Norman Mailer - Cultural References

Cultural References

• In the comedy Sleeper, Woody Allen remarks that Mailer "donated his ego to the Harvard Medical School."
• The group Savage Garden mentions him in the song 'Santa Monica' as follows

But on the telephone line I am anyone,

I am anything I want to be.

I could be a supermodel or Norman Mailer,

And you wouldn't know the difference.

Or would you?

• The group GWAR mentions him in the song 'Vlad the Impaler' as follows

Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler

Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a sailor but he's

Vlad, Vlad, Vlad the impaler

Vlad, Vlad, He could have been a

Whaler could have been a Tailor,

He turned out to be Norman Mailer.

This is likely in reference to stabbing his wife.

• In an episode of The Simpsons, Bart is reading Itchy and Scratchy The Movie: The Novel, and it is written by Norman Mailer.
• In remix to the Kanye West song Power, Jay-Z references him, "To be continued, we on that Norman Mailer shit", referring to the last line in Mailer's novel, Harlot's Ghost.

“One’s condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one’s being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others” Norman Mailer quote on Marijuana He is also referenced in the Red Hot Chili Pepper song, Animal Bar, in the line: "Never lovin' more than Mr. Norman Mailer, Turn another page at the Animal Bar."