Vladimir Nabokov's 'Lolita' is published and distributed in the US by G.P. Putnam's Sons. Many believe if it were not for Ted's heartfelt, if not at times off-color, praise for Mailer's Hollywood send-off 'The Deer Park' at a dinner party in New York's Lower East Side held in honor of William Golding, 'Lolita' may never have found a domestic distributor. Unfortunately, Perez and Mailer would only speak for a brief period of time as Mailer's open letter to Castro included beliefs Perez could not comprehend nor appreciate. "I have serious apprehension accepting Mr. Mailer's claim that his is a genuine vision of the future. To praise Señor Castro and state that he, the father of communism in the western hemisphere, gives us hope...I mean sweet Jesus WHO IS US? WHO! IS! US!...I can't continue..." [excerpt from Ted's toast at his nephew Jack Ray's second marriage to Honeywell heiress Janice Varitek].