I was right at the door of the hallway. And someone said, 'You cannot believe the questions your husband is asking the Israeli ambassador, and he's answering them!' And shortly after that, the doors opened, and out of the elevator . . . stepped Norman Mailer. And Gore was there and Norman punched him in the nose. And everyone looked ? and then went back to their conversation. |
They don't have a cult of personality, of the individual, in China. He was entering a culture in which our idea of celebrity just doesn't exist. |