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PEOPLE, Page 60Lend Me Your EarBy Howard G. Chua-Eoan
Norman Mailer reportedly considers being photographed the
equivalent of undergoing root-canal work. That hasn't stopped the
author from starring in his own bizarre improvisational films. Last
week Mailer lectured on his celluloid life at a New York City
retrospective of his movies. Among them: Maidstone, the film he
made in 1968 that ends with Mailer's family shrieking "Daddy!
Daddy!" off-camera as the author-director tries to bite an ear off
actor Rip Torn, who had attacked him with a hammer. The battle
ceases with an exchange of insults, with Mailer muttering "He's
hurt worse than me." How things have changed. "In Rip's view,
everything made perfect sense," says a now grateful Mailer. "He may
have saved the film." Sometimes it takes a hammer to drive home a
point.