For the spring part of the 2007 – 08 season, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Michelle Kelly joined Spacey as the three characters in David Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow.

Speed-the-Plow premiered on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in a production by the Lincoln Center Theater, opening on May 3, 1988 and closing on Dec 31, 1988 after 279 performances.

The one-act play ( 45-minutes ) updates the life of character Bobby Gould, from Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow.

The play shows Bobby Gould, introduced in Mamet's 1988 play Speed-the-Plow and his time in Hell after he dies.

* 1988: Ron Silver – Speed-the-Plow as Charlie Fox

The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh will be presented in collaboration with the Druid Theatre Company, and a co-produced revival of Mamet ’ s Speed-the-Plow is currently playing on Broadway.

Her major stage debut came after she starred for Joel Schumacher ( her " Flatliners " director ) in the David Mamet play Speed-the-Plow with William Petersen at the Remains Theater in Chicago in 1992.

Arthur Kopit's play Bone-the-Fish ( later rewritten as Road to Nirvana ) was written in response to Speed-the-Plow.

** Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

Jack Kroll of Newsweek described Speed-the-Plow as " another tone poem by our nation's foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy.

The first Broadway revival of Speed-the-Plow, directed by Atlantic Theatre Company artistic director Neil Pepe, began previews at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 3, 2008, with an opening on October 23 in a limited engagement, closing on February 22, 2009.

On January 13, 2009, Macy replaced Jeremy Piven in David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow on Broadway.

Molina's stage work has included two major Royal National Theatre productions, Tennessee Williams ' The Night of the Iguana ( as Shannon ) and David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow ( as Fox ).

Piven appeared in the first Broadway revival of David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, co-starring Mad Men star Elisabeth Moss and three-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza.

In 2000 he directed Sam Shepard's True West starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and John C. Reilly and in 2008 he directed David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow, starring Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum.

Section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 provides that common assault, like battery, is triable only in the magistrates ' court in England and Wales ( unless it is linked to a more serious offence, which is triable in the Crown Court ).

His Esquisse d ' un programme ( 1984 ) is a proposal for a position at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, which he held from 1984 to his retirement in 1988.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

Exile ( 1988 video game ) | Exile is an example of a game where the developers left non-graphical data visible in the display buffer to gain additional memory space.

* 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.

The second, named Fatih Sultan Mehmet ( Bosphorus II ) Bridge, is long, and was completed in 1988 about north of the first bridge.

The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.

Another is the 1988 Koko case in which 5 ships transported 8, 000 barrels of hazardous waste from Italy to the small town of Koko in Nigeria in exchange for $ 100 monthly rent which was paid to a Nigerian for the use of his farmland.

One possible origin is Chun Shui Tang teahouse in Taichung, where Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui ( product development manager ) poured sweetened tapioca balls into the tea during a meeting in 1988.

For example, in English law the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 provides that if a copyrighted work is made by an employee in the course of that employment, the copyright is automatically owned by the employer which would be a " Work for Hire.

He is best known in the film industry for his role as Prince Humperdinck in Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride, though he also has had supporting parts in some other successful films such as the original Child's Play ( 1988 ).

The area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo was populated as early as 80, 000 years ago, as shown by the 1988 discovery of the Semliki harpoon at Katanda, one of the oldest barbed harpoons ever found, and which is believed to have been used to catch giant river catfish.

Engelbart is now Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is now Executive Director.

* 1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.

* 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.

* 1988 – The Michael Hughes Bridge in Sligo, Ireland is officially opened.

* 1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

In 1988 he returned to Bloomington as " College of Arts and Sciences Professor " in both cognitive science and computer science, and also was appointed adjunct professor of history and philosophy of science, philosophy, comparative literature, and psychology, but he states that his involvement with most of these departments is nominal.

That is, the inverse transform is the same as the forward transform with the real and imaginary parts swapped for both input and output, up to a normalization ( Duhamel et al., 1988 ).

Its flexible design enabled it to play games which used display list manipulation to generate a pseudo 3D appearance such as Ballblazer ( 1987 ) and F-18 Hornet ( 1988 ).

* Greek ( opera ) ( 1988 ), by Mark-Antony Turnage, after Steven Berkoff's play

Bacon has been married to actress Kyra Sedgwick since September 4, 1988 ; they met on the set of the PBS version of Lanford Wilson's play Lemon Sky.

Dalglish did not play in Liverpool's 1988 – 89 campaign, and he made his final league appearance on 5 May 1990 as a substitute against Derby.

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

The character of Jesus Quintana was inspired, in part, by a performance the Coens had seen John Turturro give in 1988 at the Public Theater in a play called Mi Puta Vida in which he played a pederast-type character, " so we thought, let's make Turturro a pederast.

In 1988, Charlton Heston starred and directed in a made-for-television film that followed Bolt's original play almost verbatim, restoring for example the commentaries of " the common man ".

* 1988: In David Henry Hwang's play M. Butterfly, the story of a French diplomat and a Chinese opera singer, Butterfly is denounced as a western stereotype of a timid, submissive Asian.

* 1993: David Cronenberg directed a film adaptation of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play.

On January 6, 1988, Dr. Antonio Senat, Washington's personal physician, denied " unfounded speculations " that Washington had cocaine in his system at the time of his death, or that foul play was involved.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

Joe Perrone went on to play Gino Rossini in the popular Australian television serial " Neighbours " in 1987 ; guest starred in the Australian sit-com " Acropolis Now " in 1992, and featured in the 1988 US motion picture " Phantom of the Ritz ".

*( 1988 ) Die Heimkehr des Enoch J. Jones ; English translation: The Return of Enoch J. Jones ; play

Edwards cast him again to play the real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in Sunset ( 1988 ).

On December 31, 1988, Lemieux became the only player in history to score a goal in all five possible game situations in the same game ( even strength, shorthanded, penalty shot, power play, and empty net ).

The franchise began play during the 1988 – 89 NBA season as the Charlotte Hornets, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, where they were located for fourteen seasons.

On April 5, 1987, NBA Commissioner David Stern called Shinn to tell him that his group had been awarded the 24th franchise of the NBA, to begin play in 1988.

Prior to the 1988 – 89 season, the Pistons moved to Auburn Hills to play at The Palace of Auburn Hills.

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

In 1988, consequently, an alternative release was developed to serve as Super Mario Bros. 2 for western players ( and later released in Japan as Super Mario USA ); this version would play a key role in shaping Luigi's current appearance.

From there he went on to play for the Canadian Olympic Team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Just before the beginnings of the fall of the Soviet Union, after a concert in Tallinn, Estonia, on November 15, 1988, Norman and his brother Charles, and the Finnish band Q-Stone were scheduled to play a show in Leningrad.

When the product was launched in 1988, its original name was Quattro ( the Italian word for " four ", a play on being one step ahead of " 1-2-3 ").

He departed again in 1988 over creative differences relating to the band's continued pursuit of major commercial success and mainstream radio play.