| Show The Sail Lake Tribune Sunday December 21 l'tffi Mailer brings his ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ to the screen Continued From E-1- 0 “I didn't see 'An American Dream ’ Friends took me aside and said it would make me violent 'The Naked and the Dead' — Charles Laughton was going to direct it he loved the novel but then his 'Night of the Hunter’ came out and failed and that took away his enthusiasm They got Raoul Walsh off his deathbed to direct it and he directed his worst film and famous story of Darryl Zanuck At the wrap party for 'The Longest Day’ he said there were only three people who couid do an unassisted one-archin-u- p and he was one of them He started to chin himself and got almost up to the bar and the drums rolled but then he could go no farther and finally he farted loudly and dropped to the ground and said ''Now there are only two people' " I ask Mailer what he thinks about the three films made from his books The Naked and the Dead An American Dream and The FJxecu-uonerSong died soon after "Now 'The Executioner's Song’ I thought got better as it went on I begged Larry Schiller (the man who supplied Mailer with the original research and transcripts of the story of convicted killer Gary Gilmore) not to direct it but he said he had spent ’s 0 V GQ (? G) ories I sit at his side like a student I remember reading his Advertisements for Myself when I was in high school and being impressed by the subtext of the book a collection of his short fiction and journalism interspersed with autobiographical essays on how and why he came to write w hat he did and be what he was That book was one of the first documents of the New Journalism And lurking beneath every sentence was another one which insisted that this man must be paid attention to There was no pose of indifference He was a man who in his work worked very hard because he thought it important to be listened to to make more time on it than I had his life was in it and before such passion one stands by and observes Tommy Lee Jones was wonderful in it even though he was all wrong for the script He had too much energy a man who has been in prison for 15 years is flattened out and doesn't have much personality left Tommy Lee was more like a biker caught on a drunken bust But he skewed the his energy and it script toward worked ” n By now it is late at night in halfway through a shooting schedule that will last until three or four in the morning and yet Mailer talks on filled with ideas with mem Prov-incetow- his mark to be remembered Your name used to be on the front pages I say remembering all the headlines about Mailer's brawls Mailer's trials Mailer’s busts Mailer's binges Mailer’s fights with wives Now you are on the book pages "Well I stopped drinking for a year and a half and enjoyed having my sv stem clear of the stuff When I w ent back I didn't enjoy the hangovers so much so now I drink in moderation of all damn things " There is a certain detachment in his voice that perhaps wasn't there years ago "A man who savs he is happi'v married is a fool but I will take a chance and say that I am stopped getting into trouble years ago I think as you get older you make peace with who and what you are or vou grow ill And as I grow older there are ctr tain narcissistic pleasures no longn take It doesn t help ntv day to see a good photograph of ntvself in the pa per because there are no good photo graphs anv longer Theie ate mu Ii things as aging male beauties mil I m afraid come under that catego ry Thats all right I simply don t think about ms self as much as I used 1 1 1 to " ® (MS? 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