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After declining to take a bow at the Thai boxing matches in Bangkok, Novelist Philip Roth could not resist a dig at a bestselling rival. "Now if I were Norman Mailer," said the author of Portnoy's Complaint, "I'd be up in the ring after the first bout, kicking away at the boxers in golf shoes." Roth, who admits that his taxes have risen meteorically as a result of Portnoy, complained: "Every month I get a letter from the Government saying 'Congratulations! You have just sponsored another B-52 raid on Viet...
...great problems facing serious film makers is the parochialism of most film intelletuals, and the disturbingly ??? quality of movie criticism. ??? ??? interested in the future of the ??? would wast-time discussing the works of say, Philip R?th or Norman Mailer, yet every year small ??? film journals surface with long exegeses of ??? or Hawks, or critical re??? evaluations of Allan D.?wn's Sands of ??? Jimd. Incredible as it may seem, new books are on the stands about such ??? as John Franken heimer ( Grand Prix ) and Rouben Mamoulian ( The Mark of Zorro ), men whose stature stands in direct relation to that...
Within minutes, he is sprinting to the Algonquin, where he table-hops counterclockwise, pausing for quick chats with Norman Mailer and Bruce Catton. Lyons, who has a law degree from St. John's University (it was Sylvia who talked him into giving up law for newspapering), stops to say hello to a judge or two. But his eyes keep flicking ahead...
...York Times film critic-a period she justifiably describes as "a year in the dark"-she resigned "to do occasional articles." It is to be hoped that the occasions will occur frequently. There is a vast no man's land between Walter Cronkite and Norman Mailer. Renata Adler is just the right woman to fill...
...observes his age with no excessive charity. Chaos? Yes. Senselessness? Yes. Disintegration and despair? Be the author's guest. The dour view itself is not remarkable. Well-wrought chaos and subtly evoked senselessness have never been in such abundant literary supply. A reader thinks, with varying respect, of Mailer, Heller, Vonnegut, Cheever, Barth...