Just had to upload one more brilliant little bit from Pennebaker and Hegedus' 1979 Town Bloody Hall (shot in 1971). Here Norman answers a question about the protagonists in his novels that give nicknames to their penises. Germaine Greer — who in more recent years did a stint on Celebrity Big Brother over in England — has something to say about this phenomenon.
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This is a really funny clip, and I think Mailer's arguments here are sharper and fairer than in The Prisoner of Sex. Like a few of his late 60s/early 70s books, it's great as magazine reading but seems not quite substantial enough in book form - and his nonfiction is often romantic in a way his novels never were. His subsequent negativity toward feminism was almost certainly provoked by feminists' stereotyping of him as a primitive and mysoginist - though in the last 5-10 years he said he didn't blame them - "I made some stupid remarks about women, I said they were so dangerous they should be locked in cages..."
You can read my short piece about Mailer at Espresso Shots
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