Jackson, Bassett to scale 'Mountaintop' in award-winning play about King
In one of this fall's most anticipated new Broadway productions, "The Mountaintop," Samuel L. Jackson will play a weary traveler who strikes up a conversation with a hotel maid. "He's a man with a family, winding down from a tough day," Jackson says. "He finds he can talk to her about the pressures in his life. He lets his guard down a bit. He's a little flirtatious " you know, he's just a guy." Except that Jackson's…