David Cassel of the invaluable 10 Zen Monkeys site writes in with "better Norman Mailer stories" than the one I mentioned this morning. He's right. A sample:
Publisher Barney Rosset lent his house for part of the filming, and remembered that things quickly descended into chaos.
My mother in law went outside, then came back into the house screaming, "There's a midget in the swimming pool...!"
Someone had thrown Herve Villechaize into the pool, and he was drowning.
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iih|11.12.07 @ 3:20PM|#
I am still unhappily thinking of the acronym IANAL :-(
Episiarch|11.12.07 @ 3:46PM|#
Boss! Boss! Da pain! Da pain!*
Tattoo being thrown in the pool is just several kinds of hilarious.
* Yes I know Herve shot himself because of the pain from his condition. I like black humor.
rho|11.12.07 @ 3:57PM|#
Rip Torn v. Norman Mailer.
I don't care who you are, that shit is funny.
Gus|11.12.07 @ 4:36PM|#
Well this sure wasn't written by David Weigel.
|11.12.07 @ 6:02PM|#
Norman Mailer on why he stopped smoking pot: Marijuana was eating holes in my vocabulary and that's not a good thing for a writer.