Norman Mailer News
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Two icons in their twilight all but stole the start of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
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In “Norman Mailer: The American,” a documentary on DVD from Cinema Libre, we get to see the infamous moment when the author of “The Executioner’s Song” attempted to execute Rip Torn’s ear.
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As the Norman Mailer Center and the Muhammad Ali Center passed out cash awards to young writers last night, literary lions and scions pondered investing.
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Neil Armstrong, who set mankind’s first steps on the moon during Apollo 11, the mission that finally made extraterrestrial travel seem real and gave the U.S. a lead in the Cold War space race, has died. He was 82.
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I’ve been mesmerized by the coverage of Curiosity’s adventures on Mars, which has occasionally made me think of “Invaders From Mars.” Also “Mars Attacks!”
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Nancy Huston won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” for a steamy description of a threesome involving a photographer, her camera and her lover.
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Gore Vidal, the prolific polemicist of the left whose novels, plays and commentary challenged fellow Americans to rethink textbook lessons about power and patriotism, has died. He was 86.
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Vance Alexander sent 35 query letters to publishers and agents to pitch his book, a historical novel about a young slave in 1801 Connecticut who escapes to Canada. No one bit.
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David Guterson won the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for a torrid romp between a mother and her son in “Ed King,” a recasting of the Oedipus myth.
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Nicole Kidman played her as a neurotic New York housewife in love with her hirsute neighbor, a modern variation on “The Beauty and the Beast.”
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