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...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...
...Wild 90 Mailer, with Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox-both of whom are real actors-pretend they have been holed up together for days. They yell at each other and chain-drink. The camera stays mostly on Mailer, who goes "Unhh! Unhh!" a lot while he is thinking up dirty words. People come and go. One is a prizefighter (José Torres) with a German shepherd. Norman has a protracted barking contest with the dog, and spars a round with Torres, demonstrating the killer-wombat style with which he has enlivened so many Manhattan parties. Toward the end, two broads...
...Norman Mailer put his money where his mouth is and turned out a movie he claims "has the most repetitive, pervasive obscenity of any film ever made." He may well be right, but it is rather hard to tell. Much of Wild 90 is utterly unintelligible, with a partially overloaded sound track and a thoroughly overloaded cast of characters who are barely able to get their thick tongues around the four-letter words...
...Heller belongs to a sad but honorable tradition. Good novelists from Henry James to Hemingway have often been poor playwrights. In recent years, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and James Baldwin have also bombed theatrically, though not in New Haven...
...someone thinks norma mailer is more important than hank williams, that's fine. I have no arguments an i never drink milk. i would rather model harmonica holders than discuss aztec anthropology...