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On Norman Mailer's Passing: When the Curtain Rises

Norman Lear | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

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Norman Lear

On Sunday morning, I read Charles McGrath's excellent review of Mailer's life -- and I choose "review" rather than obituary deliberately -- because Mailer was as much a piece of extraordinary theater as he was "towering writer."

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The Late Norman Mailer for President

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Chris Kelly

What would his negatives be? That he's dangerous or crazy? You mean as opposed to McCain? That he's dead? You mean as opposed to Thompson? Viable? If he could keep his mouth shut, he'd be the GOP frontrunner.

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

2007-11-10-20071110mailersized.jpgNorman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut visited the studio to sit for a group portrait for Vanity Fair.

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Remembering Norman Mailer

Paul Krassner | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Paul Krassner

When Norman Mailer wrote his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, he used a euphemism--"fug"--for fuck. The first time I encountered Mailer, I asked him about it.

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