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Are socialites what they once were?
Norman Mailer, who was memorialized at Carnegie Hall yesterday, performed the trick of getting almost as much attention for his public behavior as his writing.
At society gatherings he drank, he stabbed his wife, he fought in public. It was all tabloid fodder, but always counter weighted by his writing.
New York society today has a very different landscape, watchers said. In his time,...
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