87.14

“Mailer Flees from Decades of Yuppiedom.” Article-interview by Rick Groen. Globe and Mail (Toronto), 14 September, Sec. C, p. 12. After a press conference at Toronto’s Festival of Festivals, where Tough Guys Don’t Dance was shown, Mailer spoke to Groen about the 80s, yuppies, the coming end of communism in Russia, and called Oliver North “a young Ronald Reagan, who can press every sentimental button and sit on every pious pot.” Accompanied by 87.14. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.