Playbill
October, 1979
This is the month of Halloween, when, for 24 hours, we each have the right to try on a strange face without being called schizoid. But there are those who need no masks to change faces abruptly, horrifically. One such person was the late Gary Gilmore, whose life seemed destined from the start to end before a firing squad. The redoubtable Norman Mailer spent two and a half years researching and writing Gilmore's life story and the result is his forthcoming book, The Executioner's Song (Little, Br...
