Word: mailer
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...Southern cinema, one is surprised, given the fact that his "grand guy" persona was flamboyant and larger than life, that he never became a performer (like his comrades Burroughs and Mailer); his shy demeanor was doubtless the deciding factor. He can be seen in only four films: "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976) (as a journalist, in the restored version), the documentaries "The Queen" (1968) (where he judges a drag contest) and "Burroughs" (1983), and the infamous Rolling Stones film-portrait "Cocksucker Blues" (1972). The last-mentioned has never been officially available (the Stones hate it - but tend...
...that human messiness that is captured in CBS's excellent and disturbing Simpson mini-series American Tragedy (CBS, Nov. 12 and 15, 9 p.m. E.T.). Based on a book by Lawrence Schiller and former TIME correspondent James Willwerth, with a script by Norman Mailer--and contested in court by O.J., who tried to prevent its airing--it delves into the nest of brilliance, ego and sheer weirdness that was the high-priced Simpson defense. For the dream team portrayed here, justice is no science but rather a mix of fact-finding, gamesmanship, theater and politics--including the jockeying among Johnnie...
...Lover, Tropic of Cancer and other controversial works against obscenity laws, most famously--and successfully--in the landmark Fanny Hill Supreme Court case of 1965. He received a George Polk Memorial Award in journalism for his book The End of Obscenity in 1969, the same year his cousin Norman Mailer also won a prize...
...fiction. In a chapter called "My Three Stooges," Wolfe recounts the reception of his long-anticipated 1998 novel, A Man In Full. Not only was the novel a terrific commercial success, but it provoked strong reactions from a trio of highly respected novelists: John H. Updike''54, Norman K. Mailer '43, and John Irving. As Wolfe explains, these are his three stooges. The chapter is hilarious, self-serving, and provocative; Wolfe uses his three stooges to make his case for the future of the American novel (a case he has, not incidentally, made before). Novelists like Updike, Mailer and Irving...
...they created their own popular culture grounded in the lived reality and aspirations of black life in America. Far from demanding to join the club, the hip-hop kids created their own. And once they'd built it, Whitey came, desperately seeking access to the "cool" that, as Norman Mailer famously noted, has in postwar urban America been inexorably associated with blackness. What had started out simply as a joyous culture of black self-expression for a new generation eventually came to dominate the American cultural landscape. Will Smith may today be one of Hollywood's most sought-after leading...