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Radar (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Times Rubs Salt in Vidal's Wounds" width="102" height="110" align="left" style="margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /> All Gore Vidal ever wanted was for everyone in the entire world to acknowledge that his novels were the stuff of phenomenal genius, that each was as good as an organic turkey stuffed with $500-bills on Christmas morning. Over the years, he's ripped the
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西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
W. James Antle III reviews the great man's latest book, which I could not recommend more highly — Conservatives Against Empire . An excerpt: A conservatism that identifies with McGovern more than Reagan, Gore Vidal more than William F. Buckley Jr., and the New Left more than the religious right probably has no political future. Neither does a Kauffmanesque coalition of libertarians and socialists,...
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HotelChatter - (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Globorati reports that Gore Vidal's house in Ravello, Italy--named The Swallow's Nest , will be turned into a luxury hotel. The seven-bedroom manse that belonged to Vidal until five years ago will reopen next spring to hotel guests. The setting of the seven-bedroom mansion is impossibly remote, suspended over a bluff facing the Mediterranean and accessed by only a private pathway winding up the cliffside...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
GORE Vidal, now 82 and confined to a wheelchair, sold his house in Ravello, Italy, five years ago when his lifelong companion, Howard Austen, died. Now, La Rondinaia (The Swallow's Nest), a seven-bedroom mansion on the Amalfi Coast, is being turned...
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Sin City (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it. - Gore Vidal I don’t think I want to be pandered to. How about you? Yeah, this is an election year so some Americans have become… say, just a little extra special, meriting special mention, special attention and a very special empowerment that is, [...]
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rc3.org (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Amanda Simon is blogging the debate over the amendments to the FISA bill for the ACLU. This is a tough one to take, and honestly I don’t expect the next President to make things any better regardless of who it is. Here’s Gore Vidal in September 2000: You have two candidates. Gore is by [...]
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normblog (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
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.Well, some it constricts, and others it doesn't - but rather helps, opens...
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Hot Potato Mash (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Press TV: We hear that Michael Mukasey is going to become the latest of the President's Attorney-Generals to be subpoenaed, this time over his conversations with Bush and Cheney - does this show that Congress is serious about calling the executive to account? ...But there's some very nice films and documentaries about what happened in the year 2000 when Albert Gore won the election for president and...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Filed under: Comedy , Drama , Independent , Casting Have a happy Canada Day with these casting bites! When I heard that Gore Vidal was going to pop up in Shrink , I went into literary fangirl heaven, which quickly became a fan rant . The movie stars Kevin Spacey as a shrink who isn't able to deal with a personal tragedy and becomes a burn-out pothead. And now The Hollywood Reporter posts that some...
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Counago & Spaves (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
In the June issue of Esquire magazine, Gore Vidal reflects on what he's learned from life: I’ve developed a total loathing for McCain, conceited little asshole. And he thinks he’s wonderful. I mean, you can just tell, this little simper of self-love that he does all the time. You just want to kick him. Get rid of religion. It’ll do you no good. Every fool I knew had gone to university. I didn’t think...
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Yale Press Log (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
While you’re staking out prime fireworks real estate at your local Independence Day celebration, pass the hours before nightfall with some entertaining and thought-provoking reading material from Yale Press’s American Icon Series. Gore Vidal’s treatment of our Founding Fathers in...
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s o s (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Gore Vidal Press TV:We hear that Michael Mukasey is going to become the latest of the President's Attorney-Generals to be subpoenaed, this time over his conversations with Bush and Cheney - does this show that Congress is serious about calling the executive to account? Gore Vidal: No, Congress has never been more cowardly, nor more corrupt. All Bush has do is to make sure certain amounts of money go...
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www.texaslos.org (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Although I am not a fan of Gore Vidal, his comments are worth taking note of. He recently commented that “the US is not a republic anymore“. He bases this on the disregard of Constitutional law, suspension of habeus corpus and other events. If you are a student of history, it was under Caesar that [...]
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Mikey Likes It! (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
It's the weekend. I'm blogging on Saturday morning because we stayed up late talking about war resistance (then and now) and the peace movement. It was a lot of fun but at one in the morning, I thought, "It's already Saturday, I'll wait." Then I got up this morning and C.I ., Wally and I went for a run. So let me get started and do a brief post. First up, war resistance . . . Iraq Veterans Against...
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Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
| Peter Klein | Gore Vidal, writing in 1981 in the New York Review of Books: Lately, American biography has fallen more and more into the hands not of writers but of academics. That some academics write very well indeed is, of course, perfectly true and, of course, perfectly rare. When it comes to any one of [...]
