Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II—more than any other post-war American writer. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel Armies of the Night won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be The Executioner's Song, the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Mailer is considered an innovator of "creative non-fiction" or "New Journalism", along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism. He was a cultural commentator and critic, expressing his views through his novels, journalism, frequent press appearances and essays, the most famous and reprinted of which is "The White Negro". In 1955, he and three others founded The Village Voice, an arts and politics-oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village. In 1960, Mailer was convicted of assault and served a three-year probation after he stabbed his wife Adele Morales with a penknife, nearly killing her. In 1969, he ran an unsuccessful campaign to become the mayor of New York. Mailer was married six times and had nine children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Mailer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Norman Mailer
  • Popularity: 1.915
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1923-01-31
  • Place of Birth: Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
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Norman Mailer Movies

  • 1981
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    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    7.012 1981 HD

    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

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  • 2000
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    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

    Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale

    6.3 2000 HD

    In 1955, Tobias Schneebaum disappeared into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. He had no guide, no map, and only the vaguest of instructions: Keep...

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  • 1987
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6.1 1987 HD

    A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human...

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  • 2012
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    Norman Mailer: The American

    Norman Mailer: The American

    7 2012 HD

    A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes...

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  • 2021
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    The Capote Tapes

    The Capote Tapes

    6.4 2021 HD

    Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on...

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  • 2005
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    The Outsider

    The Outsider

    6.2 2005 HD

    Nicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or...

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  • 1968
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    Wild 90

    Wild 90

    4.9 1968 HD

    Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of...

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  • 1971
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    Maidstone

    Maidstone

    4.444 1971 HD

    Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the...

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  • 1968
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    Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

    4.8 1968 HD

    Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

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  • 2001
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    New York in the Fifties

    New York in the Fifties

    1 2001 HD

    New York in the Fifties is the story of a unique time and place, when New York was the hotbed of new artistic expressions, free love, drinking, hot...

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  • 1979
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    Town Bloody Hall

    Town Bloody Hall

    5.6 1979 HD

    Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of...

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  • 2014
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    The 50 Year Argument

    The 50 Year Argument

    6.6 2014 HD

    Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of...

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  • 1988
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    Hello Actors Studio

    Hello Actors Studio

    6 1988 HD

    After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional...

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  • 2001
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    L'étrange festival

    L'étrange festival

    1 2001 HD

    Documentary produced and broadcast in the show "Court Circuit" on Arte.

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  • 2019
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    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

    What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

    6.692 2019 HD

    Pauline Kael (1919–2001) was undoubtedly one of the greatest names in film criticism. A Californian native, she wrote her first review in 1953...

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  • 1996
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    When We Were Kings

    When We Were Kings

    7.696 1996 HD

    It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the...

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  • 1968
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    Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?

    Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?

    1 1968 HD

    Portrait of Norman Mailer at the time of the Pentagon demonstrations in 1967, documenting Mailer's involvement and arrest, together with two TV...

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  • 2023
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    How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

    How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

    1 2023 HD

    From Brooklyn beginnings to literary pantheon, Norman Mailer's unorthodox trajectory spans marriages, offspring, and accolades. An unprecedented...

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  • 1970
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    Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

    Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

    1 1970 HD

    One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or...

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  • 1973
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    Year of the Woman

    Year of the Woman

    1 1973 HD

    Utitlising humour, fantasy, animation, poetry and theatrics, Hochman and her crew challenge the male establishment for ignoring the first meeting of...

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  • 2007
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    1 2007 HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

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  • 2000
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    Mailer on Mailer

    Mailer on Mailer

    5 2000 HD

    Norman Mailer frankly discusses American culture, politics, literature, and his own tumultuous life.

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  • 2008
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    Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

    Henry Kissinger: Secrets of a Superpower

    10 2008 HD

    Though Henry Kissinger is often giving short statements to the media, he refuses detailed interviews about his own life. Now he has agreed to answer...

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  • 2005
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    Inside Deep Throat

    Inside Deep Throat

    6.448 2005 HD

    In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep Throat," starring Linda Lovelace. This film would...

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  • 2003
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    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

    1 2003 HD

    A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA...

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  • 2003
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    The Education of Gore Vidal

    The Education of Gore Vidal

    6 2003 HD

    A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his...

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  • 1996
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    Baby Trouble Hole

    Baby Trouble Hole

    1 1996 HD

    Malga Kubiak stars in her exploration of sex and self. One woman's love to her own body interlaced with maggots; mixes x-rated porn. Voyeuristically...

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  • 1985
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    Empire City

    Empire City

    9 1985 HD

    A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...

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  • 2000
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    Oh My America

    Oh My America

    1 2000 HD

    Norman Mailer profiles life in America since the Second World War. Farewell to the Fifties. Mailer fought for his country in the Second World War- an...

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  • 1999
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    Cremaster 2

    Cremaster 2

    6.3 1999 HD

    CREMASTER 2 is rendered as a gothic Western that introduces conflict into the system. On the biological level it corresponds to the phase of fetal...

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  • 2013
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.4 2013 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 2006
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    Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

    Marilyn Monroe: Still Life

    1 2006 HD

    Survey Marilyn Monroe’s life through photographs, from Hollywood stills to candid pictures snapped on the streets of New York.

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  • 1971
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    Maidstone

    Maidstone

    4.444 1971 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Naked and the Dead

    The Naked and the Dead

    5.9 1958 HD

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  • 1987
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    King Lear

    King Lear

    6.1 1987 HD

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  • 2000
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    American Tragedy

    American Tragedy

    10 2000 HD

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  • 1987
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    Tough Guys Don't Dance

    Tough Guys Don't Dance

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Tough Guys Don't Dance

    Tough Guys Don't Dance

    4.6 1987 HD

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  • 1980
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    Marilyn: The Untold Story

    Marilyn: The Untold Story

    8.2 1980 HD

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  • 1968
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    Wild 90

    Wild 90

    4.9 1968 HD

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  • 1971
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    Maidstone

    Maidstone

    4.444 1971 HD

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  • 1968
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    Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

    4.8 1968 HD

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  • 1966
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    An American Dream

    An American Dream

    4.6 1966 HD

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  • 1982
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    The Executioner's Song

    The Executioner's Song

    5.8 1982 HD

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  • 1971
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    Maidstone

    Maidstone

    4.444 1971 HD

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  • 2002
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    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

    Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 1968
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    Wild 90

    Wild 90

    4.9 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Wild 90

    Wild 90

    4.9 1968 HD

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  • 1971
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    Maidstone

    Maidstone

    4.444 1971 HD

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  • 1968
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    Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

    4.8 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

    4.8 1968 HD

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  • 1968
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    Beyond the Law

    Beyond the Law

    4.8 1968 HD

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  • 1947
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    Untitled (Millicent's Dream)

    Untitled (Millicent's Dream)

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Untitled (Millicent's Dream)

    Untitled (Millicent's Dream)

    1 1947 HD

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  • 1952
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    Today

    Today

    5.5 1952 HD

    Today is a daily American morning television show that airs on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It was the first of its genre on...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1959
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    The David Susskind Show

    The David Susskind Show

    5 1959 HD

    The David Susskind Show is an American television talk show hosted by David Susskind. The program began its existence in 1958 as Open End, and was...

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  • 1975
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    PBS News Hour

    PBS News Hour

    5.4 1975 HD

    America's first and longest running hour-long nightly news broadcast known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.

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  • 2000
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    Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls

    7.9 2000 HD

    Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair...

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    7 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a...

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  • 2002
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    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    Gero von Boehm begegnet...

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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  • 1999
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    Maybrit Illner

    Maybrit Illner

    8 1999 HD

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  • 1979
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    NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

    6.5 1979 HD

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  • 1970
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    NDR Talk Show

    NDR Talk Show

    1 1970 HD

    The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman...

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