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  • Date of Birth: 31 January, 1923
  • Place of Birth: Long Branch, New Jersey , U.S.
  • Biography: Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter and film director.

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Ha! This actually made me "laugh out loud". I do enjoy seeing great actors at work... The uploader on YouTube described the clip by saying "Ryan O'Neal in Norman Mailer's "Tough Guys Don't Dance" demonstrates the most melodramatic line reading... ... Full Article

Author Ethan Canin's life would make for a good bildungsroman - that ever-popular genre of novel about a bright character's coming of age. Born to working-class, artistic parents in the Midwest, Canin arrived in San Francisco in grade school and... ... Full Article

Gandolfini: I saw the play in London , and everyone left the theater laughing and talking about these couples. I asked the producers if it would be possible to move it to New York , and they had been thinking... ... Full Article

Art
villagevoice.com2009-05-12
What inspired They Might Be Giants to write that insipid little bubblegum tune "Meet James Ensor" is anyone's guess, but it couldn't have been the Belgian artist's strange, and sometimes hilarious, scenes of skeletons, corpses, and masked citizenry. ... Full Article

"Behavioral Problems" (Capitol Nashville) touches on material as diverse as bidets ("Fifty million gay men can't be wrong"), his bust for possessing seven-eighths of a gram of marijuana ("When I have seven-eighths of a gram of marijuana, I consider myself... ... Full Article

Binibon
villagevoice.com2009-05-01
Just six weeks after his release from prison, on July 18, 1981, Jack Henry Abbott stabbed a young waiter to death at the all-night East Village café Binibon. ... Full Article

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