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‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer
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‘Norman Mailer: The Sixties’: A Turbulent Decade, an Exhaustive Collection, a Divisive Writer

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 / 12 September 2018

Despite Mailer's literary merit, his persistent fetishizing of the black body in his writing during the '60s gets tiresome. Yet we can't ignore these works.

‘Best of Enemies’ Shows Brilliant People Behaving Badly
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‘Best of Enemies’ Shows Brilliant People Behaving Badly

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 / 5 October 2015
The film makes the case that these television debates up, entertaining and increasingly noisy, were “a harbinger of an unhappy future". That is, the future where we now live.
The Media Circus Begins in ‘Best of Enemies’
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The Media Circus Begins in ‘Best of Enemies’

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 / 31 July 2015
This gripping documentary about the invective-slinging 1968 William F. Buckley-Gore Vidal debates isn’t a celebration of intellectual combat, it’s an original-sin tale for where TV news went wrong.
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The Love of Light: Gore Vidal, 1925 – 2012

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 / 21 August 2012
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‘Caligula’s Ghost: Why Cinema Needs Epic Failure More than Mediocre Success

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 / 1 December 2011
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Obscene: A Biography of the Life and Career of Renowned Publisher Barney Rosset

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 / 12 March 2009
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Flying Alone: Edward Hopper and America’s Night Side

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 / 12 June 2008
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2005)

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 / 29 April 2007
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Why We Fight (2006)

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 / 27 January 2006
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Inside Deep Throat (2005)

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 / 11 February 2005