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Rebecca Pidgeon
Mamet's kid makes a movie, though not a very good one

Clara Mamet makes her film directing debut with "Two-Bit Waltz," an inconsequential, self-consciously quirky coming of age comedy from an actress-playwright testing her movie-making wings at the ripe old age of 20. The cast member of TV's "The Neighbors" has made the transition from playing a filmmaker in the indie enviro-terrorism drama "Night Moves" to being a writer-director. It helps that her parents are the famed playwright/filmmaker David Mamet ("Glengary Glen Ross") and his actress wife Rebecca Pidgeon ("Heist"). Would the Kahlo-browed Miss Mamet have gotten this project off the ground without the name, the fact that mom and...