The miniseries, based on the seminal novel by Norman Mailer, earned star Tommy Lee Jones an Emmy for his portrayal of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer The Executioner ...
The Executioner’s Song first aired in 1982, as a two-part miniseries on NBC (188 minutes overall), earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer, and an Emmy win for star Tommy Lee Jones, who played ...
But Germaine Greer dismissed the endeavor as crass and unseemly, calling Schiller a “superghoul” in her THR book review and carping that Mailer’s tale “collapses into chaotic pathos.” Schiller and ...
The last nine months in the life of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who demanded that he be put to death and was eventually executed by a firing squad in 1977.