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...fool around, I will kill...
...bank robbers have broken into a house and are waiting for the bank president to come downstairs for breakfast. They hear voices: "Mummy and Daddy coming down together," says a robber. At this moment, Foley and about five other cops rush into the room pointing shotguns. Foley smiles, "April Fool motherfuckers." It's funny, but it's like laughing on a roller coaster that has gone out of control...
Director MacDonald's choice of Robert Garringer as that "wise old fool," Lord Augustus Lorton, proved to be quite apt--and most humorous. Richard Sale was impressive as Cecil Graham, the erratic character that in so many ways resembles his erratic playwright creator...
...George and the Godfather, Mailer has continued to attack large public figures and topical issues. And the books, no matter what their worth, meet with an increasing critical impatience for him to move on. The mind which could declare that "God, in his wisdom, made me a fool" could show us so much about ourselves through an investigation of himself, with unrelenting honesty no matter how humiliating the incident. That mind became earmarked with certain refusals to be incorporated into the rational--Mailer's themes began to appear with clarity: man is primitive and mystical, the human psyche does...
...trouble with the formulation of this book is a philosophical premise that Mailer, in his God's Own Fool honesty, declares in the introduction, the trouble with trying the write a biography of Marilyn Monroe is that her life was based on the publicity of a string of newspaper gossip column lies which struck their way into the American consciousness deeper than the quiet facts. As her fame increased, Monroe became immersed in these tangled stories, living some...