William Buckley Interviews Norman Mailer on Firing Line (1968) Part 2
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@4455matthew Doesn't sound irish at all...drinking too much as usual huh? Mailer sounds like an intellectual jew of the arts which is what he was. Hurried, sweaty, brittle.
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what's with mailers slight, fake irish accent? does he realize he's doing this as he talks about the irish again and again? does anybody else pick up on this? it just rubs me the wrong way, for some reason, because my family is from ireland, haha
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Concur. The cable and broadcast networks should fire all of their "talk show" hosts and just do reruns of Firing Line and The Dick Cavett Show. The issues haven't changed...just the presentation (and intellect).
BTW, why did Mailer effect the Irish accent?
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5:36 -- that's interesting, the Firing Line audience doesn't get chairs. What hippie ethos Buckley had here.
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It is far better to read Mailer than to see and hear him made real. My guess is that while he may have considered himself a tough guy, his ass was kicked regularly. You can see the insecurity oozing from him...
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@HumanStrategy I think every orator or public figure should enjoy hearing the sound of his own voice. If one doesn't then, a dose of self-help books should be in order. That's totally normal, anyone who thinks otherwise is speaking from a partisan point of view. Now... being serious, the trouble with Mailer here is he allows himself to be thoroughly vulnerable as evidenced by the unfortified digressions. Easy bait for the serpentine host of Firing Line.
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Learned a new word! Gobbet- quantity of liquid or excerpt of writing, but, as used, a slimy turd ball.
Learned another! Micturation, that is, urination.
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@borjon23 I'm sure he had a good reason.
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Hey, you know what else is psychotic?! Stabbing your wife with a pen knife at a party and almost killing her, resulting in your being committed for psychiatric evaluation.
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Mailer is the kind of man who enjoys hearing the sound of his own voice; he also prides himself in this. I find it terribly nauseating despite his intellectual nature.
HumanStrategy 2 years ago 8
Compare this sustained intellectual discussion with all the garbage reality tv shows, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, etc., etc., etc., that we're bombarded with today. Our culture has gone straight down the toilet.
chimphater 8 months ago 4