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...nervously tapping their autograph books with their pens, their eyes gazing mindlessly into space, nervous smiles on their faces, waiting for some big star to arrive and inject some excitement into their lives. Their relationship with the film idols is a symbiotic one, of the sort that Norman Mailer described in his biography of Marilyn Monroe, a sexual excitement that feeds the emotional needs of the star and that makes her feel all the more alluring, thereby upping the ante, raising the fans' tension one ontch higher, and so the game continues...
...search for material Exley tries to secure interviews with Gloria Steinem. Norman Mailer, and people close to a favorite author, Edmund Wilson. The interviews, however, don't help. For one thing Exley is not an experienced interviewer, and he admits he's too scared of Steinem to ask the one interesting question he prepared, so unless you're interested in knowing that Steinem is difficult to get an appointment with, and what Exley wore and what they ate for lunch, there's very little there...
...tries to demolish or denigrate the success of A Fan's Notes, which got splendid reviews, sold respectably, and won some literary awards. For a while, Exley garnered fan notes of his own, as well as lecture invitations and a chance to hobnob with the likes of Norman Mailer and Saul...
Vladimir Nabokov made the list; Norman Mailer did not. Betty Ford is among the elect, but Jerry is missing. The New York Times qualifies, but not the Washington Post...
...year will try to bail itself out an shuck their principles by showing a bald-faced universal drawing card like Love Storyor The Graduate. Everything is Order--the cop on the watch, the way people file in to A,B,C and D. You might marvel at what Mailer would have called the "nursery school" architecture, and blink in awe at the number of faceless forms hunched over desks in the Science Library on Friday night, but everything is extraterrestially humming, scientific, in control. Especially it you're like me and never go in the Science complex except...