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  • I'd be interested in learning more about Kirk's time on the Republic and Farragut, and I'd REALLY like to see the styory of Kirk's time on Tarsus IV as a teenager, one of the survivors of Kodos the Executioner's holocaust.

    Young as when the world was new | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • And Mr. Mailer himself made his own history in the building, completing his Pulitzer-Prize winning book, "The Executioner's Song," in a small studio one floor down in 1979.

    Walking Mailer's Brooklyn Plank 2011

  • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, "The Executioner's Song" describes the life of Gary Gilmore, imprisoned for 22 of his 36 years, who murdered two Utah men during petty robberies.

    Literary Tales Of Real-Life Crimes 2011

  • Before Gary Gilmore was executed, Schiller interviewed Gilmore, obtained the rights to his story and gave the material to Mailer, who wrote the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, The Executioner's Song; Schiller directed the made-for­television movie.

    The New Armies of the Night Charles Kearney 2010

  • Before Gary Gilmore was executed, Schiller interviewed Gilmore, obtained the rights to his story and gave the material to Mailer, who wrote the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, The Executioner's Song; Schiller directed the made-for­television movie.

    Charles Kearney: The New Armies of the Night 2010

  • And I love Tommy Lee Jones as an actor (check him out as Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song) but his Two-Face was cartoonish!

    Sound Off: The Dark Knight - What Did You Think?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Mr. Mailer went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes: for 'The Armies of the Night' (1968), a nonfiction account of a 1967 anti-war march on the Pentagon, and 'The Executioner's Song' (1979), which Mr. Mailer described as a 'real life novel,' about executed murderer Gary Gilmore.

    Archive 2007-11-04 Bill Crider 2007

  • I've read Tough Guys Don't Dance (could be the macho man's anthem) and the Executioner's Song ...

    Norman Mailer (1923-2007) ____Maggie 2007

  • Incidentally, my own sitzfleisch builder for law school was Mailer's The Executioner's Song.

    AP English and literary knowledge 2009

  • Norman Mailer, the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song" died Saturday, his literary executor said.

    R.I.P. Norman Mailer archmage 2007

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