Article: THINGS CHANGE FOR MAMET
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 9, 1988
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"Why do Americans love crooks and con men and lowlifes? Because
we get used to seeing them in office," says film maker David Mamet,
deadpan-frisky. "Things Change," Mamet's new film due Oct. 21, is a
comedy in which low-level mobster Joe Mantegna takes shoemaker Don
Ameche to Lake Tahoe and learns a few things. It's played out
against a landscape rich in venality. Film maker Mamet? Mamet's new
film? These are terms the media are getting used to, after two
decades of referring to Mamet almost exclusively as a playwright
whose lapidary way with street talk tapped dark American currents
and returned language's magic to the theater. But while there's no
shortage of talk that falls upon the ...