Film of Norman Mailer’s “The Deer Park” in Development

Written by Cillian Murphy on August 3, 2011
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In the 1980s, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne were commissioned by the producer Elliott Krastner to write the screenplay for an adaptation of Norman Mailer’s novel, The Deer Park. In a caprice of the Hollywood system, the film never made it into production. However, The Daily reports that Cassian Elwes, Krastner’s stepson, recently inherited [...]

Norris Church Mailer Names “The Year of Magical Thinking” As One of Her Five Favorite Memoirs.

Written by Cillian Murphy on May 1, 2010
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Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer’s wife of 33 years, has named “The Year of Magical Thinking” as one of her five favorite memoirs of all time. Her list was compiled for The Wall Street Journal‘s “Five Best” series, where she writes: In “The Year of Magical Thinking,” Joan Didion shows she is the stuff of which [...]