His dialog in Glengarry Glen Ross and Wag the Dog positively burns both with intensity and irony.

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Who knew that a crew of pathetic, small-time real estate salesman (that's Glengarry Glen Ross) could be so heart-wrenching?

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As in his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo, he chronicles the habits of a nasty breed of bottom feeder.

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Finder's take on the sales rep's trade is as cynical as that portrayed in the movie Tin Men or in the David Mamet play Glengarry Glen Ross.

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Eighteen years after James Foley's film adaptation of David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross, " hit screens, the oft-quoted diatribe delivered by Alec Baldwin's character, Blake, still resonates.

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In Glengarry Glen Ross (ranked seventh) and Tin Men (number nine), David Mamet and Barry Levinson, respectively, discovered drama in the desperation and chicanery of salesmen on commission.

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The play "Glengarry Glen Ross, " for example, for which Mr. Mamet won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, is about a group of desperate men competing with each other in a Chicago real estate office.

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Granted, the Yankees are not a barrel of yuks, even in good times the culture of the team seems permanently trapped in the turgid middle of Alec Baldwin's "Glengarry Glen Ross" speech but humor must be welcomed amid stress.

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Who hasn't been ambitious and in search of a mentor like Wall Street's young stockbroker Bud Fox, or frustrated in a dead-end job like American Beauty's suburban ad executive Lester Burnham, or scared of being fired like the desperate real estate salesmen in Glengarry Glen Ross?

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