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Mamet with manners The writer-director has two new projects ready to surprise people who thought they knew him - a film that's a period piece, and a play with no men.
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On a recent morning, David Mamet sipped his coffee, quoted the
last stanza of a Rudyard Kipling ode to honor and heroism, and, in
speaking about his latest film, "The Winslow Boy," extolled such
Edwardian virtues as "gentility, honor, and accountability." It
seemed an incongruous moment: such qualities are rare in the rakes
and rogues who usually inhabit Mamet's films and plays, including the
Pulitzer Prize-winning "Glengarry Glen Ross."
In a career spanning three decades as an actor, playwright,
screenwriter , and director, Mamet is best known for creating
characters propelled by back-alley ...
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Lavrenti Beria executed: December 23rd, 1953.(Months Past)(Biography)
Magazine article from: History Today
; LAVRENTI PAVLOVICH Beria was a Georgian, like Stalin, who called him 'my Himmler...succeeded Yezhov, who was shot on Stalin's orders, apparently at Beria's prompting. Beria, who went on to run the Soviet network of slave-labour camps...
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Putin and Georgia Officials Intensify Rhetoric in Dispute; President Calls Russians' Arrests 'State Terrorism'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...dictator Joseph Stalin's secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, who, like Stalin, was a Georgian known for bloodthirsty...on the crisis. "It is a sign of the legacy of Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria's policy." On Thursday, Russia recalled its...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...psychologist, 1886; Wilfred Owen, poet, 1893; Betty Compson (Eleanor Luicime Compson), actress, 1897; Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria, chief of the Russian secret police, 1899; Friederich Robert Donat, actor, 1905. Deaths: St Edward the...
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