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Word: screenstruck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dead Serious. Clearly Mailer has been screenstruck for years, and he maintains that "films speak to a deeper level of the unconscious than writing." But his immediate plans are to write a new novel -and high time too. Just possibly he is a little weary of moviemaking. His first picture effort, Wild 90 (an hour and a half with three hoods on the lam), was hardly seen, while his second, Beyond the Law, received only limited distribution despite its director's claim that it is "one of the best pictures ever made about cops and crooks." Perhaps the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norman's Phantasmagoria | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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