Showing posts with label Norman Mailer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Mailer. Show all posts
Friday, February 3, 2023

Saluting the centennial of Norman Mailer

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Mailer in "mad scientist" (filmmaker)  mode. Norman Mailer's centennial was this past Tuesday. While he's now thought of b...
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Disc-o-rama: My latest DVD reviews

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Readers of this blog might be unaware that I also review new DVD releases regularly for the Disc Dish website. I'm quite proud of ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Watching Steve Allen on pot: Mailer's vision

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Regular viewers of the show and readers of this blog will know of my affection for big Norm (see right below) Mailer. Viewers of the show wi...
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Smart TV: Mailer and McLuhan debate on CBC

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In celebration of my finally finishing Mailer’s last novel Castle in the Forest , I offer the following video "find" (not currentl...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Advertisements for Norman (on his way out)

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As my final farewell to the big Mailer, I herewith offer some clips from our recent survey on the program of Norman, filmmaker. These clips ...
Friday, January 18, 2008

"A giant death orgy with lotsa maniacs": More Mailer!

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I have got to share two pieces of info I found in the all-Norman, all-the-time journal The Mailer Review , which has a web presence here . T...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Norman Mailer on the triumph of the mediocre

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As a supplement to this week’s episode-length tribute to Deceased Artiste Norman Mailer, I offer this clip from a French TV documentary that...
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Friday, November 23, 2007

Norman Mailer on his characters and their penises

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Just had to upload one more brilliant little bit from Pennebaker and Hegedus' 1979 Town Bloody Hall (shot in 1971). Here Norman answers...
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Friday, November 16, 2007

"Deceased Artiste" Norman Mailer

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He was one of a fuckin’ kind, Mailer was. In certain ways a throwback to the Hemingway macho writers of the earlier part of the twentieth ce...
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