Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Norman Mailer Enlists His Private Army to Act in Film

J. Anthony Lukas's first of several accounts of the filming of Maidstone on Long Island; Mailer quoted at length on cinéma vérité.

An article by J. Anthony Lukas — the first of several accounts of the filming of Mailer’s film Maidstone in the Hamptons. Mailer is quoted at length on making “a beautiful, tasteful, resonant, touching, evocative picture with cinéma vérité methods in four days.”

First published: 1968-07-23
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 68.14
Cite as: /works/1968-07-23-enlists-private-army
Last updated: 2026-05-30