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Variety reports that Disney will be remaking The Diary of Anne Frank, with David Mamet writing and directing. The new screenplay will be based both on Frank's original diary and the play by Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich. While this news makes us a bit uneasy (do we really need another version?) Mamet's remake of The Winslow Boy was unexpectedly riveting, and his Jewish-themed Homicide threw some sparks too.

Evanston native Jeremy Piven has left the hit Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Speed The Plow" due to high levels of mercury. Yep, lots of mercury all in his body. Piven's exit does not come without skepticsm, specifically from Mamet himself: "I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury. So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."

A movie we saw at last year's Chicago International Film Festival has a return engagement at the Midwest Independent Film Festival this Tuesday, and it's got our seal of approval. Home of the Giants was one of our surprise favorites last year, partially because going in we weren't expecting much from a high school crime thriller starring Haley Joel Osment. But we were impressed:

He might have come of age in Hollywood and lived most of his life in Connecticut, but now that he's passed away people are also remembering the time Paul Newman spent in Chicago. The Color of Money, Martin Scorsese's followup to The Hustler, used various locations around town, including Chris’s Billiards at 4637 N. Milwaukee, O’Brien’s Steakhouse at 1528 N. Wells and even The Gingerman in Wrigleyville (click here for more). It gave Newman his only acting Oscar - and while he was in town shooting that movie, he was awarded an honorary Oscar, which he accepted via satellite.

Sixty years ago today, David Mamet was born, and we get a kick imagining the first word out of his mouth once he acquired the ability to speak being "fuck." To be fair, anyone who watches The Unit on CBS 2 Tuesday nights knows that Mamet doesn't need to swear to get his dialogue across. But sometimes it's just funner. In honor of Mamet's birthday we look back at one of his classic scenes:...

Labeling young, successful artists as The Next [insert name of popular artist] is as common a practice as it is unfair. Few up-and-coming writers, directors or actors mind the attention and praise, but many hope to succeed on their own terms. Theatre Seven of Chicago’s Is Chicago, which presents Marisa Wegrzyn’s latest play alongside one of David Mamet’s earliest and most talked about scripts, prompts two reactions. It takes some chutzpah to invite comparisons to...

We here at Chicagoist want to give the Harold Washington Library a shout-out for booking some really great authors. Last week it was David Mamet; this week, partnering with Nextbook is none other than E.L. Doctorow.

What the ... fuck … what the fuck are you doing? Doing? What the fuck am I doing? I’m writing a post. A post. A post on … Mamet. The playwright. And author. He’s an author too. A playwright and an author. An author, yes. I see. He grew up … fuck … wait ... he grew up here. He wrote that play about selling real estate. He’s speaking at Harold Washington Library. I see...

If you’re willing to hit the road, Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival has some gems worth seeing. This year’s festival at the Virginia Theater in stately Champaign, IL runs from April 26th through the 30th. Though all the festival passes are sold out, you can still purchase tickets to individual screenings of some of Ebert’s favorite films including My Fair Lady and the criminally ignored David Mamet film Spartan as well as recent fare like...

It’s just an address—2851 North Halsted—that a few Lakeview condo owners will soon call home. The post office, utility companies, and most of Chicago are fairly indifferent to the new construction and what it displaced. But dedicated theatergoers and Chicago history buffs will need a moment to compose themselves as the wrecking ball meets the building once home to the Steppenwolf Theatre, the Organic Touchstone, and the St. Nicholas Players (the launching pad for some kid named David Mamet). Steppenwolf has moved on and current tenant ComedySportz will transfer to nifty new facilities, but that doesn’t diminish the spiritual importance of this scruffy Lakeview space.

The Goodman Theatre is welcoming David Mamet back home, throwing a party to celebrate the native son, his prolific career and versatile success. Mamet’s best known as the writer of such honest, bruising work as Glengarry Glen Ross, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo, where characters fight a soul-crushing world and deliver rapid-fire dialogue, spouting salty terms like f&*#^ng c#^>$*{(~#s. But the Pulitzer Prize winner has also written clever nostalgic s#’% like The Old...

Since AMC Theaters show movies such as Herbie: Fully Loaded and The Perfect Man, you’d think they’d book just about anything. Yet the same chain that has no concerns over movies featuring anthropomorphized automobiles and daughters pimping out their moms won’t be showing The Aristocrats, a documentary about one of stand-up comedy’s oldest jokes. Why? Because The Aristocrats features more heinous vulgarity than a Chicagoist staff meeting.

The Goodman Theatre (that's r-e 'cause they're fancy) has announced their 2005-6 season. In the Albert will be the musical Purlie, based on the play Purlie Victorious by the late Ossie Davis; Shakespeare's Pericles directed by Mary Zimmerman; 2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Clean House; and The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, from Regina Taylor, the director of last year's sensation Crowns. In the Owen, it's Stephen Lang's one-man show Beyond Glory and Crumbs from the...

Today's New York Times has a piece on Chicago's "emerging fashion scene," interviewing boutique owners and fashionistas about the trends and the "self-doubt that has plagued Chicagoans for generations." Aw, thanks.