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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3

      When Mailer punched out Gore Vidal at a party, Vidal, while still prone on the floor, quipped, "Norman, once again words have failed you."

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3

      How famous was Norman Mailer back in the day? In 1982, SCTV did a skit about his feud with Gore Vidal, with Eugene Levy as Mailer & Martin Short as Vidalhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVc8LGlR69c …

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        1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3

          Is Norman Mailer being cancelled? Or is his type of literary celebrity, tied to topical news & public feuds, inherently transitory.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/the-famous-and-the-unread?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …

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        1. Michael McGough‏ @MichaelMcGough3 Jan 3
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          I loved that bit, but I suspect the feud was news to most viewers. SCTV writers often were more erudite than the audience. (I also remember Joe Flaherty as WFB invoking Malachi Martin!)

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        1. Greg Meineke‏ @g_meineke Jan 3
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          So, like, Canada famous

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        2. Fred Schaefer‏ @Fcsnva Jan 3
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          This is still so damn funny, it wouldn't be done today, not in the least because nobody under the age of 40 knows who Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal were.

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        3. Duffer Swango‏ @RafaelEche Jan 4
          Replying to @Fcsnva @HeerJeet

          Am 35, can confirm, however that skit from SCTV is hilarious.

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        2. Avi Steinberg‏ @avi_steinberg Jan 3
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          For me, the sign of Mailer’s fame was that Life Magazine hired him to write about the moon landing in 1969 and put *him* on the cover, not an astronaut or, say, the moonpic.twitter.com/qSOTB9iSU7

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        3. inconvenient truths ⚑ חיים זה לא נוח‏ @shimonedelman Jan 3
          Replying to @avi_steinberg @HeerJeet

          I never saw any photo of his until now, but I remember how impressed I was by the title, “Of a fire on the moon”.

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        1. Ken Korczak‏ @KenKorczak Jan 3
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          OMG! That's so funny! Had not seen that before.

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        2. Sean Piccoli‏ @spiccoli Jan 3
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          Martin Short’s Gore Vidal is too good

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        3. Bill Shea‏Verified account @Bill_Shea19 Jan 3
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          For a second, I thought it really was him!

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