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Haley can even pinpoint the moment his old world stopped. It was Jan 31, 1977, the morning after the last episode of Roots was aired. Many writ ers find their lives altered by a bestselling book, but perhaps no other writer in history, from Homer to Norman Mailer, has been hit so hard so suddenly with so great a success. Roots as a book was already a bestseller; then came the TV triumph, which sent hundreds of thousands of additional read ers out to look for the book, making it the No. 1 nonfiction bestseller...
...Norman Mailer's right hand doesn't always know what his famous left is doing. The truculent author of The Armies of the Night appeared in a Barnstable, Mass., courtroom last week to haggle over finances in the divorce proceedings brought against him by his fourth wife, Beverly. Mailer couldn't explain how he had frittered away several hundred thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids...
...Norman Mailer, author (Armies of the Night), on his five trips to the altar: "I suppose I've married so often because we all travel in different ways. Being married to two different women is like being in two differnt countries...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Beverly Bentley Mailer, 48, sometime actress; from Norman Mailer, 55, novelist and journalist; after 15 years of marriage, two sons; in Barnstable, Mass. Mrs. Mailer, the writer's fourth wife, blames her husband's "many affairs" for her suit. Mailer currently lives with Model Norris Church, who gave birth to his eighth child last spring...
David Levine is the best-known political and literary caricaturist since Max Beerbohm. His cartoon of Lyndon Johnson's gall bladder scar in the shape of Viet Nam is a classic, and it is impossible to see a picture of Kafka, Mailer or Proust without remembering the artist's caustic lines. But there is another, gentler Levine: a water-colorist of enormous delicacy and control. The Arts of David Levine (Knopf; 205 pages; $25) celebrates both with generous samples of serious portraiture, beach scenes and parodic sketches that recall the nervous poignance of Daumier and fully justify John...