David Mamet, whose 1988 Hollywood huckster play Speed-the-Plow has opened at
the Old Vic in a revival starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, has just had
a bruising run-in with the New York reviewers. Arguably the greatest and most
influential of living American dramatists, he has been confronted with the fact
that his latest theatrical venture, November - in which Nathan Lane (of The
Producers fame) plays an unpopular President seeking re-election - has, with a
few murmurs of mitigation