Mailer Fracas Fails to Jell
Jeff Millar's Houston Chronicle report on Mailer showing Maidstone at Rice Memorial Center and speaking afterward, including his account of Rip Torn's on-camera attack.
“Mailer Fracas Fails to Jell,” an article by Jeff Millar in the Houston Chronicle (30 April 1971), reports on Mailer showing Maidstone at Rice Memorial Center and speaking afterward. Asked why Rip Torn attacked him at the end of the film, Mailer answered, “Rip was acting. He figured that’s what the film aesthetically needed.” See Maidstone: A Mystery (71.28).