Defamer on the poem
I missed this Defamer echo (posted yesterday) about that disgruntled making-of-Transformers poem. My fault for going to a play yesterday afternoon (Liev Schreiber in Talk Radio) instead of staying at my desk at Starbucks on Lex and 85th.
Speaking of hack directors, looks like they got one to remake Straw Dogs. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic8a667db1a35f3a07da8a575da19d399
I think Lurie is a friend of Wells’s.
How’s Liev in the role? Is Bogosian involved in the revival (i.e. updating the play to 2007 or is it still in the original period)?
Not sure what Jeff thought,but I really enjoyed ‘Talk Radio,’ mainly for Liev’s performance. The man can do anything and is really hitting his stride as one of the great American stage actors. I read somewhere about Bogosian’s involvement and I can’t remember how extensive it was…I think it’s more or less the original text. It’s a good play, not a great one, but it has a great part, which Liev nails.
Liev was amazing in last year’s B’way revival of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS; he seemed to be imitating Dan Aykroyd’s old E. Buzz Miller character from SNL, yet it worked like a charm. I have tix to TALK RADIO next month and can’t wait.