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	Neil LaBute - Biography - Moviefone
		Combining intriguing moral and ethical metaphors with dark portraits of the underside of American life, writer and director Neil LaBute became one of the most controversial new filmmakers to emerge in the 1990s, offering a perspective that was intelligent and possessing a brutally clear focus.
		That same year, LaBute released his third feature film, which was also his first film which he did not write -- Nurse Betty, a dark but sweet comedy about a slightly touched woman chasing her dreams after the murder of her husband, while being followed by the gunmen who did in her spouse.
		LaBute's next project, Possession (2002), was another departure for him, in that it focused mainly on romance and elements of period drama.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/neil-labute/222126/biography (578 words)

	Neil LaBute - Director
		Neil LaBute has been praised and vilified by serious film enthusiasts since the release of his very first feature film: "In the Company of Men" (1997).
		LaBute was so surprised when he won the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance that when he arrived at the podium to accept his award, he snapped a photograph of himself.
		LaBute was a member of the Church until late 2004 or early 2005, when his membership formally ended.
	www.ldsfilm.com /directors/LaBute.html (1880 words)

	Salon \| "Neil LaBute"
		LaBute, a graduate of Brigham Young University, was a playwright before turning to directing, and the theatrical influences on his film are strong.
		LaBute's two main characters, Chad and Howard, devise a crude game of torture to vent their frustrations with work and relationships, but the stakes soon get raised, and their victim, a deaf woman named Christine, becomes all but irrelevant.
		LaBute spoke with Salon about the nature of men, women, how he wrote the film and why a comedian should never laugh at his own jokes.
	www.salon.com /aug97/entertainment/labute970801.html (1251 words)

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		Neil LaBute is a graduate of Brigham Young University, University of Kansas and New York University.
		The prolific playwright and film director Neil LaBute has a reputation for freezing his characters in moral headlights, exposing their initial reactions to turmoil or devastation and unapologetically documenting the aftermath.
		Writer-director Neil LaBute has a bigger budget and a slightly larger cast for his second feature, Your Friends and Neighbors, but that doesn't mean he has blunted his edgy misanthropy while moving up the moviemaking food chain.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/neil-labute.html (674 words)

	Neil LaBute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Neil LaBute (born March 19, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright.
		Born in Detroit, Michigan, LaBute was raised in Spokane, Washington.
		LaBute's 2002 play The Mercy Seat was one of the first major theatrical responses to the September 11, 2001 attacks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neil_LaBute (623 words)

	Film & TV: Who's Afraid of Neil LaBute? (Salt Lake City Weekly . 09-21-98)
		Contempt is a theme that courses through his works, whether it be the contempt of a worker for his co-worker, a wife for her husband or a woman for her lover.
		Is it LaBute's reaction to all the surface niceness and all the suppressed anger he encountered in his adopted culture, which he may see more clearly as an outsider, that leads him to rebel by wallowing in the corrosive, uglier side of human nature?
		LaBute's most disturbing work is a play he wrote while at BYU, called Bash, which he subtitled "a remembrance of hatred and longing." On stage are two characters — a young Mormon couple sitting apart from each other telling the story of their big weekend in New York City.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-21-98/slc_story.html (2769 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Neil LaBute
		The dramatist and director Neil LaBute spoke at the London film festival about his adaptation of his own play The Shape of Things, and the tricks actors use to get a close-up.
		It seems very appropriate to me that Neil LaBute is such an important part of this year's film festival because his writing bears links to British playwrights such as Edward Bond and Howard Brenton as much as to people like David Mamet.
		And certainly Neil's plays have, in the last three years at least, had a very important place in the Almeida Theatre.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,,1080365,00.html (4681 words)

	Amazon.com: In the Company of Men: Video: Aaron Eckhart,Stacy Edwards,Matt Malloy,Emily Cline,Jason Dixie,Chris Hayes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Neil LaBute's intelligent script is somewhat reminiscent of Whit Stillman's darker moments (minus the collegiate cleverness and zany warmth), and his direction, while rarely visually impressive, does connote the hellish impersonality of corporate interiors with chilling success.
		LaBute should be congratulated for not allowing "the happy ending", instead twisting his conclusion to find yet another villainous side of Chad.
		LaBute's next film, Your Friends and Neighbors, was a bit better, but that too had a "shocking" scene in which Jason Patric talked about gleefully raping a man. Don't believe the hype of this film.
	www.amazon.com /Company-Men-Neil-LaBute/dp/076780094X (3118 words)

	Neil LaBute - "A Screenwriting Masterclass" - iofilm report
		LaBute, who was shooting the Wicker Man in Vancouver, was billed to give "A Masterclass in Screenwriting." If that sounds like he would be deconstructing plot structure and dipping in and out of narrative theory, well, it was nothing like that.
		LaBute could write the book on screenwriting, but he is not one for rule-setting ("The most I can be is a cheerleader").
		So LaBute, centrestage in an armchair, led an informal Q&A. He started by offering one simple reason why he wanted to get into writing: "Unlike an actor I didn't have to be there" and tried to elaborate on the kind of qualities a screenwriter should be equipped with.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /io/mit/001/viff_neil_labute_20051026.php (837 words)

	BOMB Magazine: Neil LaBute by Jon Robin Baitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		LaBute has been given (has stolen?) secret passkeys and is slowly, methodically looting everything in sight.
		The flattened longing in those pictures of affectless people, surrounded by a kind of blankness, is almost exactly the same temperature as that of Neil's work, as it were.
		I came up to Neil after his screening, following a question-and-answer period that he handled with grace and a certain cool and ruthless relentlessness, politely deflecting dumb questions and honoring serious ones.
	www.bombsite.com /labute/labute.html (546 words)

	Neil LaBute @ Filmbug
		Neil LaBute graduated Brigham Young University and attended the University of Kansas and New York University.
		LaBute returned to the U.K. to direct the world premiere of his play The Shape of Things (starring Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, and Frederick Weller), presented in the spring and summer of 2001 by the Almeida Theatre Company.
		LaBute most recently directed the world premiere of his latest play, The Mercy Seat, starring Sigourney Weaver and Liev Schreiber, which debuted in late 2002 at the Manhattan Class Co.
	www.filmbug.com /db/1600 (597 words)

	Neil LaBute Movies & News
		NEIL LaBUTE is an award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter and an accomplished playwright.
		LaBute's fourth film, a screen adaptation of A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel Possession, was released in August 2003.
		LaBute's play "The Mercy Seat" was staged in the fall of 2003 at the Almeida Theater Company in London, directed by Michael Attenborough.
	www.moviesonline.ca /_admin/celeb-Neil-LaBute.htm (916 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Neil LaBute
		Neil LaBute comes on like Jeckyll and Hyde via the schizophrenic ways he's represented now around the Hub: as the playwright of a lurid, monstrous trio of short dramas, Bash: Latterday Plays, at the Actors Worskshop through October 28; as the film director of the benign Hollywood comedy, Nurse Betty, showing at your neighborhood multiplex.
		Bash is far more consistent with LaBute's previous two movies, In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, both reviled for their alleged misogyny and/or misanthropy.
		LaBute met Aaron Eckhart, the actor whom he's cast in all his movies, while they were students at that Mormon bastion, Brigham Young University.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/jkl/labute.html (489 words)

	BBC - collective - neil labute interview
		Playwright, film director and now first-time author, Neil LaBute has a reputation for always looking on the dark side of life.
		Each story is told from the eye of the beholder, and the conversational tone offers an unnerving voyage into the mind of the man or woman reliving the tale.
		LaBute states that “the idea of the monologue, that you’re making a direct connection — I mean, maybe you only have two people reading your book - but whoever it is you have that immediate connection as long as they continue reading.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3193607 (461 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| The misanthrope speaks
		Neil LaBute, our leading spokesperson for the beast within, talks about art, letter bombs and critics in the wake of Sept. 11.
		The enjoyment of those films and of "The Shape of Things" is similar to that of a good horror movie; scary not just because of their outrageousness, but their whiff of possibility.
		We asked LaBute what he thought his chances are now, and about the role of the artist in times of cultural trauma.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/int/2001/11/26/labute (666 words)

	Bash - Neil LaBute
		The play is a dark vision of casual atrocity; "matter of fact brutality" as LaBute puts it, in which understandable individuals with mundane characteristics inflict pain on themselves and others in the name of prosaic goals with socially insignificant results.
		LaBute here delves into the complexities of motivation, allowing his character to gradually unfold the layers of detail which neither explain nor justify her actions but provide a glimpse of where they came from.
		The character’s final revelation that she had planned her crime for a very long time asks the audience to reflect on the tone and content of what she has said, which often sounds like romantic fantasy, to seek out resolution.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/Bash.htm (793 words)

	Biography for Neil LaBute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Acclaimed and highly discussed filmmaker Neil LaBute has made himself a force to be reckoned with and a name to watch.
		LaBute made his first major mark with the low-budget (and frighteningly realistic) cautionary fable, In the Company of Men (1997) about two male co-workers fed-up with the way women have taken over American society and it is no longer a man's world.
		It was about a sweet-natured waitress who had a love of soap opears and dreamed of being in the arms of her favorite star on that show, George McCord (Greg Kinnear).
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0001438/bio (1454 words)

	Amazon.com: This Is How It Goes: A Play: Books: Neil LaBute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I have been a fan of LaBute for many years now and have yet to dislike any of his work, but this is not a very good play.
		Since the plot is pretty much a mess, LaBute uses the convention of the main character breaking the fourth wall and talking directly to the audience.
		If you are a fan of LaBute and have read/seen all of his other work it may be of interest.
	www.amazon.com /This-How-Goes-Neil-LaBute/dp/0571211550 (1340 words)

	Mormon News for WE 03Sep00: LDS Playwright Neil LaBute's 'Bash
		NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- LDS Church member Neil LaBute's controversial show "Bash: Latterday Plays" will be shown in a television version on the cable channel Showtime at 8 p.m.
		He's tuned in to the strangely poetic rhythms in everyday speech and the telling details of workaday life." Both the Daily News and the Times praised LaBute's direction of the filming of the stage version (directed by Joe Mantello).
		LaBute first gained notoriety with his low-budget independent film "In the Company of Men," which tells the story of mysogynistic men who take advantage of women while on assignment in a distant city from their company's home base.
	www.mormonstoday.com /000903/A2LaBute01.shtml (432 words)

	HSX Prediction Market: StarBonds® : Neil LaBute
		LaBute made a name for himself in 1997 with the release of In the Company of Men, which he wrote and directed.
		The film was greeted with praise but also felt heavy criticism for its heavy dose of misogyny.
		LaBute's follow-up film was another biting, dark drama-comedy called Your Friends and Neighbors.
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	New York State Writers Institute - Neil LaBute
		LaBute's newest film, "The Shape of Things" (United States/France/United Kingdom, 2003, 96 minutes, color, 35mm), is based on his 2001 play of the same name.
		As it unfolds, LaBute's faithful adaptation of his stage play becomes a terrifying parable about modern love and art.
		In 1997, LaBute captured national attention with the release of the independent film, "In the Company of Men," based on his 1992 stage play.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/labute_neil.html (435 words)

	The Film&Television Trade Forum :: Vancouver :: Canada
		Neil LaBute is a highly acclaimed screenwriter, director and playwright who became one of the most controversial filmmakers to emerge in the 1990's, offering an intelligent and unique focus in his work.
		In 1997, LaBute adapted his play, In the Company of Men for the screen and won the Filmmaker's Trophy as Best Dramatic Feature at the Sundance Film Festival.
		LaBute then wrote and directed Your Friends and Neighbors, an examination of the sexual and emotional failings and frailties of three couples which was also based on one of LaBute's earlier plays, Lepers.
	www.viff.org /viff05/g-trade/speakerLaBute.htm (165 words)

	Neil LaBute
		Film director and playwright Neil LaBute responded by e-mail to questions from Robert Loerzel in January 2001, while he was in England filming an adaptation of A.S. Byatt's novel "Possession." At the time, LaBute's play "Bash" was making its Chicago premiere at the About Face Theatre.
		LaBute is the director of the films "In the Company of Men," "Your Friends and Neighbors" and "Nurse Betty." This interview originally appeared in Pioneer Press Newspapers on Jan. 18, 2001.
		I'm a big Anglophile in terms of film, theater, literature, etc., so this was a lovely way to try my hand at that world but still tell a story that's firmly rooted in present-day relationships and a contemporary world that I have a firmer knowledge of.
	www.robertloerzel.com /clipfile/labute.htm (1250 words)

	Playbill News: Playwright Neil LaBute Chats at Makor May 14
		LaBute will read excerpts from his work and will also discuss his upcoming Off-Broadway production.
		LaBute's Some Girl(s) is scheduled to begin performances at the Lucille Lortel Theatre May 17.
		Playwright LaBute, recently represented Off-Broadway with Fat Pig and This Is How It Goes, is known for his gritty dramas, which include The Mercy Seat, The Shape of Things and bash: latter-day plays.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/99671.html (301 words)

	Neil LaBute - Moviefone
		Combining intriguing moral and ethical metaphors with dark portraits of the underside of American life, writer and director Neil LaBute became one...
		LaBute also did graduate work at the University of Kansas, New York University, and the Royal Academy of...
		Neil LaBute - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Neil LaBute Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/neil-labute/222126/main (118 words)

	Neil LaBute's Nurse Betty
		What a surprise it was to discover LaBute moving in a somewhat lighter groove with his Nurse Betty (for which he did not write the screenplay), though you might not think so judging from the sadism which occurs in the first twenty minutes.
		She's a waitress in a small-town diner married to a boorish pig, Del (Aaron Eckhart, again playing a worthless slimeball for LaBute), who's cheating on her and scheming for some small profit as an amateur drug dealer behind her back.
		Betty is all "Little Orphan Annie" perkiness in the face of her dismal life, berated by her hubbie and working her tail off in the coffee joint.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/american_independent_cinema/48280 (357 words)

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		Like "Some Girl(s)," this second script often comes across as an idea for a play that hasn't actually been written yet, as if LaBute were not entirely sure what flesh and blood to hang on his dysfunctional fantasias.
		All this implies that LaBute is working in a larger context to hunt universal truths.
		With LaBute, you get a filmmaker who cuts to the timeless heart of sexual warfare.
	lycoszone.lycos.com /info/neil-labute--plays.html (450 words)

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