tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post2244203425372648683..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Intimate Circumstances of One Particular Life'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-15229957589514583512012-08-02T18:39:04.428-05:002012-08-02T18:39:04.428-05:00I am no fan of Barbra Streisand. Yet I think that ...I am no fan of Barbra Streisand. Yet I think that in a more civilized state of society, John Simon would have been horsewhipped, repeatedly, on the steps of his club for such remarks. After Simon had reviewed, mostly favorably, one of Norman Mailer's later novels (<i>Harlot's Ghost</i>?), Mailer let go with a long letter to the NY Times Book Review, stating among many other things, that he Mailer had challenged him Simon to arrange a meeting to discuss Simon's handling of Mailer's daughter (an actress) in a review; Mailer implied that Simon had chickened out. He included an anthology of such descriptions--I have long forgotten the actresses' names, but dare say most of them passed for good looking women to most who trusted in their own eyes rather than Simon's.<br /><br />The Life of Milton is perhaps my favorite for its obiter dicta.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com