CULT U R A L B AROMETER

Norman Mailer

The author, below,

will be awarded a

medal of honour for

lifetime achievement by the National Book Foundation, the organization said yesterday. “ Mailer has long been considered a major figure in post- war American literature whose innovative works of fiction and nonfiction have changed the landscape of American writing,” said the foundation, which presents the National Book Awards. It will present the 2005 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to Mailer on Nov. 16. Known for his biting prose, Mailer won Pulitzer Prizes in 1969 and 1980. Reuters

Originality

What’s next for Brad

Garrett, the

Everybody Loves

Raymond actor who won his third supporting comedic actor Emmy last Sunday? More of the same! Even though Raymond has wrapped its last season, negotiations for a spinoff revolving around Garrett’s woebegone

character, Robert Barone,

are said to have heated

up at CBS during the

past two weeks,

sources said Monday.

Raymond regular

Monica Horan,

who played

Robert

Barone’s

wife Amy, is

being eyed

for the

spinoff.

Reuters