My favorite Norman Mailer moment: His putdown of wannabe intellectual Dennis Miller

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First, mailer wrote an article for the London Times (I can't find the link):

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Then Miller wrote this piece of crap for the Wall St. Journal in response. Apparently, he thought being an M&Ms pitchman qualified him to match wits with one of the greatest literay minds in America. But no amount of pop culture references, can hide the fact that he was dead wrong and history has proven him so.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003453
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Then Mailer knocked Dennis out with these few, yet direct, words:

Dear Dennis,

Just because the two big guys who flanked you on Monday Night Football took away your balls and left you with a giggle in replacement doesn't mean you have to suck up to The Wall Street Journal.

But thanks for appreciating my fine use of "keen."

Keen up, then, to my piece and read it again without panic. You're too good to become squalid and kiss-ass for so little.

Cheers, blessings,

Norman Mailer
Provincetown, Mass.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2003/05/dennis_miller_s.html