European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Center stage with a bang Byli Krasnow United press International he is an aging heir to Ernest Hemingway a jewish Brooklyn Ite who swagger like an Irish bar this is the Way other people look at protests Norman Kingsley now a Grandfather by i always if people Only knew How Boring i really am to but he always manages to land Center stage with a even when the press shreds his work and scorns his six this Paunchy father of eight children and 23 books keeps firing what keeps the masses stuck on his muscular Mailer is cerebral i wont look 1 simply have no use for my old ideas if they no longer Are his piercing the Blue of a Hollywood swimming Are relentless in their if it was the wrong Why should i be Loyal to it i mean at their Are nothing but excretions from the Ive been through a number of sizeable changes in my on various stopping Points in his 36year he co founded the Village ran for mayor of new York on a ticket with columnist Jimmy said women should be kept in cages during the height of the feminist stabbed his second wife with a charged admission to his 50th birthday appeared in the movie four out of five espouses Are still close wife 6 is Arkansas bred Norris a Painter 25 years his he has fathered children with All of is this mailers last Jespere i Hope when two narcissists meet who have the same its made in actual we have the same Church and Mailer were both born people whose fundamental relation is to themselves usually do Best marrying other narcissists because they get a High tech he which they Tuu june each other my life is More settled now than it has Ever in a Fluffy suite at Washington Hay Adams hotel its Tough to imagine this is the same obscenity spewing rebel who became famous with an Antiwar the naked and the when Mailer stayed at the Hay Adams in he stormed the Pentagon in a Vietnam protest March and was later he translated the event into his first the armies of the this Mailer is Slick Navy striped White Collar shirt and hounds tooth trousers that look plucked from the pages of gentleman a Gold cuff Bracelet cinches his his legendary curls have thinned and straightened with the belly his face is Chalky i hate to Hes in town on a press run to tout his new Book and first mystery Tough Guys dont i wrote it in 61 says i was scared that not enough time to write a but its got some of the Best writing Ive Ever done in if i thought it was a bad i would never have admitted i wrote it in two i would have when its mentioned that the libertarian revolutionary looks a bit like an elder the old fire Page 14 the stars and stripes that 10 years off being an elder he barks in a voice Raspy from decades of he has since the Odds if you stay alive Long enough in Ameri can life and you keep then automatically you become an elder but i think you have to pass 70 to do who has Mailer become at 62 youre going to have a Tough time figuring it its going to be like a dentist working not with but with his he laughs exposing stained and crooked my life consists of eight scenarios going on at up photo Mailer and second wife in court in Mailer with his sixth and present Norris Appolo he the eight scenarios Are All at Odds with one its As if youre giving a party where youve invited a great Many very different and suddenly youre the Host at this party and youre doing your Best to bring the guests the to carry on the happen to be the disparate parts of your so youre always trying to bring the extremes of your life into some kind of it makes for an interesting he talks so fast that the words garble into one Runyon when it comes to juggling extremes of the mailers had lots of from Brooklyn to Harvard to world War ii to booze and drugs to a Seesaw of coups and flops and still going at dinner in the hotels dining he announces straight out that his Fanny Schneider had a lot to do with shaping his she after the woman who dubbed him Nachum which translates from hebrew into Norman the Beverly wife has observed that Fanny Mailer is the Only Norman Bent an actress who bore Mailer his fifth child and first is the one sex who int on speaking terms with Mailer orders a whisky sour and reflects i was brought up in a fairly solid jewish Middle class House during the and my Mother probably had a More definite View of the universe than anyone 1 have Ever his full Bow lips break into a kindergarteners and so a great Deal of life consisted of trying out her hypotheses whenever smashing if your Mother has very Strong opinions and Shes solidly behind you get All the strength of her being behind and that and you have enough strength to throw Over All of her opinions and move away from she lives two blocks from her son in and sees him three or four times a his Harvard education was funded by her Job at a fuel Oil a one truck and by David the Rich Uncle who owned the mailers South Afri can born Isaac Barney was an accountant who was out of work for Long stretches of he claims he never looked for Fanny Mailer clones in the women he if you already have a terrific Why would you want to marry another one Mailer oppo Sites jews Are always attracted to ital ians Blacks greeks indians his first Beatrice was jewish and maybe another one but didst want to admit he says in a serious Barbara Mailer a younger married is his Only the blonde Brunette Issue is a Puzzle to one he feels comes Down to a question of Good everything else being if you have two women of equal the blonde will tend to get the Guy who packs the biggest gun in the Norris is a Baptist now Are blondes intrinsically More evil or is it because there blondes and have More Opportunity he i dont but blondes have an Bru on the other in the Brooklyn of my boyhood were More i half of what j know about women is what 1 Learned on the streets of Macho training didst come Only from the neighbor a photo the novelist pits his strength against Mohammed Ali in mailers inspiration to write came from Reading Edgar Rice Burroughs books about the King of the by age Mailer had penned the the Martian inva an account of a trip to at As a freshman at he was Boring into John James John Dos passes and Ernest Sophomore Mailer was clearly on his his piece about Pool the greatest thing in the won Story magazines first and he joined the advocate a Novella he wrote at a calculus at was later published As part of a i never met i wish i had but i can live without having met Mailer says of the Mentor he imitated Early in his you people often want to meet i just get a sense of woe at the i feel if they love my books that if they meet me they can be he scans the then settles on Lamb chops and a bottle of California when he or he injects a French affectation into his brusque new drinking to an activity Mailer was renowned is yesterdays am i a heavy Drinker but look at see the rings under my once the rings Are they Are there this is the Mark of my he takes his two Index fingers and sweeps them across the people have such splendid notions you he they really want you to be 6 feet they want you to be 62 and have kept your Mailer is 5foot8 and it was a Skinny Mailer who graduated cum lauds from Harvard in the following at he married his College and was drafted into the he landed in the 112th army Cav a Branch of the Texas National Mailer didst see combat until he was assigned to an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon protecting a Divi Sion that was fighting its Way toward hanging out with Tough talking southerners at War time made a lasting to this when Hes driving Home a Norman Mailer of Brooklyn drawls like a Good Ole boy and houses his conversation with four letter he came away from his 15month experience with a diseased liver and raw material to write the naked and the published in May this searing backlash to the War turned its scrawny creator into a legend at age of the Book that Rode the new York times Best seller list for 11 Mailer said it made him feel prominent and i encountered a problem of identity at that who indeed was i and what was i going to write about now he compares the crisis to that of Leon Spinks a prizefighter who becomes Champ before he knows whether he can really fight or i All that idiotic behaviour after he beat Ali and won the championship came from the fact that he want ready for Fame at Mailer plunged to his Alllice Low in the Early 50s when he completed his third the Deer i was near a nervous breakdown when i he says of that sexual drama set in Southern starring a Stu like irishman and a blonde movie god when the first draft was his publisher said it lacked morality and demanded he clean it one passage in question was a description of drugs became mailers Refuge to Cope with the rejection and when he recounted those Days in advertisements to he wrote with each week of bombed and sapped and charged and stoned with with with Coffee and two packs a i was tiring into what Felt like he finished the last lines of the Book on Ltd i never did 1 was afraid of it because 1 had so Many psychedelic experiences on i had used up enough dare i Call it my on marijuana thai 1 thought i  go on and take Ltd or else id be nothing but a he still smokes grass once in a great bul the old magic is Silverman and Mailer split in 1951 she profoundly resented the female role into which my Success had thrust and he turned to Adele a sultry Spanish peruvian Painter he married in six years after a Blowout party at their a Drunken then stabbed Morales with a Penknife in the Abdomen and so Long As you use a theres some love read a poem he scribbled about the following 17 Days in Bellvue Hospital for psychiatric Mailer was pronounced legally critically wounded who underwent emergency sur never pressed charges and even Roqu Csick Hal the court be lenient with her he pleaded guilty to third degree was released on bail and received a suspended allowing his own devils to surface in violence was a he stated a decades anger made me 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