Archive | December, 2008

The Maidstone Brawl

By on December 23, 2008 in Video

This is the infamous clip of the ten-minute brawl between Norman Mailer and Rip Torn in the film Maidstone. According to Wikipedia: as the camera rolled, Torn struck Mailer in the head with a hammer, intending to “kill his character.” Mailer’s scalp opened up, and a vicious fight ensued. With the camera still rolling, Torn [...]

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NM on Charlie Rose

By on December 23, 2008 in Video

I posted a new link on the lower right of the front page to Charlie Rose’s web site. It shows all the interviews that he has had with Norman Mailer. The hours worth of video span over 10 years, from 1995 to 2008, including a memorial for those who died in 2007.

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Mailer’s 50th Bash

By on December 23, 2008 in In the Blogosphere

Bruce Klauber, writer and jazz musician, recounts Norman Mailer’s 50th birthday celebration in February 1973. He writes: Always the publicity hound, which is why Mailer was as much a “personality” as he was a writer, he decided in February of 1973 to throw himself a 50th birthday bash. But this would be no mere party. [...]

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Two Announcements

By on December 16, 2008 in Announcement, Conference

From President J. Michael Lennon: I am happy to announce that Professor Camille Paglia will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the Washington conference. She will speak on Friday, October 23. More details to follow. Also, we had a cancellation on one of the leather-bound, signed (Kennedy, DeLillo, Doctorow and Gunter Grass) copy of the [...]

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<i>Frost/Nixon</i> and Mailer

Frost/Nixon and Mailer

By on December 13, 2008 in In the Media, Politics

Norman Mailer is mentioned in Allen Barra’s review of the new film by Ron Howard: Frost/Nixon. Berra comments that Mailer, along with Gore Vidal and Philip Roth, attempted to probe the psyche of Nixon in literature. Berra writes: Mailer, not entirely unsympathetic, probably came the closest to pinpointing Nixon’s Rosebud. At the 1968 Republican Convention, [...]

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Mailer in “Doc” Documentary

Mailer in “Doc” Documentary

By on December 9, 2008 in Announcement, In the Media

Norman Mailer once described Doc Humes, novelist and cultural figure, as one of the few people I have ever met who was essentially, at bottom, more vain, more intellectually arrogant, than I was. “Doc” is a PBS documentary premiering on December 9 by Immy Humes about her father Harold L. “Doc” Humes. He was a [...]

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Brooklyn Hall of Fame

Brooklyn Hall of Fame

By on December 5, 2008 in In the Media

There only 86 days left to vote on the first inductees to the Brooklyn Hall of Fame. Among the nominees is Norman Mailer.Their web site states: The Brooklyn hall of Fame celebrates Brooklyn by paying tribute to a small number of unique native sons and daughters who either hail from Brooklyn or have made Brooklyn [...]

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Minutes of the 2008 Business Meeting

By on December 4, 2008 in Society

The annual business meeting of the membership of The Norman Mailer Society (“NMS”) was convened at the Provincetown Inn, Provincetown, Massachusetts, on October 17, 2008, with President J. Michael Lennon presiding. Other officers present were Barry Leeds, Vice President, David Light, Treasurer, and Marc Triplett, Secretary. Secretary Marc Triplett requested approval of the minutes of [...]

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