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Norman Mailer, a dissenting view

November 10, 2007 - 11:48 am - by Roger Kimball
Dawn
2007-11-11 00:35:32

How can we forget his ‘film’ where he and some friends spent the entire time ‘improvising’ such complex emotions as being drunk on camera? He claimed that the dialog came from the ‘native wit’ of his pals. I suspect that even a colossal ego like Tom Cruise would be reluctant to put together such a worthless vanity project.

If his writing hadn’t been propped up by the lefties, he’d have sunk into the obscurity he so richly deserved.