It Happened Last Night
Earl Wilson's column describing the 500-guest party at Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment after the opening of The Deer Park; Mailer quips that he and Capote are thieves: "He's a bigger thief than I am. He's like Hertz and I'm like Avis."
A column by Earl Wilson describing a party of approximately 500 at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment after the opening of The Deer Park (67.13) — among the guests José Torres, Betsy Von Furstenberg, Artie Shaw, Budd Schulberg, and Monique Van Vooren. Mailer said that he and Truman Capote are thieves for taking money for writing: “He’s a bigger thief than I am. He’s like Hertz and I’m like Avis.”