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“Semi-‘Tough’ Mailer.” Article-interview by Stephen M. Silverman. New York Post, 21 September, 31. Mailer credits John Bailey, his cinematographer for Tough Guys Don’t Dance, with improving “the director’s vision.” He also contrasts cinematic and novelistic pace, and discusses Blue Velvet in his conversation with Silverman at Toronto’s Festival of Festivals. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.