Book awards honor Colum McCann, Eggers, Vidal Nov 21, 2009
Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age ... Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Colum McCann wins national award Nov 20, 2009
Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust Wednesday as he contemplated the state of books, while fellow honorary winner Dave Eggers declared that we live in a golden age. The evening's host, Andy Borowitz, joked that the meaning of publishing was "a lot of hard work. Then nothing.". (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
Michele Bachmann crashes the party Nov 12, 2009
" If her mother and women like her could make do with less and spend within their means, Bachmann said, the U.S. government should be able to do the same. When she entered Winona State College, Bachmann was a Democrat and along with her future husband, Marcus, even worked for Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. But she grew disillusioned with the Carter presidency. Reading a tartly written Gore Vidal history book on a train ride back to school one year, something just clicked, she told the... (CNN)
What Liberals Still Don't Get Nov 4, 2009
Levy, a longtime columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz, occupies a place in Israeli culture not dissimilar to that of Noam Chomsky or Gore Vidal in American culture. His main purpose in life is spewing out vaguely coherent pseudo-moralistic rants that rely on the power of defamatory rhetoric and emotional blackmail to make up for their intellectual emptiness. (CBS News)
Exhuming Lorca's Grave — and Franco's Ghosts Oct 30, 2009
"" GORE VIDAL, famed American novelist, on the fiasco surrounding Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski's extradition to the U.S. for an unlawful sexual intercourse conviction For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages ... "" GORE VIDAL, famed American novelist, on the fiasco surrounding Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski's extradition to the U.S. for an unlawful sexual intercourse conviction. (Time.com)
America's First Dr. No Oct 30, 2009
Drawn to the volume by its defiantly Buchananite title and the promise of an interesting forward (Gore Vidal rarely disappoints), by book s end I had been transformed from a fire-breathing leftist into a decentralist Americanist. I had my taste of the forbidden fruit, and I was hooked. (The American Conservative)
What's Still Wrong with Wall Street Oct 30, 2009
Outrage at Wall Street: After Bailout, Bonuses Rise - TIME (Time.com)
Review: 'Amelia' doesn't fly Oct 24, 2009
For a time, the freethinking woman also conducted a love affair with aeronautics pioneer Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), now best known as the father of writer Gore Vidal. Swank delivers long, carefully composed explications of Earhart's unorthodox attitude toward marriage and feminine autonomy, taken from her journal entries, in studied accents somewhere between those of the Kansas plains of Earhart's birth and those of Katharine Hepburn in her most famous trouser-wearing, gumption-gal roles. (CNN)
Death: a nice career move Oct 24, 2009
As Gore Vidal once famously quipped of the death of Truman Capote, ;Good career move. Jackson, by the time of his death on June 25, was essentially a has-been nostalgia act. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Review: 'Amelia' can't overcome obstacle Oct 24, 2009
However, Amelia does get to meet Gore Vidal, the son of her lover Gene Vidal, and she spends an inordinate amount of time calling the boy by name, as if resisting the temptation to address him by his full title, "Little Gore, the future famous novelist.". Swank, who plays Earhart, looks something like her, and she conveys the charm that everyone says Earhart had but that doesn't come across in still pictures. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Stodgy Amelia never gets off the ground Oct 23, 2009
Over the course of Earharts life, we see her fall in love with and marry publisher George Putnam (Richard Gere) and pursue an affair with aviation expert Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor), whos most famous these days as the father of author Gore Vidal. Gere and McGregor are fine actors, but Nair uses them like the expendable males (Zachary Scott, Franchot Tone, et al) who stood back and let Bette Davis and Joan Crawford do all the heavy lifting back in the day. (MSNBC -- News)
Search for Amelia Earhart expands to theaters this week Oct 20, 2009
The filmmakers base this notion on Butler's book; she says she has no doubt that Earhart and Vidal were lovers, and she cites Gore Vidal (then about 10) as one of her sources. Other Amelia experts scoff. (USA Today)
A look at the National Book Awards nominees Oct 16, 2009
Honorary medals will be presented to Dave Eggers and Gore Vidal. Fiction judges picked Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin," Daniyal Mueenuddin's "In Other Rooms, Other Wonders," Jayne Anne Phillips' "Lark te" and Bonnie Jo Campbell's "American Salvage.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Tycoon tales and Darwin get award nominations Oct 15, 2009
Humorist Andy Borowitz will host and honorary medals will be presented to Dave Eggers and Gore Vidal, to be introduced by actress and longtime friend Joanne Woodward. None of the many recent books about Abraham Lincoln, whose bicentennial was celebrated this year, were included. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
The Five Faces of Jerry Brown Oct 14, 2009
That was partly because he was the only candidate remaining besides Bill Clinton, the establishment s man; partly because he enjoyed the early support of heterodox leftists such as novelist Gore Vidal and columnist Alexander Cockburn; and partly because he moved leftward on one major issue, denouncing NAFTA as the campaign entered the Rust Belt. It was also because Brown had made himself a symbol again. (The American Conservative)
Gore Vidals United States of Fury, Johann Hari, The Independent Oct 9, 2009
Gore Vidal's United States of fury - Americas, World - The Independent ... Gore Vidal's United States of fury ... Gore Vidal's brutal manner of criticism hasn't waned. (Harper's Magazine)
Gore Vidal: US will have a dictatorship soon Oct 5, 2009
Gore Vidal: We ll have a dictatorship soon in the US - Times Online ... Gore Vidal: We ll have a dictatorship soon in the US ... The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is rotting away and don t expect Barack Obama to save it. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Novelist Leonard To Receive PEN USA Award Oct 2, 2009
Past recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award include Ray Bradbury, Woody Allen, Betty Friedan and Gore Vidal. PEN USA is a Los Angeles-based professional writers organization. (CBS News -- Entertainment)
Voice: Czars, Hitler and socialists Oct 1, 2009
(Irony) "COMMENT:Errrrr.....excuse me but I believe Gore Vidal is as far left as a person can get before saluting the HAMMER AND SYCLE. " ... isurdoc wrote on Sep 30, 2009 10:14 AM:" abelito wrote on Sep 30, 2009 7:36 AM:Not changed your keboard warrior underware latey, the coments are kinda stinky too.Comments by Gore Vidal: Well have a dictatorship soon in the USThe grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is rotting away and dont expect Barack Obama to save itHows Obama doing?... (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
If Obama is a dictator, how must he be stopped? Oct 1, 2009
Even Gore Vidal calls obama out today and said he expects the Kenyan to impose martial law ... From times UK interview with gore vidal. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Clinton full bottle on the sauce for our Kevin Sep 23, 2009
Gore VIdal, I think, tells of seeing a picture of a bright eyed 16 year old Bill Clinton meeting Jack Kennedy at the White House. Bill is grinning from ear to ear and Vidals caption to the picture. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Magnificent Mencken Aug 28, 2009
Unusually, this literary quarrel cuts across ideological lines, with Mencken s defenders including such strange bedfellows as Joseph Epstein and Gore Vidal, George Weigel and Jack Shafer. His critics run the narrower gamut from Hilton Kramer to Garry Wills. (The American Conservative)
When opinion replaces TV news Aug 18, 2009
He straightened Gore Vidal out when he called him a nazi. He had fought the nazi s himself. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Hitler and Health Care Aug 12, 2009
WASHINGTON -- During live television coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, novelist Gore Vidal famously called William F. Buckley a " crypto-Nazi." To which Buckley famously replied (in addition to other choice words), "Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.". Buckley later apologized. (Townhall.com)
This ‘Shrink’ has serious issues Jul 31, 2009
He has a breakdown on a talk show hosted by Gore Vidal. He holds a stoned pity session with the valet/screenwriter, who s also a relative (a step-godbrother ). (Boston Globe)
It's Too Schmaltzy In The Final Analysis Jul 24, 2009
Henry has a meltdown during an interview with Gore Vidal, shares a hospital room with his drug dealer (Jack Huston) and ends up as part of a Hollywood deal that seems to have been devised by a screenwriting program. SHRINK. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
The dong show: Top 10 moments in male full-frontal Jul 10, 2009
Thirty years later the film remains one of the most bizarre combinations of the highbrow (Gore Vidal wrote a draft of the screenplay) and offensively low-brow ("thwack," "thwack," "thwack") ever put to film. 2. (Salon)
* World News Quick Take Jul 9, 2009
Heymann says the accounts are based on the recollections of a clutch of Kennedy confidants, including Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Pierre Salinger and Arthur Schlesinger. But Salinger, Kennedys press secretary, dismissed the account as bullshit, while Heymanns critics said he has been caught making egregious errors in previous books and has even been accused of fabricating material. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
A Tale of Two Buckleys Jul 7, 2009
Only now, with the invention of Internet video, are we beginning to see the fun of a man who could threaten the likes of Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky with a smack in the Goddam face during political interviews on national television. If Buckley had been known in England, he would not have been revered as an intellectual, but that is because the English do not go in for revering intellectuals. (The American Conservative)
Daily TV and radio guide Jul 3, 2009
Real Time With Bill Maher at 11 p.m. on HBO. Director Ron Howard; author Gore Vidal. Late Show With David Letterman at 11:35 p.m. on Chs. (Boston Globe)
From Illinois to Mars and Back Jun 23, 2009
Like H.L. Mencken, Gore Vidal, Ernest Hemingway, and other original Americans, Bradbury had the advantage, wrote Russell Kirk, of never attending college, which constricts people, in Bradbury s words. He was an autodidact, a library rat who also cherished old people not the self-pitying valetudinarians (though they, too, are made in the image of God, albeit a kvetching deity) but wise wizened elders. (The American Conservative)
Wistful songwriter learns about life on Broadway Jun 19, 2009
A Catered Affair has its origins in a Bette Davis movie with a screenplay by Gore Vidal, and the book had been simmering in Harvey's consciousness for some time. " When Feinstein was starring in the hit musical Hairspray, Bucchino wrote the songs. "I had the luxury of having a year to develop the musical, and 90 per cent of what I wrote ended up in the show," he says. "Harvey is a brilliant artist, and it was a very organic collaboration. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Roger Ebert decries Bill OReillys shrillness Jun 19, 2009
I wonder how much of their playbook comes from those seminal encounters between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal during (wait for it) the 1968 Democratic Convention, at the height of the Vietnam War ... You could almost say that modern hate radio/TV is an ongoing Buckleyan effort to once and for all shut up Gore Vidal. (Harper's Magazine)
Losing our voice May 30, 2009
" If this were true how do they explain the success of, for example, Australia's most successful independent publisher, Allen and Unwin. A large part of its business comes from overseas titles such as the Harry Potter series, but these profits are ploughed back into its outstanding Australian list, featuring such Australian writers as Andrew McGahan, Christos Tsiolkas and Michelle de Kretser. The Coalition argues that there will be a greater diversity of books available under this proposal. But... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'Uncle Dick' Redux: Out of Office, Will Cheney Be GOP's Truman? May 29, 2009
Stuart Symington to playwright and 1960 New York U.S. House hopeful Gore Vidal. I would be proud to appear with the vice president anywhere, anytime, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn (Tex. (Human Events Online)
The Populist Patriotism of Gore Vidal May 25, 2009
Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, Gore Vidal, Doubleday, 272 pages ... Contrary to legend, writes Gore Vidal in Point to Point Navigation, the second (and presumably final) volume of his memoirs, I was born of mortal woman ... The century into which Gore Vidal was born which modest Yankees would not think of calling the American Century; that would be the conceit of the silly son of Chinese missionaries had reached the quarter pole. (The American Conservative)
Push for foreign publishers makes Premier's bad books May 25, 2009
"Does Bob Carr think Big W will stock the complete works of Gore Vidal just for him?" he said. "To trust companies like Coles and Woolworths with the Australian book industry is like inviting the Taliban to babysit the Obama children.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
TV - Three fine movies unavailable on DVD airing this weekend May 15, 2009
Another film unavailable for rental is 1964 s The Best Man, based on the play by Gore Vidal about a sitting Secretary of State and an ambitious young U.S. Senator slugging it out for their party s presidential nomination and the endorsement of a former President. Excellent from start to its surprising finish, the film airs Saturday at 11:00 a.m. CST.. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Judge orders Redmond O'Neal held without bail Apr 16, 2009
com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others. WASHINGTON - This year's White House Easter Egg Roll will be more Fergalicious than ever, with pop diva Fergie headlining the entertainment. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Amazon book rankings restored following 'glitch' Apr 15, 2009
said Gore Vidal, whose book The City and the Pillar had been affected. Why don't they just burn the books. (Globe and Mail)
Amazon: Gay 'Glitch' Fixed Apr 14, 2009
com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others ... com has caused the sales rank to be removed from gay- and/or lesbian-themed books by James Baldwin, Gore Vidal and others. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
The legman on the iron man Apr 6, 2009
Column done, he'd head out for a two-hour lunch, often with boldface names like Gore Vidal, Ted Kennedy, Bill Blass, where he'd gather more fodder. Returning in a generally mellow mood, Herb read the afternoon mail and performed his favorite task of the day: reading the page proof of his column. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The art of oratory Apr 4, 2009
Gore Vidal notes that in ancient Rome the senators were really drama critics, critiquing not only the contents of one another's speeches, but the style of delivery. Former President Bill Clinton agrees. (BBC News -- UK)
The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Kicks Off Its 14(th) Storied Year April 25th - 26th at UCLA Apr 2, 2009
Live Music, Food, Author Panels, Kid-Friendly Entertainment and Appearances by Ray Bradbury, Michael J. Fox, Arianna Huffington, Gore Vidal and Yo Gabba Gabba. Among Others. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The Artist as a Kept Man Mar 25, 2009
Maybe I should have taken as my model the great Gore Vidal, whom JFK appointed to the President s Advisory Council on the Arts. Vidal made it a point never to attend a meeting because I didn t believe that government particularly one as philistine and corrupt as ours should involve itself in the arts in any way. (The American Conservative)
Favorite Quotes About Journalism an... Mar 19, 2009
Favorite Quotes About Journalism and Journalists: Quotations By Napoleon, Gandhi, Gore Vidal, Joseph Pulitzer and More ... Quotations By Napoleon, Gandhi, Gore Vidal, Joseph Pulitzer and More ... "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." Gore Vidal. (Suite101.com)
James Purdy, controversial author of underground classics Mar 14, 2009
Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and Dorothy Parker were among his fans, but Mr. Purdy won few awards and was little known to the general public. He spent his latter years in a one-room Brooklyn apartment, bitterly outside what he called "the anesthetic, hypocritical, preppy, and stagnant New York literary establishment.". (Boston Globe)
A critic's humbling turn on the small screen Mar 7, 2009
Gore Vidal, it is said, advised us never to pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television. Many have learned through brutal experience the spectacular unwisdom of the first admonition. (International Herald Tribune)
The Man Beneath the Hat Feb 13, 2009
The conservative journalist Richard Brookhiser, for example, wrote in the , "On the evidence before us, Lincoln loved men, at least some of whom loved him back," but then added emphatically that Lincoln the wartime leader "is the Lincoln that matters. The rest is biography." Gore Vidal (whose reputation as an essayist, it should be noted, far outstrips his contributions as a historian) wrote in Vanity Fair online that some of Tripp's "evidence," although admittedly "circumstantial," is... (Slate)
Gandhiji inspires me, says Aamir Feb 10, 2009
You can run but you cant ignore the magic thats in the air while he is around. The thinking actor that he is, Aamir Khan doesnt need any introduction. (India Times, India)
Seeking Lincoln, and finding the Lincoln Memorial Feb 9, 2009
WASHINGTON Two hundred years after the birth of Abraham Lincoln, we still seek him in words and in action, in lessons from his life, in reminders of his legend and in pilgrimages to the temple built in his honor (Gaylord Herald Times, MI)
Month robs blacks of part in U.S. history Feb 8, 2009
That s largely because there s no respect for history of any sort in what Gore Vidal has memorably called The United States of Amnesia. What little we know about our nation s past has been transmitted by Hollywood, so schoolchildren know that the Pilgrims invented Thanksgiving, all Indians wore feathers and George Washington Carver invented the peanut. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
A novelist nervously takes turn as dramatist Feb 8, 2009
His drama "Terre Haute" was inspired by the essays Gore Vidal wrote for Vanity Fair about his correspondence with Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and it has played in San Francisco, Edinburgh, the West End in London and now New York. It is running off Broadway at 59E59 Theaters until Feb. 15. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Lincoln Memorial a temple of respect, hope Feb 8, 2009
In his best-selling "Lincoln," novelist Gore Vidal drew upon historical records to conclude that Lincoln was often constipated. Others have theorized that he suffered from chronic depression, mercury poisoning or syphilis. (San Francisco Chronicle)
