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...journalistic eulogies that followed Monroe's death were written by men," Steinem writes. "So are almost all of the more than forty books that have been published about Monroe." Steinem devotes many pages to arguing with the male-written works, focusing particular attention and ire on Norman Mailer's famed bitch-goddess vision of Monroe that ignored her very human vulnerability...
...LIVELIEST SPIRIT Marilyn Monroe, whose sexy memory still fascinated writers like Gloria Steinem, who wrote one of at least four new books about her (Marilyn), and Norman Mailer, who wrote one of two new plays (Strawhead); and whose platinum afterglow inspired Madonna to remake herself in M.M.'s image...
...while preparing to make her case before an immigration appeals board. But in a federal lawsuit she is pressing a separate challenge to McCarran-Walter itself. Her suit has been joined by PEN American Center, a writers' advocacy group, and eight prominent American authors, including Novelists Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and Alice Walker and Playwright Arthur Miller...
...Tough Guys screenplay is also by Mailer, but while the novel took two months to write, the film took three times as long. "It was tougher than I thought it would be. Scenes that read well on the page wouldn't play well." The motivating greed that drives the plot wound up being shifted from real estate to cocaine, and some of the gorier scenes were muted. "A horror film has to be delicate or it becomes a butcher shop," explains the author. There was also a larger difference. "When you're a novelist, it's all yours and your...
Having expected the shooting to "be seven weeks of hell," Mailer has, to his surprise, enjoyed it (and anticipates finishing it on schedule next month). "I like working with actors." And vice versa. "I think he wrote the part with me in mind," says O'Neal, who remembers boxing occasionally with his current boss. Now "he beats me up a lot worse than he ever did in the gym." Mailer is frankly hoping for a box-office success so that he can direct again. "I think I needed a vacation from writing," he observes. "Oddly enough, directing a film, because...