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Wed, Jan 28 • New York Magazine's Vultures feast on New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley's re-review of "Speed the Plow": " 'Is it too late to send a thank you note to Jeremy Piven?' he begins. Just a day after his hatchet job on poor Mary-Louise Parker's Hedda Gabler ('one of the worst revivals I ha...

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