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{{Byline|last=Bernstein|first=Mashey|url=https://prmlr.us/mr03ber}} | {{Byline|last=Bernstein |first=Mashey |abstract=A long-time friend of Norman Mailer recounts spending an evening at the | ||
Mailer residence. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03ber}} | |||
{{dc|dc=I|n March 1994, on one of my periodic visits to New York}} from the University of California in Santa Barbara where I was teaching, Norman, whom I had known since 1978 when I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on Jewish aspects of his work, invited me to dinner at his home in Brooklyn Heights. As we sat around the dinner table, I said to Norman, in a moment of bravado, that I would love to see, ''Maidstone'' (1970) especially the notorious scene where Rip Torn, starring in the movie, suddenly attacks Mailer with a hammer. With blood streaming down his face, Mailer continues the scene. At the time, the movie had been out of circulation for years and there were no copies of it available. (In a sign of the times, that infamous moment can now be viewed on YouTube!) | {{dc|dc=I|n March 1994, on one of my periodic visits to New York}} from the University of California in Santa Barbara where I was teaching, Norman, whom I had known since 1978 when I wrote my Ph.D. dissertation on Jewish aspects of his work, invited me to dinner at his home in Brooklyn Heights. As we sat around the dinner table, I said to Norman, in a moment of bravado, that I would love to see, ''Maidstone'' (1970) especially the notorious scene where Rip Torn, starring in the movie, suddenly attacks Mailer with a hammer. With blood streaming down his face, Mailer continues the scene. At the time, the movie had been out of circulation for years and there were no copies of it available. (In a sign of the times, that infamous moment can now be viewed on YouTube!) | ||