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...Norman Mailer as a freshman was completely different from the Norman Mailer who’s been portrayed in the newspapers for the past sixty years,” one roommate, Maxwell Kaufer ’43, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “He was very quiet, majored in mathematics, and was somewhat nerdy...
...Kaufer, 85, recalled the novelette, as well. “We all started out getting C’s, Weinberg and I,” he said. “And then all of a sudden, [Mailer] started getting A-pluses, and we didn’t know why—until we started reading his essays, and they were all about sex! And he was a virgin...
Maxwell (Jonathan Kaufer) gives what is probably the most understated performance of the year (now that we're in Oscar season) as Peggy's boyfriend who is attempting to live with his wild girlfriend and find contentment in his own quiet way. And as the "party philosopher" at the fourth of July barbecue gives the best performance by a character without a name since Christie Brinkley played "the girl in the red Ferrari" in National Lampoon's Vacation...
FOOTNOTE: *Count 'em (in order of appearance): Andrew Marton, David Cronenberg, Richard Franklin, Landis, Colin Higgins, Daniel Petrie, Jonathan Kaufer, Mazursky, Paul Bartel, Don Siegel, Jim Henson, Jack Arnold, Amy Heckerling, Roger Vadim, Lawrence Kasdan, Jonathan Demme, Carl Gottlieb...
...Kaufer rejects the criticisms that the activists were a fraud because they were adolescents: "it that necessarily negative: We were adolescents. Adolescence is a constructive period of trying to decide for ourselves, putting things on the line and making decisions. In addition, Kaufer and others claim that as they passed out of adolescence into the "real world," they maintained their positions and values they had come to in college...