Antidote
Questionnaire piece seeking the negative opinions, or 'anathemas of five noted Americans,' on 13 categories: play, book, painter, food, film, musical work, celebrity, activity, virtue, place, mental attitude, type of humor, and 'Antidote in a category of my own.' Participating: Theodore Roethke, Mailer, Marianne Moore, Orson Bean, Jules Feiffer. Mailer's celebrity-anathema — 'The worst celebrity in America is of course J. Edgar Hoover' — caused the article to be placed in his FBI file.
“Antidote.” No author byline. Harper’s Bazaar, July 1963, 74–75. Questionnaire seeking the negative opinions, or “anathemas of five noted Americans,” on 13 various artistic categories and activities: play, book, painter, food, film, musical work, celebrity, activity, virtue, place, mental attitude, type of humor, and “Antidote in a category of my own.”
Participating: Theodore Roethke, Mailer, Marianne Moore, Orson Bean, and Jules Feiffer. Mailer says: “The worst celebrity in America is of course J. Edgar Hoover,” a comment that caused this article to be placed in his FBI file.