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Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
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  • Saturday, November 10, 2007 09:55 PM

    Mailer was a pompous ass

    kudos to Vidal for outliving Mailer, and recognizing that he was longwinded. does anyone give a shit what the lunatic fuckers Podhoretz or Buckley Jr. had to say about Mailer 50 years ago? these people are scum and actually responsible for the sorry state of our world today. incidentally, Updike is a pretty god looking good guy....one doesn't walk around with a fake accent 6 months after the war accidentally; great anecdote from Brando but shows to go what a pretentious ass mailer obviously was...if you saw "when we were kings", he ruined it.

    nice stories about New York in the 50's. mailer was a jerk that stabbed his wife. today we call those people abusers, and felons....

    —Anonymous

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