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...Producer Joe Levine, who bankrolled The Carpetbaggers, took a million-dollar option on it, plans to put it before the cameras before it cools off. With such success enveloping him, Robbins feels that he can afford to snipe genially at some fellow writers who have enjoyed loftier reputations. Norman Mailer, he says, lost his knack "because he ran into his belly." And as for Truman Capote: "He'd be all right if he took his finger out of his mouth...
...TIME, Jan. 28), is now assistant circulation manager. Jose Torres, the light-heavyweight boxing champion, tutored by his good friend Novelist Norman Mailer, turns out a thrice-weekly column of political and social comment...
Like Norman Mailer, Konit was an engineering major. "I would have made a lousy engineer," he said. "It's fine to write a play that doesn't work but building a bridge, well...
...because that's how long it takes an idea to become a cause.... George Orwell said everything that needs to be said about the current international scene in 1948." Well, statements like this don't quite read as cleverly as they speak, and neither does his assertion that Norman Mailer is writing 19th century prose because of phrases like, "the wind rode by." ("Wind doesn't ride, for god's sake," says the spoilsport, "it BLOWS.") But Wolfe's dedication to the minute is real enough, and extremely articulate. He is fascinated by California where the Free-way has broken...
...memory-with the possible exception of the Kennedys'-have produced quite so exotic a cast of supporters and swingers. Among the Lindsay helpers were Actor Henry Fonda, Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jose Torres (a Puerto Rican), Singers Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli and Ethel Merman, Authors Norman Mailer and Paddy Chayefsky, Broadway Producers George Abbott and Hal Prince, ex-Baseball Star Jackie Robinson and Boxer Suear Ray Robin son, Comedienne Phyllis Diller and CORE Leader James Farmer...