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American culture suffers from too much plastic, television and advertising, Pulitzer-prize author Norman Mailer '43 told several hundred of his classmates yesterday at a 50th reunion symposium...
...concur. Retired L.A.P.D. sergeant Paul Schraga, the first cop on the scene after the shooting, is convinced that right-wing zealots in his department's elite intelligence unit were involved in the assassination. "Conspiracy?" he says. "You bet your bottom dollar there was a conspiracy." Several celebrities, including Norman Mailer and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., have petitioned a Los Angeles County grand jury to review the L.A.P.D.'s investigation of the younger Kennedy's killing. Alas, considering how much evidence has disappeared, it is an open question whether such a probe would resolve old doubts -- or create new ones...
...lesbian author," I said tentatively. (On the back flap of Venus Envy, she remarks that if anyone tries to define her as such again, she will "knock their teeth in.") "If you're going to label me, then you have to label everyone," Brown replied reasonably. "Then Norman Mailer has to be a Jewish heterosexual writer. See what I mean...
Hirschfeld, who professed to enjoy all the attention, nevertheless got a court order barring Hamill from entering the building. At a rally outside the Post on Thursday, virtuoso prole-impersonators such as Norman Mailer and actor Danny Aiello were out in force. The situation reached a new level of hysteria Friday, when the cover of the Post was taken up by "an open letter to the judge deciding our fate." The missive begged Judge Francis Conrad to rescue the paper and, indeed, the civilized world from the "madman...
...realized this summer that I can't shut my eyes to my writing. Fantasies about latching into the easy spirit of the American dream are slowly losing their lace in my imagination. I've tried therapy but, with Norman Mailer, "I wonder if their ends are essentially different, the artist a rebel concerned with Becoming, the analyst a regulator concerned with Being...