Recommended reading - Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play (1983):

Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play

By David Mamet.

Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984.

Published by Grove Press.

First published 1983.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0802130917

ISBN-13: 978-0802130914

Description:

Comic Drama Characters: 7 males.

2 interior sets.

“Who needs caffeine when you’ve got Glengarry Glen Ross? … David Mamet’s play about a dog-eat-dog real estate office in Chicago feels like having espresso pumped directly into your bloodstream…. Mr. Mamet hears American scheming with an exactitude and delight still surpassed by any other dramatist.” – New York Times.

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the New York Drama Critic’s Circle Award for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best American Play and the Drama Desk and Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play, Glengarry Glen Ross is one of the most celebrated and widely performed plays of recent years. It is a scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land onto reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here, Mamet is at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough people who cajole, connive, wheel and deal for a piece of the action an existence where closing a sale can mean a brand-new Cadillac, but losing one can mean losing it everything.

“Wonderfully funny … a play to see, remember and cherish.” – New York Post.

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by Olivia Belli,

was released on October 1, 2021.

On this day in movie history - Old Henry (2021):

Old Henry

directed and written by Potsy Ponciroli,

was released in the United States on October 1, 2021.
Music by Jordan Lehning.

Cast:

Tim Blake Nelson, Scott Haze, Gavin Lewis, Trace Adkins, Stephen Dorff, Richard Speight Jr., Max Arciniega, Brad Carter, Kent Shelton.

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Keepers of the Magic

documentary directed and written by Vic Sarin,

was released at the Vancouver International Film Festival in Canada in October, 2016.
Exact release date unknown.
Music by Justin R. Durban.

Cast:

Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro, Gordon Willis, César Charlone, Sam Mendes, George Miller, Philippe Rousselot, Bruno Delbonnel, John Boorman.

On this day in music history - Someone Like Me, by Sherry Finzer (2011):

The album Someone Like Me,

by Sherry Finzer,

was released on October 1, 2011.

On this day in movie history - Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003):

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documentary directed and written by Charles Burnett,

part 4 of the documentary series The Blues,

produced by Martin Scorsese,

was released in the United States on October 1, 2003.
Additional music by Stephen James Taylor.

Cast:

Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee Jr., Carl Lumbly, Ivy Cassel, Frances Horton White, Susan McWilliams, Tommie Tc Carter, Goodman. Wille, Colleen White, Vasti Jackson, Nathaniel Lee Sr., Ted Davis, Ilona W. Wilkes, Jay R. Unger, Big Bill Broonzy, Sam Chatmon, Elizabeth Cotton, Ida Cox, Gary Davis, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin Hopkins, Son House, Mississippi John Hurt, Brownie McGhee, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sonny Terry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson.