Archive | August, 2007

Awards Benefit

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting the Fifth Distinguished Service in the Arts Awards Benefit at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on Monday, November 5, 2007. The Gilbert Franklin Medal will be presented to Norman Mailer, Michael Mazur and Ted Landsmark at a festive cocktail reception and gala dinner, including a silent [...]

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The Guest from Hell

Savoring Norman Mailer’s legendary appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. By Troy Patterson for Slate What’s your take on Cassavetes? Here’s mine: The filmmaker is one of three avant-gardists who readied America for reality television and the cult of pop personality, and his highly wrought psychodramas are an essential template for every loosely scripted, boozily [...]

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