Playwright David Mamet (pictured) will be maintaining a blog to promote his new Broadway play, November, which stars Nathan Lane as contemporary American president Charles Smith and Laurie Metcalf as his lesbian speech writer. What’s interesting, perhaps, is that Mamet will be writing the blog – which he says he’ll update for the duration of the open-ended run – as President Smith. Sample entry from Monday:CONGRESSIONAL PAGE SEX SCANDALS It seems to me that, at......

MOVIES: A lavishly restored print of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s visionary film The Holy Mountain has been making the rounds this year; it’s back again this weekend at IFC Center for a pair of midnight screenings. First released in 1973, The Holy Mountain has grown into a cult classic for its surreal, psychedelic imagery and a serpentine, metaphysical storyline, which takes as inspiration, among other things, "The Ascent of Mt. Carmel" by St. John of......

Start sharpening your spurs, gays and gals, because Jake Gyllenhaal is coming to Broadway! If director Mike Nichols has his way, you’ll soon have your chance to stalk the sensitive heartthrob as he flees through the stage door of Farragut North, a new play about presidential campaign hardball penned by a former Howard Dean staffer. According to today’s Post, Gyllenhaal (who made his stage debut in a Maggie Gyllenhaal-directed production of Cats in their parents’......

Reasons why Gothamist is sad to have missed Chris Rock's comedy show (playing through early next week, but sold out, natch, at MSG), after reading Kelefa Sanneh's review : – "If you're black, America is like the uncle that paid your way through college but molested you." – On Roy Horn being mauled: "That tiger didn't go crazy. That tiger went tiger." – Krispy Kreme donuts' secret ingredient: crack Chris Rock and the Weitz Brothers'......

Showtime has announced that a movie called "The Jayson Blair Project" will air next year. Yes, based on former Newsweek writer Seth Mnookin's stories about lying and plagiarizing former Times reporter Jayson Blair. The Daily News talks to writer-producer Jon Maas about the black comedy: Maas yesterday said he has more interviewing to do before writing the screenplay. "I don't want to pull a Jayson Blair on Jayson Blair." Showtime's president, Robert Greenblatt, tells the......