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Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI

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SeaBassTian
11/11/08

In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
"It is written in his usual obscene and bitter style." I was reminded of Balk.
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miss_msry
11/11/08

In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
That's one of his wives. Can't remember her name.
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lazereyes
11/11/08

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I want an FBI investigation into who is that babe is. She looks like a redhead, even in b&w.
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Bottle-Of-Smoke
11/11/08

@lazereyes: That's Norris Church, his last wife.
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BookishLookish
11/11/08

@Bottle-Of-Smoke: Still foxy.
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Bottle-Of-Smoke
11/11/08

@BookishLookish: He may not have treated women very well, but he apparently had impeccable taste in them. I wonder if he mellowed out in his later years or if she just had the constitution to keep a crotchety old misogynist in check.
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BookishLookish
11/11/08

@Bottle-Of-Smoke: He definitely mellowed, was nearly deaf at the end of his life and walked on canes, but Norris is a tough ol' gal from Arkansas and she probably handled him fine.
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averyreade
11/11/08

In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
Ah, the good old days. So quaint.

Now the NSA just collects the phone calls, emails, credit card purchases, and travel records of everyone. So much easier that way.

And if you make waves, onto a no-fly or terror watch-list you go.

Best of all, The Military Commissions Act of 2006 now grants the executive branch authority to declare any U.S. citizen an "unlawful enemy combatant" and detain them in an undisclosed location indefinitely.

Good times!

As for Mailer, the feds actually came very close to getting him at least once--but Richard Stratton refused to cooperate, taking a 20-year sentence instead of selling out his friend, the government's true target. Fortunately, Stratton became his own attorney in jail and got himself out based on an error in his sentencing after only 8 years.
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BookishLookish
11/11/08

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Mostly this just shows how batshit Hoover was and perhaps how his own penchant for dressing up forced agents to do the same. Still, get your comedy where you can.

FBI is not so mediocre anymore and has much bigger fish to fry than snooty writers.
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Iceland Spar
11/11/08

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You have to admire a time when the FBI even took things like the secession of New York City seriously.
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Mount_Prion
11/11/08

@Iceland_Spar: I still have hope for it. I want to believe.

I always used to say, "Well, they [the rest of the U.S., not just the state] have the nukes but we have the stock market."

Somehow I think that provides less leverage than it used to.
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BookishLookish
11/11/08

@Mount_Prion: But we still have the most delicious knishes and prettiest women and that has to count for something.

Right?
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Unfun
11/11/08

@BookishLookish: Don't forget pizza and bagels!
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Larry Fine
11/11/08

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Jesus Christ, his FBI file is even overrated!
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Pope John Peeps II
11/11/08

@pareenesterrine: You know, a lot of people actually confuse their literary likes and dislikes with a valid opinion about the objective worth of a writer's work.

Which is pretty silly.
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Larry Fine
11/11/08

@Pope John Peeps II: I decided to rewrite your comment in Mailer's voice on this Vet's Day:

A lot of people actually confuse their likes and dislikes in bed with a valid opinion about the objective worth of a lover's work.

Which is pretty silly fucking.
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Pope John Peeps II
11/11/08

@pareenesterrine: yeeesssssss.... that sssssuuuurreee is Mailer all righty. Wow. You're like one of those famous Monet forgers.
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Larry Fine
11/11/08

@Pope John Peeps II: The correct term is Maileree.
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Sproing
11/11/08

In reply to Norman Mailer's Bad Review from the FBI
Michiko Kakutani was an FBI snoop?
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