Why Rip Torn Attacked Norman Mailer With A Hammer
The Maidstone fight in a lovely HD quality In the year 1970, a movie was released titled Maidstone, written and directed by a confusing artistic soul named Norman Mailer. The movie is really only somewhat famous amongst filmmakers and film fans alike for one extremely disturbing scene that plays out at the end of the hour and fifty minute long movie that appears to show director and star Norman Mailer and co-star Rip Torn actually violently fighting each other. The movie itself is about an ego-centric filmmaker who starts a Presidential campaign... I guess? Amidst the movie, it is spoken that Mailer's character should be assassinated while on his road to become President, often by relatives, friends and acquaintances who are out for his assets. In Rip Torn's words during an interview with Filmmakers Newsletter in 1971 when asked what the film was about, Torn explained, "it's about assassination. Norman asked several people to set up phony assassination atte