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Austin American-Statesman from Austin, Texas • 31

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The dairy life It's hard work, not luck, that keeps Dripping Springs' Pure Luck goat cheeses winning national competitions. WEDNESDAY IN FOOD LIFE Artful quilts It's been a long journey for the abstract quilts created by African American women from Gee's Bend, Ala. THURSDAY IN LIFE STYLE The A Life Arts ibitionist's son 2 Austin American-Statesman statesman.com Tuesday, September 5, 2006 Section 1 NORMAN MAJLER'S AI I I Greig A picture oboul 3 jfa gangsters hiding in a warehouse, A peril oi their lives. i A 5 1 he VQ minutes ot the film are wild from Jt beginning to end, which is to say that none of you have ever seen anything Dinner music? Check Web A remotely like this on film. Norman Mailer Collection photos wsomcknti 'Wild 90' movie poster In the 1960s, Mailer decided to produce his own films, with mixed results.

Still, says Jameson West of the Austin Film Society, the early films "Wild 90," "Beyond the Law" and "Maidstone" are a "holy grail" to cinephiles. I think the last retrospective was in 1983, in The Alamo Downtown will screen all of Mailer's films in October and November under the rubric 'Mailer vs. A re vi I belong to a nonprofit organization that donates money to deserving groups in our small town outside Austin. We are putting on a dinner to make money this spring and hoping you could help us find mariachis who will not charge a lot. I thought I heard that some high school students had formed a group.

Bobbie H. I cannot guarantee a discounted price. For a list of area mariachis, contact the Texas Music Office at governor.state.tx.usmusic and click on "Mariachi talent" under "VI. Musicians" for groups such as Mariachi Relampago, 626-9545 or mariachirelampago.com, and Mariachi en Fuego, 203-8747. To locate middle school or high school mariachis, contact Belle Ortiz, executive director of the Texas Association of Mariachi Educators, (210) 224-0258.

I would like to know the proper etiquette when I make a call to someone and while talking they receive another call. Is it proper for the person to say, "I have another call and will call you What if I am calling long dis- tance? My phone call is just as important. Arnold A. Avant I agree, unless you were told an important call is expected. In general, if your phone mate asks, "Do you mind if I see who this is?" be patient and say, "Go ahead," advises Peggy Post of the Emily Post Institute.

After 90 seconds, you are free to hang up as the second call has eclipsed yours. While walking my dogs at Town Lake, a police officer approached me while my dogs were frolicking in and out of the water in the "off-See 6REIG.D3 Talbot RANSOM ('KNTOi Radical, violent, brilliant: The young Norman Mailer literally walked on the edge. Ransom exhibit portrays Norman Mailer as a man trf -letters anchrmanxrf action By Roger Gathman SPECIAL TO Tl IK AMKRIOAN-STATESMAN A Although writers may be, as Shelley once said, the "unacknowledged legislators of mankind," museum exhibits about authors tend to put them in a more modest light, portraying them as semi-recluses who do nothing but crank out words on a daily basis. As its title announces, the Ransom Center's new exhibit, "Norman Mailer Takes on America," is a brighter and morecolorful thing entirely. Campaign buttons from Mailer's 1969 mayoral run: Mailer decided, as no American politician had ever done before or since, that his constituency would be the homeless, the marginalized, the outlaws.

Although Mailer made serious suggestions about how to run New York City, his campaign ended with all too few votes the homeless, apparently, were not a voting block. -1 'Norman Mailer Takes on America' What Exhibit When: Today through Dec. 31, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays (until 7 p.m.

Thursdays); noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Closed Mondays. Where: Ransom Center, UT campus, 21st and Guadalupe streets Info: 471-8944; www.hrc.utexas.edu Ua. LtfeiTw a -t, 't- Rather than the archaeology of a celebrated writer's workspace, it's an X-ray of America during the Cold War, touching on all the currents celebrity culture, the Vietnam War, black power, crime and media are still with us today as we try to create our own, shaky, post-Cold War models.

This befits the man. It's hard to think of an American writer as plugged into our discontents and as fruitfully egomaniacal as Norman Mailer. Yet this is only one side of the figure who emerges in the Ransom Center's exhibit. As he wrote, referring to himself in the third person in his 1968 book "The Armies of the for a warrior, presumptive general, ex-political candidate, embattled aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, 'radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter Timeline and plot chart for 'Harlot's Ghost' (1991): With its colored pencilings, thick lines and bal- lOoniiKe aivisions mapping trie Hiierdtiiuu oi una spy novel's 'Alpha' and 'Omega' characters, this worksheet looks like a Saul Steinberg doodle gone mad. It gives us a palpable sense of Mailer's self-appointed mission to play the imperial chronicler, scourge and fool of the American empire.

I he had a faint taint, a last remaining speck of the one personality he found absolutely insupportable the nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn. Mailer was, indeed, raised to be a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn, in a household See EXHIBIT, D3 At last, Couric gets down to business at CBS Today's the day, we humbly pray, when mind-numbing Katie hype goes away. Katie Couric makes her debut as The First Female Anchor of a Network Nightly Newscast on the "CBS Evening News." You've probably Chuck Bail Richard Rush will be in Austin on Wednesday for a showing of his film 'The Stunt Rusliis work lives up to his name By Chris Garcia AMEKICAN-8TATGSMAN HIM WHITER Over the years at his frequent film festivals in Austin, Quentin Tarantino has screened the exploitation movies of Richard Rush. One year it was the 1974 cop-buddy classic "Freebie and the Bean." This year, it was 1968's bike-sploitation movie "The Savage Seven," the rowdy sequel to Rush's B-biker flick "Hell's Angels on Wheels." In his introductions to the movies, Tarantino raved and rambled about Rush's genius, his spectacular contributions to the American exploitation canon, crowning Rush one of the drive-in greats. Rush will be at the Alamo Downtown on Wednesday to screen his 1968 hippie-sploitation drama "Psych-Out," starring a pony-tailed Jack Nicholson, and what he and many fans consider his best film, 1980's "The Stunt Man." Peter O'Toole stars as a puckish movie director who plays devious tricks on his actors, blurring the borders of reality and illusion.

"The Stunt Man" See DIRECTOR, back page wane Holloway AO) heard about this already. If not, welcome to Planet Earth. She takes over from Bob Schieffer, who took over from Dan Rather after he was forced out March 2005. The sometimes stodgy CBS news, a perennial No. 3 in the ratings behind NBC and ABC, 'CBS Evening News' 5:30 p.m.

CBS, KEYE Channel 42 Couric. The latter is a closely guarded secret, but we doubt it's "Courage," which rained ridi- -cule down on Rather. A The arrival of Couric could also mark the re-: turn of Walter Cronkite to CBS. After turning over the anchor desk to Rather in 1981, Cron- kite all but disappeared from the network. Now there are rumblings that at the very least the.

is changing up more than the name on the anchor chair. There will be new theme music from Oscar-winner James Horner (perhaps ominously, best-known for the music for new graphics, new set, a nightly sound-off segment called "Free Speech" and a new sign-off from A John Paul Filo RS Former 'Today' host Couric makes her debut tonight anchoring the 'CBS Evening See HOLLOWAY, back page.

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