How do we get it?
How do they get it.
Youre a fen bought-and-paid-for whore, and you think youre a ballerina cause you work with your legs?
Credit: Brigette Lacombe
Yet the bits that get the biggest laughs of the night?
Everybody says Hey, Im a maverick.
But what do they do?
Sit around like, hey, Pancho-the-dead whale.
But he must be eating it up the audience certainly is.
Would that the rest of this revival were as sharp as Mamets prescient pen.
Yet even perfect-on-paper casting can go awry.
Piven is essentially doing hisEntouragecharacter, and we cant exactly fault him for that.
The foul-mouthed, morally repugnant Ari Gold is a direct descendant of Bobby Gould.
Ari probably wouldnt exist were it not for Bobby.
(Lets hopeEntouragecreator Doug Ellin did something to thank Mamet.
If not, may we suggest sending a crumb cake?)
Moss is more of a mystery, even for avidMad Menviewers.
A Study of Decay.
But shes not selling us.
What is she planning to do hypnotize him with those jangly gold bangles shes wearing?
Seduce him in those terribly unflattering mens jeans?
Where is director Neil Pepes hand in all of this?
If anyone should know his way aroundSpeed-the-Plow, its Pepe, who runs the Mamet-cofounded Atlantic Theater Company.
