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- PEOPLE, Page 60Lend Me Your Ear
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
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- Norman Mailer reportedly considers being photographed the
- equivalent of undergoing root-canal work. That hasn't stopped
- the author from starring in his own bizarre improvisational
- films. Last week Mailer lectured on his celluloid life at a New
- York City retrospective of his movies. Among them: Maidstone,
- the film he made in 1968 that ends with Mailer's family
- shrieking "Daddy! Daddy!" off-camera as the author-director
- tries to bite an ear off actor Rip Torn, who had attacked him
- with a hammer. The battle ceases with an exchange of insults,
- with Mailer muttering "He's hurt worse than me." How things
- have changed. "In Rip's view, everything made perfect sense,"
- says a now grateful Mailer. "He may have saved the film."
- Sometimes it takes a hammer to drive home a point.
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