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CTV News
21-05-2025
- CTV News
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Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘Glengarry Glen Ross' Recoups Broadway Investment
Glengarry Glen Ross, the hit Broadway revival of the David Mamet play starring Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr and Bob Odenkirk, has recouped its investment, producers announced today. Financial details were not disclosed. The recoupment marks the third such announcement in recent weeks, following similar announcements for Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal , and Good Night, And Good Luck starring George Clooney. The three starry productions are among the biggest hits of Broadway's spring 2025 season. More from Deadline Levitation, Murder, Mind Flayers And Tenderness Are All In A Day's Work On 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' - Tony Watch Q&A With Louis McCartney Rebranded Western Musical 'Wanted' To Make Broadway Bow in 2026 'Good Night, And Good Luck' Starring George Clooney Recoups $9.5 Million Broadway Investment Glengarry's recoupment coincides with the production's record-breaking weekly gross at the Palace Theatre. For the week ending May 11, the revival took in $2.4M. Glengarry Glen Ross officially opened Monday, March 31 at The Palace Theatre and plays a strictly limited engagement through Saturday, June 28. Glengarry Glen Ross producers also announced that the play raised a total of $238,343 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids during its annual Red Bucket campaign, making it the first runner up for a Broadway play. The lead producer of Glengarry Glen Ross is Jeffrey Richards. The play is also produced by Rebecca Gold, Caiola Productions, Roy Furman, Patrick Myles, Jonathan Reinis, Stephanie P. McClelland, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley/Leah Lane, Oliver King, Richard Batchelder, Marlene & Gary Cohen, Cue to Cue Productions, Roger & Carin Ehrenberg, GFour Productions, Jay & Cindy Gutterman, John Gore Organization, Willette & Manny Klausner, James L. Nederlander, No Guarantees Productions, Secret Hideout, Randy Jones Toll & Steven Toll, Craig Balsam/Ken Levitan, Bunny Rabbit Productions/Cyrena Esposito, Lynne & Marvin Garelick/Howard Hoffen, Ken & Rande Greiner/Ruth & Steve Hendel, Levine Padgett Productions/Alan Shorr, Ted & Richard Liebowitz/Alexander 'Sandy' Marshall, Irene Gandy, Lloyd Tichio Productions/Michael T. Cohen & Robin Reinach, Eric Passmore/Brad Blume & Adam Zell, Susan Rose/Frederick Zollo, Patrick W. Jones, Maia Kayla Glasman, Brandon J. Schwartz, and The Shubert Organization. A full Broadway box office report will be posted later today. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About Ari Aster's 'Eddington' So Far Everything We Know About 'Nobody Wants This' Season 2 So Far List Of Hollywood & Media Layoffs From Paramount To Warner Bros Discovery To CNN & More
USA Today
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
'Glengarry Glen Ross' review: Bill Burr, Kieran Culkin ignite a red-hot revival
'Glengarry Glen Ross' review: Bill Burr, Kieran Culkin ignite a red-hot revival Show Caption Hide Caption Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg walk Oscars 2025 red carpet "A Real Pain" stars Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg walk the Oscars red carpet. The movie has two nominations. Entertain This! NEW YORK — If coffee's for closers only, then Bill Burr deserves a double espresso. The irreverent standup comic sets off fireworks in 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' an exceedingly straightforward yet savagely entertaining revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which opened March 31 at the recently restored Palace Theatre. Like many of this spring's top-dollar productions, Burr is joined by a megawatt cast that includes newly minted Oscar winner Kieran Culkin ('A Real Pain'), Bob Odenkirk ('Better Call Saul') and Michael McKean ('Laverne & Shirley'). Mamet's play premiered on Broadway in 1984 and was later adapted into a 1992 movie starring Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino and Alec Baldwin, whose oft-quoted character was added solely for the film. (So if you're waiting to hear 'third prize is you're fired,' you'll just have to settle for steak knives projected on the house curtain.) Like its big-screen counterpart, the show follows a group of weaselly real-estate agents in cutthroat pursuit of the 'premium leads' (in other words, names and phone numbers for the most lucrative potential clients). Odenkirk brings palpable despair to Shelley Levene, a washed-up salesman pleading for better leads in hopes of reversing his chronic losing streak. It's a role not dissimilar to his 'Better Call Saul' protagonist Jimmy McGill, another bungling sad sack trying to keep his moral compass from spinning amok. In interviews, the affable actor has repeatedly expressed his desire for a lighter, broader spin on 'Glengarry,' but it's Odenkirk who really grounds the comedy in its heartbreak. Making his Broadway debut, Burr is a cyclone as the fast-talking, double-dealing Dave Moss, who springs a plan to steal the leads on his unwilling accomplice, George Aaronow (McKean, drolly exasperated). The boisterous comedian lights up the stage with sly wit and brazen confidence, conveying Moss' righteous fury over being bottom of the office food chain. Culkin, meanwhile, takes on the agency's top dog Richard 'Ricky' Roma, portrayed with barking machismo onscreen by Pacino. It's a cliché, at this point, to say Culkin is up to his same old 'shtick,' after some critics griped that his 'Real Pain' performance was a mere photocopy of his petulant Roman Roy in HBO's 'Succession.' 'Glengarry' certainly won't silence the naysayers: As Roma, the live-wire actor gets to slam desks, detonate F-bombs and slather on his signature snark, all while hurling racial abuse at cool-headed office manager John Williamson (Donald Webber Jr.). He never fully taps into Roma's seductive undercurrent, as the salesman traps an unsuspecting client (John Pirruccello) while soliloquizing about the futility of life. But Culkin fares much better in the propulsive second act, as all the characters uncoil in the pressure cooker of the office, and Roma goes toe-to-toe with Burr's equally hotheaded Moss. Despite its small cast and intimate setting, the production rarely gets swallowed up by the cavernous Palace, which has typically housed splashy musicals and diva residencies. That's thanks in large part to Scott Pask's richly ornate production design, which captures the glow of a Chinese restaurant and the austerity of a musty office, down to the rusted pipes and water-stained walls. The direction by Patrick Marber ("Leopoldstadt") is entirely safe and unfussy, almost to a fault. In playing up the material for laughs, you lose some of the agony and desperation that's lurking just underneath Mamet's spiky crowd-pleaser. And with its brisk running time ‒ the first act clocks in at roughly 35 minutes ‒ you may feel somewhat cheated forking over hundreds of dollars for something that feels relatively slight. Still, you can't deny the sheer delight of watching the stars that Marber has aligned. With a dynamite cast firing on all cylinders, these 'Glengarry' leads are ultimately worth the investment. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is now playing at the Palace Theatre (160 W. 47th Street) through June 28, 2025.
Yahoo
11-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
NBA playoff picture: Anthony Edwards drops 44 points for Timberwolves to set up chaotic final weekend of regular season
Thanks to the Minnesota Timberwolves, we still have no idea what the Western Conference playoffs are going to look like, with only two games left for every team involved. Behind 44 points from Anthony Edwards, the T-Wolves blew out the Memphis Grizzlies 141-125 on Thursday to move into a tie for sixth place in the West. There are now six teams — Timberwolves, Grizzlies, Los Angeles Lakers, Denver Nuggets, Los Angeles Clippers, Golden State Warriors — within two games of each other in the standings. Each team will play two more times, on Friday and Saturday, with possible outcomes ranging from hosting a playoff series to the play-in tournament. The Timberwolves entered Thursday needing a win, otherwise they would have been left on the brink of a play-in spot. After a close first half, Edwards obliged, leading his team on a 29-7 run to open the third quarter. ANT GETS UP FOR THE PUTBACK SLAM 💥(via @NBA) — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) April 11, 2025 Notably, the Grizzlies were playing without rookie Jaylen Wells, their standout rookie who would have likely drawn the defensive assignment against Edwards. Wells is out indefinitely after breaking his wrist in a scary fall on Tuesday. Edwards got his 44 points on 13-of-19 shooting, while Julius Randle contributed 31 points, 10 rebounds and five assists. Ja Morant had 36 points and six assists for the Grizzlies. Memphis is now 3-4 since firing head coach Taylor Jenkins, the shock of the NBA season until the Denver Nuggets parted ways with Michael Malone. Thursday's result leaves the Western Conference playoffs with plenty to figure out this weekend. We know the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets will be taking the top two seeds. We know the Sacramento Kings and Dallas Mavericks will be playing each other in the lower play-in game. After that, well... 1. Oklahoma City Thunder, 66-142. Houston Rockets, 52-28 (14 games back)3. Los Angeles Lakers, 49-31 (17 GB)4. Denver Nuggets, 48-32 (18 GB)5. Los Angeles Clippers, 48-32 (18 GB)6. Golden State Warriors, 47-33 (19 GB)7. Memphis Grizzlies, 47-33 (19 GB)8. Minnesota Timberwolves, 47-33 (19 GB)9. Sacramento Kings, 39-41 (27 GB)10. Dallas Mavericks, 38-42 (28 GB) You know the scene in "Glengarry, Glen Ross" where Alec Baldwin tells the salesmen that first place gets a Cadillac El Dorado, second place gets a set of steak knives and third place gets fired? We're basically there for the six West teams with something to play for. The top two teams get to host a playoff series. The middle two teams at least make the first round. And the bottom two teams will be playing each other to decide if they visit Thunder, Rockets or no one. And those six teams are the ones with LeBron James, Nikola Jokić, Kawhi Leonard, Stephen Curry, Morant and Edwards. The NBA couldn't ask for a better set-up to its final weekend. With six possible teams, the tiebreaking scenarios are too complex to break down in a prompt manner. The most important part for every team is to just win, and with their remaining schedules, that will be harder for some teams than others: Lakers: Rockets, @ BlazersNuggets: Grizzlies, @ RocketsClippers: @ Kings, @ WarriorsGrizzlies: @ Nuggets, MavericksWarriors: @ Blazers, ClippersTimberwolves: Nets, Jazz As you can see, the Timberwolves are on the bottom right now, but are the only squad playing two lottery teams to finish out the season. The Nuggets , Grizzlies and Clippers all have two games against teams who will at least make the play-in, with the Clippers' finale against the Warriors looming as a must-watch between two teams who have been on fire in the past month.
Wall Street Journal
04-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
Fans Discover an Inconvenient Truth About ‘Glengarry Glen Ross'
Nick Van Sistine, a 37-year-old salesman from Driftwood, Texas, speaks a common language with anyone in his line of work. They all quote the same 'Glengarry Glen Ross' scene. 'It's scripture,' he said. In the 1992 movie, an ace salesman tears into a group of demoralized real-estate pushers with insults and credos intended to motivate. 'A-B-C…always be closing.' 'Get them to sign on the line which is dotted.' 'The leads are weak?… You're weak!' So when Van Sistine visited New York last month to meet with clients, he was pumped to catch a live rendition of 'Glengarry' on Broadway and hear those famous lines. 'I was on the edge of my seat,' Van Sistine said later, 'waiting for that character to come out and give us the monologue, the gospel.' He never appeared. Fans of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' the movie are finding out that their favorite part isn't part of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' the play and never was. Writer David Mamet invented the scene for the screen adaptation of his 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning stage drama. By adding an alpha male played by Alec Baldwin, Mamet amped up the story's cinematic intensity—but inadvertently let down some future fans who are now expecting that guy to play the hits. The new revival, which officially opened this week at the Palace Theatre off Times Square, stars Bill Burr, Kieran Culkin, Michael McKean and Bob Odenkirk. It's one of the top-selling shows, and another example of how screen stars (now including George Clooney in 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' and Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Othello') can draw theater crowds. It's a fictional movie star that has certain people excited for 'Glengarry.' The film's credits give his name as Blake, but Baldwin's character doesn't offer it in the scene. ('F—you, that's my name.') He's been summoned 'from downtown' to whip a Chicago sales office into moving more Florida housing plots. His targets, played by Alan Arkin, Ed Harris and Jack Lemmon, get abused for seven minutes. He invokes brass balls and his watch that costs more than their cars. Everything hinges on their ability to seal deals, even office coffee— 'Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only.' Whoever sells the most units wins a Cadillac. The runner-up: a set of steak knives. 'Third prize is you're fired.' The film sputtered at the box office in 1992 but clinched a fervent following over time, thanks in large part to the quotability of the always-be-closing speech. It became pop-culture code for cutthroat scenarios in any workplace. Baldwin reprised the bit in a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch set in Santa's workshop— 'Put that cocoa down!' —and the animated movie 'Boss Baby'—'Cookies are for closers.' Before a recent Broadway preview performance, Lia Taylor of Waterloo, Ontario, overheard a fellow audience member talking about differences between the movie and play. That was news to Taylor, yet she held out some hope that the new version had been retrofitted to include the reason people other than theater buffs know 'Glengarry.' After the cast took their bows, Taylor had glowing reviews for the actors and the production, but felt the play itself hadn't quite closed the deal. 'It's like going to see the Eagles and they don't play 'Hotel California,'' she said. The play is a lean two acts, which take place before and after a robbery of the sales office. Inserting Blake would require a major overhaul of its decorated script. Mamet, known for his characters' rapid-fire dialogue, declined an interview request, staying mum on the question of whether he'd ever considered remaking his classic play to integrate his famous movie scene. The producers of the new show, who also declined to comment, made an offstage nod to the movie. Merchandise at the theater includes red mugs emblazoned with 'coffee is for closers.' They go for $25 apiece and sold out during a preview performance last week. Bartenders serve drinks in lidded to-go style coffee cups. The new play is a destination for people on business outings. At the show last week, the audience was peppered with clusters of men, many wearing puffer vests with company logos. At intermission, men's restroom lines were longer than the women's. Matt Snow, a 46-year-old sales engineering director from Mount Vernon, Ohio, sought out 'Glengarry' the movie when he got into the field in his 30s. He needed context for the references people were using to mock each other or complain about stale leads and deadbeat customers. Ahead of a sales meeting in New York, Snow found himself in a predawn group text with colleagues, led by Van Sistine, about snagging tickets for the first preview performance that night, no matter the cost—which turned out to be $600 apiece from the resale market. Before that, Snow didn't know the movie was based on a play. By intermission, his crew of three was wondering where Blake was. But they rolled with the 'new' version, drawing looks when they laughed hard at lines that felt like inside jokes for salespeople in the audience. Afterward Snow joked about getting a different show than he'd paid for. 'It's a travesty!' he said. 'They were selling coffee mugs for chrissakes.' He bought three for his sales team. Van Sistine, the Texas salesman, said there was an extra aura around the film adaptation because his father, a career salesman, had shown him the movie as an initiation when his son followed him into the profession from college. The speech Mamet wrote for the film conjures 'the adrenaline rush we go out and chase every single day,' he said. Minus that scene, the play seemed more 'cerebral,' Van Sistine added, but he still loved it. Besides he can always hear his favorite movie lines as an internal monologue when he psychs himself up to sell. 'In my head,' he said, 'I'm regularly like, 'Second place is steak knives. Second place is steak knives.'' Write to John Jurgensen at
