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  Eric Bogosian - Performances - Washington Square Arts & Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bogosian supplies the words and Sharp provides the sounds in an eighty minute excursion rant/soundscape on the theme of "now." Bogosian hits on smoking, sainthood and the CIA while Sharp trips out on guitar, sax, temple bells and cyber-sound.
Bogosian's junkies, businessmen, hipsters, panhandlers and type-A personalities take you on a trip down the fast lane, the passing lane and the breakdown lane.
Bogosian's one-man show pokes fun at the excesses and absurdities of a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll.
www.washingtonsquarearts.com /performances/eric-bogosian-touring.asp   (368 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian: Art, not money, is the object   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bogosian began portraying characters in New York City's punk clubs in the '70s, before he knew what a one-man show was.
ERIC BOGOSIAN: In the mid-'80s I became somebody of interest to Hollywood, and I began to work as a screenwriter, and more recently as a TV writer.
ERIC BOGOSIAN: If you look at when my income rose to anything appreciable, around 1986, it was virtually at the same time that the market began this enormous rise, and it was just natural to put some money into stocks.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20020826a.asp   (1001 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - Armeniapedia.org
Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an Armenian-American playwright actor, novelist, and performer.
Bogosian is far less interested in what his characters have to do than in what they have to say.
This early play from Bogosian’s canon, virtually devoid of plot, dramatizes an hour from the talk show of controversial (and fictional) shock jock Barry Champlain the night before his show is to go national.
www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Eric_Bogosian   (829 words)

  
 Gadfly Online. Interview with Eric Bogosian.
Although his website claims that only.25 percent (or one in four hundred) of America’s population is familiar with his work, those of us who know Bogosian identify him as the irreverent poster-boy for attitude, the satirical stabber who manifests his wit in his writing and the actor with a full-throttle, in-your-face energy.
Like all of Bogosian’s characters, Mall’s subjects are slaves to their addictions, alone in the night looking for their next fix, whether it be sex, drugs, food, underwear models or murder.
Bogosian, noted for his performance art pieces, was one of the better known performance artists of the performance art era." And I’ll be up in heaven chewing my guts out over that one.
www.gadflyonline.com /lastweek/ericbogosian.html   (1913 words)

  
 The Mick Sinclair Archive: Eric Bogosian
Laughs are plentiful but Bogosian's knack is to build 12 or so characters into a montage – a banner of cultural identity which can provoke as much as entertain an audience.
Bogosian's act grew from a disillusionment with the straight theatre world of New York which he encountered as a drama student.
Bogosian did a show of his own on that circuit, rewarding the audience for enduring his "intellectual bullshit" with a single character portrayal at the end.
micksinclair.com /guardian/bogosian.html   (472 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mall : A Novel: Books: Eric Bogosian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bogosian (as I've said in my other review of his solo book) comes off as kind of simple, but at the end of the day, I think his ideas are complex.
Actor/playwright Eric Bogosian is a very talented artist, and I've admired his work for well over a decade.
Bogosian writes like he's hammering out a pulp fiction novel, but fails to inject even a remote semblence of decent character development in the story.
www.amazon.ca /Mall-Novel-Eric-Bogosian/dp/0684857278   (1634 words)

  
 New York State Writers Institute - Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian, nationally known for his award-winning solo performance pieces, also applies his singular talents to the writing of novels.
Bogosian's newest novel is "Wasted Beauty" (May 2005), a sprawling portrait of New York City's drug and fashion worlds and a journey into the slithering underbelly of urban life.
Bogosian's earlier novel, "Mall" (2002), is the tale of five suburbanites whose lives intersect in one violent and life-altering night- at the local mall.
www.albany.edu /writers-inst/bogosian_eric.html   (445 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian
Actor/writer Eric Bogosian was born in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Bogosian is the author of the plays Talk Radio, subUrbia and Griller, as well as three Obie Award-winning solos: Drinking In America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead.
Bogosian lives in New York City with his wife Joe Anne, whom he married in 1984, and two sons.
www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=3435   (345 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Books: Eric Bogosian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Eric Bogosian is well known for his solo performance work in the U.S. and internationally.
Bogosian proves with Wake Up and Smell the Coffee that he is one of the funniest, smartest, and angriest writers around.
Bogosian takes on pop culture, religion, families, and he does so with sarcasm that never lets up and almost never misses the mark.
www.amazon.ca /Wake-Smell-Coffee-Eric-Bogosian/dp/1559362022   (1147 words)

  
 Bogosian
Among the vivid rebels he incarnates are an artist who resolves to keep his art inside his head to prevent "the system" from commercializing it and an entire group of blue-collar guys whose wedding-eve party for a buddy turns into a merry sleigh ride to hell.
Bogosian's quote goes to the heart of what most of his show is about.
If Bogosian had introduced the gallery of figures as veteran street beggar, conceited rock star, teen gang member, stud, suburban consumer, entertainment lawyer, impoverished artist, machine-age paranoid, and so on, then each portraiture might have seemed to be little more than a detailed stereotype.
www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/ContempDrama/Bogosian.htm   (4086 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian is the author of two plays, "Talk Radio" and "subUrbia", as well as three Obie award winning solos: "Drinking In America", "Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll" and "Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead".
Bogosian's plays and solos have been staged around the world, including a long-running version of "Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll" in Buenos Aires and a tour of "Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead" in Italy.
Bogosian is currently working on a new play, "Griller" and touring his new solo "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee".
www.spitfiregrill.com /suburbia/eric.html   (240 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - Bio - Washington Square Arts & Film   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In the last twenty years, Bogosian has authored five full-length plays and created six full-length solos.
Bogosian is well-known as a film and television actor, working with some of the leading directors of our time: Robert Altman, Paul Schrader, Woody Allen and Atom Egoyan.
Under Siege II Bogosian lives in New York with his wife, director Jo Bonney, and their two children.
www.wsfilms.com /performances/bogosian.asp   (186 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian News
Eric Bogosian on moving back into ''subUrbia.'' The actor-writer tells EW's Aubry Anne D'Arminio about his revived play's relevance in 2006, how he writes, and his role on ''L&O'' You thought Pounding Nails in...
Call it the all-Bogosian season: Over the course of the next year, theatergoers can catch revivals of two of Eric Bogosian's best plays, see him onstage performing a political "rant" and watch him on TV as the...
Kieran Culkin, Jessica Capshaw, Manu Narayan, Kelli Garner and Daniel Eric Gold are among the cast of the new staging of Eric Bogosian's subUrbia slated to open the new Second Stage Theatre season.
www.topix.net /who/eric-bogosian   (727 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian News - Page 2
Eric Bogosian has joined the cast of NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as a regular.
Playwright-actor Eric Bogosian and composer-producer-sound artist Elliott Sharp will join forces for This Is Now March 14 and 15 at the Merkin Concert Hall.
Eric Bogosian, the writer and actor who shook things up for three decades on New York's stages, wrote "Drinking in America" to explore the national obsession with the American Dream and the terrible pressures...
www.topix.net /who/eric-bogosian/page2   (352 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - A&L News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Eric Bogosian, incendiary writer of plays like Drinking in America and Talk Radio, will perform The Worst of Eric Bogosian, an evening of favorite rants and monologues, on Thursday, May 9 at 9 pm in UCSB Campbell Hall.
Bogosian’s monologues are published by Theatre Communications Group and a recording of Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead is available on CD from the Blackbird Recording Company.
This performance by Eric Bogosian is presented by UCSB Arts and Lectures and sponsored by the Santa Barbara Independent and the Harbor View Inn.
www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu /archive/2001-2002/pr/bogosian.asp   (773 words)

  
 AllMegaStar.com: Eric Bogosian as Professor Goodwin in Warner Brothers' Gossip - 2000
AllMegaStar.com: Eric Bogosian as Professor Goodwin in Warner Brothers' Gossip - 2000
Before they know it, the campus is in a frenzy and the students have to come to terms with their actions, but by that point, it might already be too late.
Eric Bogosian as Professor Goodwin in Warner Brothers' Gossip - 2000
www.allmegastar.com /photo/eric_bogosian_gossip_001.html   (136 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian Bio - Eric Bogosian Biography - Eric Bogosian Stories
The screenplay was almost entirely based on the play and some biographical information about Alan Berg, a talk show host in Denver who was murdered in 1984 by white supremacists.
Eric's film catalogue includes the films Heights, Wonderland, Igby Goes Down, Atom Agoyan’s Ararat, Gossip, Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, The Substance of Fire, Under Siege II and Dolores Claiborne.
Eric is married with two children and lives in New York with his wife, director Jo Bonney.
www.tv.com /eric-bogosian/person/6172/biography.html   (509 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eric Bogosian (born on April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, monologist, and novelist.
Bogosian, an Armenian American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts.
When performing on stage, Bogosian generally appears as a series of characters, and uses only a microphone and a folding chair as props.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eric_Bogosian   (240 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian : Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
On Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Eric Bogosian comes up with ten characters who allow him to fire sharp satiric jabs at conspicuous consumption, greed, and masculinity run amok.
Each of these characters comes to life largely because of Bogosian's vocal skills -- so much so that hearing these monologues is just as entertaining as seeing him live.
There is, however, a second kind of voice that shines on this album -- the voice of Bogosian the writer.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,248870,00.html   (246 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - MovieActors.com
Eric Bogosian was born on April 24, 1953 in Woburn, Massachusetts.
In 1996 Eric Bogosian brought to life the voices of Ranger at Old Faithful, White House Press Secretary, Lieutenant at Strategic Air Command in BEAVIS AND BUTT HEAD DO AMERICA.
Eric Bogosian wrote FUNHOUSE in 1986 a made for TV movie, he was the writer as well as an actor in the film.
www.movieactors.com /actors/ericbogosian.htm   (113 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Suburbia: Livres en anglais: Eric Bogosian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bogosian's venomously funny play, which he adapted himself for the screen, is given warmth and generosity by Mr.
Bogosian's knife-edged humor and hairpin turns at the end of the play keep the material from meandering and guarantee the film its sting.
"Pic's fascinations owe in large part to Bogosian's skill at drawing characters that are American archetypes yet quirkily distinct and idiomatic.
www.amazon.fr /Suburbia-Eric-Bogosian/dp/0822214288   (350 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Eric Bogosian shines in his freshly-brewed WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE, a "dazzlingly funny new solo show,"1 hailed as "a glorious cacophony of voices"2 and "the most thematically satisfying of Bogosian's shows!"3
A profoundly insightful and wickedly provocative performer, Obie Award winner Eric Bogosian ("Talk Radio") has never shied away from the disturbing truths in life.
Based upon his critically acclaimed stage show, WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE is Bogosian at his funniest, smartest, and angriest.
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 Eric Bogosian, Q&A: Broadway.com Buzz
Call it the all-Bogosian season: Over the course of the next year, theatergoers can catch revivals of two of Eric Bogosian's best plays, see him onstage performing a political 'rant' and,, Q&A Eric Bogosian,, interview with Eric Bogosian,">
Call it the all-Bogosian season: Over the course of the next year, theatergoers can catch revivals of two of Eric Bogosian's best plays, see him onstage performing a political "rant" and watch him on TV as the stern new police captain on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
First up: Second Stage's revival of subUrbia, Bogosian's acid portrait of a bunch of ne'er-do-well 20-something white kids who hang out in front of a convenience store run by Pakistani siblings in an unnamed American suburb.
www.broadway.com /gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=536841   (1213 words)

  
 Eric Bogosian - Biography - AOL Music
The author of the plays Talk Radio, subUrbia, and Griller, monologuist Eric Bogosian also earned acclaim for his three Obie Award-winning one-man performances Drinking in America, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead.
An actor whose work ranged from appearances in the Steven Seagal action thriller Under Siege 2 to the Woody Allen comedy Deconstructing Harry, Bogosian also dabbled in music, in 1986 collaborating with Frank Zappa on Blood on the Canvas.
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 Eric Bogosian Biography, Photos, News for Eric Bogosian | TVGuide.com
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 Eric Bogosian Advance
The screening of Eric Bogosian's works precedes Bogosian's return to campus February 18, when the member of the Class of 1976 will perform
P.M. The day before (Wednesday, February 17), Bogosian will be interviewed on "Around Noon," a program of WCPN, 90.3 FM, Cleveland's National Public Radio affiliate.
The day after (Friday, February 19), Roger Copeland, professor of theater, will facilitate a discussion, A Conversation with Eric Bogosian, that will be open only to persons with Oberlin College identification cards.
www.oberlin.edu /news-info/99feb/eric_bogosian.html   (164 words)

  
 BOMB Archives | Eric Bogosian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
RIC BOGOSIAN is the author of the plays Talk Radio (NYSF/Public Theater), subUrbia (Lincoln Center Theater) and Griller (Chicago's Goodman Theatre and Baltimore's Centerstage Theater), as well as three Obie Award-winning solos: Drinking In America,
Bogosian's work has been staged around the United States and the world.
Bogosian lives in New York City and has a home on the web at www.ericbogosian.com.
www.bombsite.com /archive/foreman/bogosian/bogosian_bio.html   (251 words)

  
 Playbill News: Eric Bogosian Plays Collected in "Humpty Dumpty" Volume
Eric Bogosian's three most recent plays have been collected in the new TCG volume "Humpty Dumpty."
Red Angel was performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, with Bogosian in the cast.
Bogosian notes this fact in his preface, and laments it.
www.playbill.com /news/article/96884.html   (460 words)

  
 Mall by Eric Bogosian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I can't put my finger on exactly why this book grabbed me, but for the two days it took me to read it, I felt like I was on a wild ride.
Bogosian sets up the action with intriguing characters: a rapidly degrading meth junkie, an existential teenage delinquent, a bored sexy housewife, a Haitian immigrant mall security guard, and a fairly normal young businessman with a tame taste for catalog models.
The book opens with Mal, a speed freak, who murders his mother, loads up a trunkful of guns, sets fire to his house, and heads for the mall.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crime_stories/82627   (260 words)

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