| 单词 | Vidal |
| 例句 | I was too tired to feel bad for Vidal or anybody; I had my own problems. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Vidal looked at Bodega for a moment before his eyes returned to his wife. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Bodega took the phone out of Vidal’s clutch. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When the waiter walked through the door and brought us coffee, placing the cups carefully on the table as if they were live grenades, Vidal didn’t even bother to look up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Then you know it was Vera who shot John Vidal,” I said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Bodega quickly went over to Vidal, propped his head up, and looked for a pulse. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Vidal looked at Bodega for only a second. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Just say you weren’t there when John Vidal was shot,” was all he said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “It’s all right, Vera. It’s all in the past,” Vidal said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “John Vidal,” he said in a tired, old voice. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z For a second Vidal stared blankly at Vera, lost in a fog of shock and disbelief. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When Vidal saw Vera, he shot up from his seat and headed over to her, but Bodega stopped him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Once there, she ditched the countercultural aesthetic and began to mine popular and commercial culture: she created a series of jazz-influenced pieces, and her dancers got chic outfits and Vidal Sassoon haircuts. Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp 2011-02-01T10:43:36Z He reminisced about his friendship with Mr. Vidal, who died in 2012, and paused to take a call on his cellphone from a male friend. A Starring Role for Hollywood’s Sexual Zelig 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Mailer responded at a Manhattan dinner party in 1977 by throwing a glass of whiskey in Vidal's face, head-butting him and then throwing a punch. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z Mr. Vidal, who once said he had grown up in “the House of Atreus,” detested his mother, whom he frequently described as a bullying, self-pitying alcoholic. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Mr. Vidal, you recently wrote in The New York Review of Books, “When it comes to matters of prose and of fiction at this time and in this place, I am authority.” Interview: Gore Vidal 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Seamlessly knitted into the real details of Vidal’s life, the story opens when the famous writer is 64 years old. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z And even before he opens his mouth in “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” on Broadway, they shower him with applause. James Earl Jones as a Broadway Patriarch, Onstage and Off 2012-05-29T22:03:27Z Me, I would have waited until Vidal had repaired to his Italian villa to schedule the sit-down, for the sake of expensing a reporting trip to the Amalfi Coast. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “Gay fiction before that, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote, was written for straight readers,” White said. Living With Edmund White 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Given Vidal’s sensitivity to any slight, real or imagined, Mr Parini wisely declined an offer that he write his story during his lifetime. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Q. The tone of those interviewed in “Vidal Sassoon” is very loving. Film: From the Annals of Reinvention: Vidal Sassoon 2011-02-04T17:23:52Z "Whatever happened to him, real or imagined, he turned into prose," Vidal wrote. Rare Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T04:08:35Z We had been buying a bottle or two from each vineyard, but from here, we took home three: a Vidal Blanc, a cabernet sauvignon and a port called Southpaw Red. New Jersey Wineries, Like Auburn Road and Bellview 2013-05-02T21:59:15Z Harold Bloom wrote that Mr. Vidal’s imagination of American politics “is so powerful as to compel awe.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Gore Vidal's quick wit and acid tongue made him a sought-after commentator. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z The novel was not universally praised, with some scholars objecting to Vidal's unawed portrayal of the president. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z It was published in 1998 complete with endorsements from David Bowie and Gore Vidal, who were in on the joke. Sotheby's to sell real drawing by fake artist 2011-10-17T10:51:08Z In the downstairs lobby, the hip-hop dancer Solomon Goodwin and the wonderfully focused child performer Mateo Vidals did an elastic little dance of attachment and rejection on a couch. Cora Dance Presents ‘Stories’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z When George founded Zero Press in the mid-1950s, the list included Gore Vidal's collection of stories A Thirsty Evil and the first US edition of Ivy Compton-Burnett's Brothers and Sisters. George Solomos obituary 2010-12-13T18:26:00Z So Martin spent four years writing it himself, soliciting suggestions for updates and modifications from everyone from former collaborators Carl Reiner and Herbert Ross to the author Gore Vidal. Why Is ‘Cyrano’ Still So Potent? Ask Anyone Who’s Loved at All. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z "Gore Vidal was an original," Richards said, hailing his "grace, distinction, style, wit and wisdom". Broadway theatres to dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T11:43:18Z Buckley and Vidal were remarkable characters, at once bona fide intellectuals, true-blue aristocrats and knowing caricatures of those very types. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “You can’t cruise our next president,” Vidal chided jokingly, as he relates in his memoir, “Palimpsest.” ‘Secret City,’ an Epic Narrative History of the Closet in the Capital 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z His good sense and modesty took Vidal to the Old Vic, where he asked them to modify his cockney voice. Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z On the page and as a talk-show guest, Vidal could be counted on to outrage, to make fun of every orthodoxy, to speak truth to power. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z To this last detail Gore Vidal is rumored to have quipped: “Being Franklin, he wanted to get back into circulation as soon as possible.” What’s That? You Want to be Buried How? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z I imagine Gore Vidal will get to heaven and find it terribly bland. Gore Vidal's greatest quotes: leave your tributes here 2012-08-01T09:07:24Z Two of the brightest stars of America’s post-war literary scene, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal were destined to collide. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z An aviation pioneer, Eugene Vidal Sr. went on to found three airlines, including one that became T.W.A. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Spacey also starred in the movie “Gore” about writer Gore Vidal. Netflix severed ties with Kevin Spacey. So what’s next for ‘House of Cards’? 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z Critics were skeptical, but his defenders included longtime friend Gore Vidal. Hollywood ‘fixer’ Scotty Bowers dies at age 96 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Buckley responded with his own slur, and a threat to "sock" Mr. Vidal in the face. ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z “For lots of people, moving just isn’t an option right now,” said Karen Vidal, a partner in the Los Angeles firm Design Vidal. More space, better resale value: What to know about finishing your basement 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The withering Mr. Hitchens admiring Mr. Vidal's vintage putdowns even in the midst of putting him down - an appropriate way to remember writers who lived for battle. ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z The two characters’ rivalry lacked weight so Vidal suggested that Messala hoped secretly to rekindle a boyhood romance between them. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z For Vidal, fatherhood is a blessing, and hip-hop a lifestyle not limited to the hard streets of his youth. Review | Why do so many books to inspire dads end up making them feel inadequate? 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Never short of self-confidence, Vidal would attribute the popularity of The Best Man to the brilliance of the script. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z Published 30 years ago, but only recently available as a downloadable audiobook, Gore Vidal’s great novel is elegantly knowledgeable, gossip rich, and, alas, as timely as it ever was. Review | The best new audiobooks include a 30-year-old novel that’s as timely as ever 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “Vidal Sassoon: The Movie” opens with a blast of hyperbole from an assembly of disembodied voices: “I think it’s impossible to overestimate the importance of Vidal Sassoon.” | 'Vidal Sassoon: The Movie': ?60s Snipper Extraordinaire 2011-02-11T02:00:24Z Vidal, who died last month, was always better known for novels, essays, screenplays, quips and controversies. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z Adams is asked what he thought of Vidal's new novel about Lincoln. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z It helps that the personalities involved in those 10 TV debates were William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, two richly articulate men of any dramatist’s dreams. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z But her look was completed by the liberating geometric haircuts of Vidal Sassoon My first encounter with Vidal Sassoon was a tremendous shock. Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z Vidal suggested Capote had "raised lying into an art – a minor art". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Even when Paul Theroux delivered a favorable review of a Vidal novel in the Times Book Review, it was quickly dismissed as tainted, just evidence that “ ‘Theroux is a smart careerist. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Broadway will dim its lights tonight for Gore Vidal, who died at the age of 86 this week. Seven days on stage: Edinburgh fringe on fine form 2012-08-03T16:03:28Z On Gore Vidal, Dec. 15, 1981, asking for him to do something for Interview Magazine. 11 gossipy things Andy Warhol said about the writers of the 1970s 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Buckley mocks Vidal’s failed screenplays and produces a note from Robert F. Kennedy, killed weeks earlier, suggesting that Vidal be deported to Vietnam. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Vidal couldn’t have foreseen it because he still saw Christianity as a kind of ineluctable force in America, particularly among small-town conservatives, and because Rand’s “philosophy” couldn’t have been more anti-Christian. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Parini was close enough to Vidal to know when not to take him at his word. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Foucault made a similar point in a different style, insisting that gay identity was a historical artefact rather than a fundamental reality, but Vidal's position was more libertarian than radical. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z Both unsuccessfully ran for political office, Mailer for Mayor of New York, Vidal for the US Senate. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" melds one-on-one interviews with the celebrated writer, who died last year, with commentary by his closest friends, including his nephew, filmmaker Burr Steers, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Documentaries spotlight familiar faces at Tribeca festival 2013-04-18T15:59:26Z How many people under age 50 even recognize the name Gore Vidal? Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z US author Gore Vidal, who wrote the original script, was so keen to distance himself from the infamous film, that he took legal action and had his name removed from the project. 2010-01-29T13:27:00Z In recent years, Vidal wrote the novel "The Smithsonian Institution" and the nonfiction best sellers "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace" and "Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z “I guess Gore left the country because he felt underappreciated here,” Truman Capote said of Vidal, whom he visited in Rome. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Despite Vidal’s prodigious literary imagination and Buckley’s editorial prowess, both were dinosaurs of the drawing room whose pseudo-patrician affectations rendered them instant parodies of intellectuals. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Easily the best, most entertaining book about Gore Vidal is his 1995 memoir “Palimpsest.” ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Once, Mr. Parini writes, he asked Vidal whether it would be O.K. for two characters in his novel-in-progress to spend 20 or 30 pages discussing Kierkegaard. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z For his trouble, shortly after the book’s publication, the New York Times announced on the pages of its books section that it would no longer lower itself to mention, much less review, another Vidal novel. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The problem, according to the filmmakers, is that Buckley and Vidal let their personalities and personal enmities take precedence over the issues and the forum and let the high-minded possibilities at hand degenerate into spectacle. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Regardless of their vast intelligence, Buckley and Vidal performed on ABC not to gratify intellect but to signify it, like the orotund televised spokesman for classical-music highlights. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Buckley responded by calling Mr. Vidal a “queer,” and the two were in court for years. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z After the death of his nemesis in 1984, Vidal insulted Capote one last time, saying his death had been "a good career move". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z In addition to playing near the "Mona Lisa," the gents who once looked like walking advertisements for Vidal Sassoon have been playing festivals around the world the last couple of years. Duran Duran comes back with new album, 'All You Need is Now' 2010-12-28T00:15:07Z The wait has allowed the author, whose friendship with Vidal began in the 1980s, to produce a portrait that is both affectionate and balanced. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Tharp, at that time a fascinatingly manic presence onstage, got a Vidal Sassoon precision mop. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Vidal Blanc is a hybrid grape popular for icewines, as well as more and more table wines in the Northeast. 2010-01-28T21:00:00Z It was Vidal’s life, his exuberance, his whole spirit. Saying Farewell to Vidal Sassoon 2012-10-15T13:58:47Z After Midge Decter, in 1980, published a homophobic essay in Commentary magazine, which was edited by her husband, Norman Podhoretz, Mr. Vidal responded with a withering essay titled “Pink Triangle and Yellow Star.” Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z The film opens with an image of Vidal, cane at his side, sitting on the tomb in which he will be buried. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Unfortunately a thin veneer of currency isn’t sufficient to revitalize a drama that feels positively quaint, despite Mr. Vidal’s winking cynicism about the political arena and his undeniable prescience about future trends in American politicking. Theater Review: ?Gore Vidal?s The Best Man? at Gerald Schoenfeld Theater 2012-04-02T02:17:15Z The film follows the televised conversations between Vidal and Buckley, who already had developed an enmity for one another. Legendary Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley rivalry coming to screens 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Although one can easily find connections between Vidal and previous American writers from Mark Twain and Henry James to H L Menken or Edmund Wilson, he remained sui generis – an American original. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z “This show is important because it represents, first and foremost, family. It represents a beautiful, healthy, functional family,” Vidal said. Fans turn up heat for ABC’s canceled ‘Baker and the Beauty’ 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z “Myra Breckenridge,” Mr. Vidal’s own favorite among his books, was a campy black comedy about a male homosexual who has sexual reassignment surgery and turns into a woman. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z There's no doubting how Michael Gordon, founder of hair company Bumble & Bumble and producer of the upcoming documentary "Vidal Sassoon: The Movie," feels about his subject. A blunt cut of Vidal Sassoon 2011-02-03T17:20:04Z By focusing on Buckley and Vidal's rivalry, "Best of Enemies" recalls a time when authors were important cultural commentators. Legendary Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley rivalry coming to screens 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z "We share a plot, and I'll be there," Vidal told an interviewer. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Vidal entered the fray with an article suggesting there was "a logical progression" from Henry Miller to Mailer to Charles Manson. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z The former meant that you couldn't afford to live on nothing; the latter that, in the formulation of Gore Vidal that Amis cites, nobody's feelings are more authentic, and thus more important, than anyone else's. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z Then she called me and said, “Vidal, could you straighten my hair out?” Film: From the Annals of Reinvention: Vidal Sassoon 2011-02-04T17:23:52Z A more disastrous Roman film adventure for Gore came when Bob Guccione of Penthouse magazine commissioned him to write what was to be called Gore Vidal's Caligula. Gore Vidal's Italian films: Roma, Caligula and a gay Ben-Hur 2012-08-01T14:30:01Z He closes with a horrific account of the aged, wheelchair-bound Vidal coming to a Key West literary weekend and proceeding to embarrass himself and crudely insult everyone. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z In 2010, Christopher Hitchens wrote that he believed the aftermath of 9/11 had "accentuated a crackpot strain" in Mr. Vidal "that gradually asserted itself as dominant." ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z The novel was completed as Vidal waited for discharge in the Gulf of Mexico and published in the summer of 1946. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z There is the file drawer, ravine-deep, filled with press clippings and interviews by “some pretty good writers,” as he likes to point out: Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Kenneth Tynan and the illustrious like. At 90, Jerry Lewis’s Mouth Runneth Over 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z In more ways than one, Vidal Sassoon was synonymous with cutting-edge style dating back to the 1960s. Sassoon's cutting-edge history on big screen 2011-03-18T17:27:10Z I shared a flat with Vidal Sassoon and got free haircuts. Michael Caine: ‘Boy, did we have fun…’ 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z His father, Gene Vidal, served briefly in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration and was an early expert on aviation. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z He was carrying, face up, a copy of Gore Vidal’s “History of the National Security State.” Julian Assange and the History of Celebrities Wielding Books 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Around the corner at La Mercerie, a former haberdashery reinvented as a restaurant two years ago, Laura Vidal and her colleagues are preparing to reopen this weekend. 'We will survive': life after lockdown in resilient Marseille 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z His Gift Was His Song The bride’s uncle, Rafael Berenguer Vidal, composed an original musical composition, “In the Library,” dedicated to the couple as a wedding gift. The Long Road to Recovery, and Then the Altar 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z “The best docudramas engage in a quest for understanding: on a experiential level, on a social level, on a political level too,” says Vidal. Real-life terror: is it exploitative to use human suffering for cinematic thrills? 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z As often with Vidal, the remark about politics compensating the plain was double-edged. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z We’d spend a summer at Gore Vidal’s house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare” when she was a baby. Gaby Hoffmann, the Eloise of the Chelsea Hotel 2013-07-08T18:56:11Z Mailer punched Vidal at a party, prompting Vidal to retort: "Words fail Norman again." The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Vidal was, in short, brilliantly provocative, often right and completely insufferable. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z But Underwood says all this in the manner of Gore Vidal holding court at a New York soiree, so you almost don’t notice the barbs go in. 'You made this bed, America!' How House of Cards turned the tables on us 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Really, how can you go wrong with a novelist who was a particular favorite of both Evelyn Waugh and Gore Vidal? Michael Dirda reviews “The Informed Air: Essays by Muriel Spark” Mr. Vidal’s lifelong interest in politics began to stir back then, and from his grandfather, an America Firster, he probably also inherited his unwavering isolationist beliefs. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Gore Vidal, left, with Federico Fellini during the filming of Roma. Gore Vidal's Italian films: Roma, Caligula and a gay Ben-Hur 2012-08-01T14:30:01Z Cowards emerged with pride when Gore Vidal wrote America’s first mainstream novel offering a man-on-man love affair as natural and normal, “The City and The Pillar,” in 1948. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z Usually I enjoy Campbell, but this felt like art to be taught, as Gore Vidal said of the modern novel, rather than to be enjoyed. Venice Biennale: how much is that fox in the mini-mart? 2013-06-02T18:30:01Z Southern ended a 1962 letter to Gore Vidal, “You are often in my thoughts, and my best to your darling sister, dear Nina.” Review: In ‘Yours in Haste and Adoration,’ Terry Southern’s Thoughts Spill Out 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z Heavily seasoned with epigrams worthy of Oscar Wilde, this entertaining documentary portrays Vidal as a pessimistic political prophet with streaks of paranoia and misanthropy, but a truth teller nonetheless. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Vidal appeared cold and cynical on the surface, dispassionately predicting the fall of democracy, the American empire's decline or the destruction of the environment. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Netflix has said it also will not release the film “Gore,” in which Spacey plays the late U.S. writer Gore Vidal. Kevin Spacey to be erased from Sony film about Getty kidnapping: reports 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z From the novelist’s point of view, participation in what Gore Vidal used to call “book chat” is not just a public service, but an act of self-interest. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z Despite his prolific output as novelist and playwright, many critics considered Vidal's witty and acerbic essays his best work. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Mr. Austen died that year, and in “Point to Point Navigation,” his second volume of memoirs, Mr. Vidal recalled that Mr. Austen asked from his deathbed, “Didn’t it go by awfully fast?” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Graham sufficiently connects the vitriol between Buckley and Vidal with the contempt, and worse, that dominates the airwaves now, but you slightly recoil when someone belabors a point. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z The Boys Clubs of America and the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center of Los Angeles were among the causes he supported through his Vidal Sassoon Foundation. Hairstyling Pioneer Vidal Sassoon Dies at 84 in LA 2012-05-09T20:18:46Z “You’ve got to do something about your hair,” Mr. Vidal told him. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z But Vidal saw himself foremost as a man of letters. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z No liberal of comparable eloquence has taken Vidal’s place in the public square, although Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011, deemed himself Vidal’s heir apparent, until the two men had a falling out. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In reality, the record shows that unlike Vidal’s fine wine political positioning, Buckley’s retrograde views suffer decay and infirmity with each passing year. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z One can never guess which writers will survive the winnowing of time, but Vidal has as good a chance for survival as any writer of his generation. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Directed by Tinto Brass, scripted by Vidal and co-founded by Penthouse magazine, Caligula wallowed, generally without clothes, in the scurrilous life and times of the debauched Roman emperor. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z Vidal wrote not just one but two autobiographies, ran twice for public office, and practically took up residence on television for a while, in settings both relaxed and fraught. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Live performances of “Inherit the Windbag” — a play about the matching of wits between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley by Petri, a Washington Post columnist — are not assured by the August target date. D.C. area theaters are mixed on reopening this year 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Born in 1925 at the hospital of the US military academy where his father was a flying instructor, Vidal entered a family of privilege and power. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z Even Jason Epstein, Mr. Vidal’s longtime editor at Random House, once admitted that he preferred the essays to the novels, calling Mr. Vidal “an American version of Montaigne.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z By virtually any metric, Gore Vidal was a difficult man. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The streaming giant similarly decided not to move forward with a film starring Spacey as Gore Vidal. House of Cards to resume production with Robin Wright as lead 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z The only Vidal that truly matters can be found in his books. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Mewshaw’s most recent book is “Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship With Gore Vidal.” An Algerian novelist takes on Camus in ‘The Meursault Investigation’ 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Paul Newman starred in "The Left-Handed Gun," a film adaptation of Vidal's "The Death of Billy the Kid." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z But anyone who relishes elegant and incisive writing and speech will be glad that Vidal was fated to explain, rather than practise, politics. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z That observation may be the most shocking moment in “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,” Nicholas Wrathall’s admiring documentary portrait of Vidal, who died in 2012 at 86. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Best Play Revival There may be four nominees — “Death of a Salesman,” “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man,” “Master Class” and “Wit” — but here there is no contest. ‘Newsies’ Versus ‘Once,’ and Other Tony Competitions 2012-06-07T22:01:22Z Even when Vidal was alive — he died in 2012 at 86 — he complained that he never got the literary credit he deserved, and his peers were keenly aware of it. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z About the lesser talents who have won the prize, I like Gore Vidal’s observation that one should “never underestimate Scandinavian wit.” The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z And the girl, Emily Vidal, is a lot more interesting than the sum of her spoiled suburban parts. Books of The Times: A Smart-Aleck Girl With a Gimlet-Eyed View 2011-02-23T15:27:12Z It was Vidal, after all, who formulated the conspiracy theorist’s mantra: “Anybody who’s not paranoid is not in full possession of the facts.” Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Vidal thought he had found the perfect patron: "Just think of Bob Guccione as one of the Warner brothers," he told McDowell. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z Playwright David Hare said today that Vidal didn't have "a fictional bone in his body", but that he was a "genius essayist". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z The cosmopolitan classicism of Vidal injected his contribution to political and literary culture with wisdom. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z But, then, Vidal couldn’t have thought so many Christians would abandon Jesus’ teachings so quickly for Rand’s. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Photograph: AP Gore Vidal, the American writer, media pundit, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died at the age of 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin poise. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Mr. Vidal was fond of drink and alleged that he had sampled every major drug, once. 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z Vidal's critics disparaged his tendency to formulate an aphorism rather than to argue, finding in his work an underlying note of contempt for those who did not agree with him. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Gore Vidal said of both the Bowles, “They were famous among those who were famous.” The Madness of Queen Jane 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Netflix also said it would not release the film “Gore,” in which Spacey plays the late U.S. writer Gore Vidal. Sony pulls Spacey film from festival, going ahead with December release 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z The real purpose of Schuyler’s fictional existence is to serve as Vidal’s eyes and ears, to notice the cultural changes that would strike a man who can remember shaking Andrew Jackson’s hand in his youth. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z In the 1960s, the budding executive brought London stylist Vidal Sassoon to Los Angeles to show off the “bob” haircut he had created for British designer Mary Quant, and the look took off. Paula Kent Meehan, philanthropist and founder of Redken empire, dies at 82 “At least half of ‘Sexus’ consists of tributes to the wonder of Henry Miller,” Vidal writes. “Star Wars” doesn’t have a heroine problem: Arguing over whether Rey’s a “Mary Sue” is missing the point 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Vidal’s drinking worsens — one night, unable to open the cap on some expensive scotch, he bashes the bottle against his fireplace and then chugs straight from the jagged neck. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Please leave your own tributes to Vidal here – and remind us of your favourite quotations from the author, if you can't spot them here. Gore Vidal's greatest quotes: leave your tributes here 2012-08-01T09:07:24Z Netflix has said it also will not release the film “Gore,” in which Spacey plays the late U.S. writer Gore Vidal. Kevin Spacey to be erased from Sony film about Getty kidnapping: reports 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Underneath their ostensible objectivity there was a value default — an unstated moral consensus, which is the one Vidal cited and the one to which most Americans subscribed throughout most of our history. Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Vidal is a plum role, and the wonderful Edwards is suitably dapper and silver-tongued, not least when on the offensive: “Do you read?” he asks Buckley. Review: In ‘Best of Enemies,’ a TV Duel Becomes a Theater Gem 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Netflix also severed ties with Spacey’s other projects, including a movie about late author Gore Vidal. Netflix takes $39 million charge after Kevin Spacey scandal 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Buckley and Vidal may rest in peace, but the rest of us have stayed plastered. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith said the private Vidal was kinder than people imagined, and Ms. May suggested that beneath his cynicism he was an idealist at heart. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Vidal, as so often with words, went one better: “For me, it’s looking out of the window and not being appalled.” Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But the pièce de résistance is “The Swallow’s Nest,” a chapter set in Gore Vidal’s cliffside villa on the Italian coast. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z To patrician Gore Vidal, I became Comrade Dirda, and to this day I regret passing up a repeated invitation to visit him in Italy. Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s possible, in fact, that Vidal will live on most vividly not on the page but on YouTube. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Vidal ran for elected office twice: once for Congress in 1960, in upstate New York; once for the Senate in California in 1982. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Her most recent Broadway appearance was in a 2012 revival of “The Best Man,” a play by Gore Vidal. Angela Lansbury wins the lifetime achievement Tony. Read her Times reviews over the decades. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Esquire reviewed the Carson season that year and said he should bring back Gore Vidal and the bellhop.” William Price Fox, Southern Novelist, Is Dead at 89 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z To promote the book, which Mr. May wrote with a photography historian and conservator, Elena Vidal, he has embarked on a tour considerably more sedate than the ones he used to know. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May?s Photo Recovery 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z Trimble was his “ideal brother,” his “other half,” Mr. Vidal said, the only person with whom he ever felt wholeness. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Dr. Lyubomirsky writes: “It appears that unhappy individuals have bought into the sardonic maxim attributed to Gore Vidal: ‘For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself. ... Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z Vidal was named Eugene Luther Gore Vidal after his father, Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal, but he "got rid" of his first two names at 14. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z But his reverence for the late president led Gore Vidal to dismiss "A Thousand Days" as a "political novel." Petraeus affair and the role of biographers 2012-11-14T18:16:03Z He also recalled that he first met Mr. Vidal in March 2003, when he was contemplating a run for the presidency, and asked for advice. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Gore Vidal, who wrote the television play on which the movie was based, once wrote that “The Left Handed Gun” was “a film that only someone French could like.” Film: Arthur Penn, a Director Attuned to His Country 2010-10-09T08:13:00Z Vidal considered himself a man not so much of the left, but of antiquity. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Vidal never tired of telling us of his famous friends. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Gore Vidal lucidly describes the C.I.A.-sponsored coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, in 1953. Movie Review: ‘Valentino’s Ghost,’ a Documentary by Michael Singh 2013-05-16T22:47:11Z Holleran — unlike, say, Truman Capote or Gore Vidal in the generation before him — has never tailored his writing to a straight audience. Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Like Vidal, Piñera was known for his caustic wit and acerbic tongue. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z “Mr. Vidal shows us how a dirty political fight can destroy our best presidential aspirants,” Bosley Crowther wrote in his New York Times review at the time. What’s on TV This Week: ‘This Is Us’ and ‘The Haunting’ 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Vidal manages inextricably to mix the fictive and the historical, the social and the legendary. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z When he visits Gore Vidal in Italy, he admires Mr. Vidal’s cliffside house but also reports Erica Jong’s observation that it resembles “Hitler’s eagle’s nest at Berchtesgaden.” Books of The Times: In the Fast Company of Women on the Edge 2011-08-04T22:16:36Z It ran for 520 performances on Broadway before it, too, became a successful film, in 1964, with a cast headed by Henry Fonda and a screenplay by Mr. Vidal. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Netflix also said it would not release the film “Gore,” in which Spacey plays the late U.S. writer Gore Vidal. Sony pulls Spacey film from festival, going ahead with December release 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Writing in The Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt said, “Mr. Vidal gives us an interpretation of our early history that says in effect that all the old verities were never much to begin with.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z “I think Pablo wanted more of a nasty movement that I wasn’t apparently quite able to find,” Vidal said with a laugh, in an interview. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Mailer also reportedly headbutted Vidal before a TV show after Vidal compared him to infamous killer Charles Manson. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Vidal is said to have replied "Lost for words again, Norman?" Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z In the same week that the anglophone world mourned one of its literary giants, Gore Vidal, it is perhaps serendipitous that in Latin America we're celebrating the centenary of an author of equal stature. A hundred years of Virgilio Piñera, l'enfant terrible of Cuban literature 2012-08-03T17:09:31Z There are startling literary references and flourishes,” Vidal wrote. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z “I borrowed a few books from him as an excuse to stay in touch,” said Ms. Vidal de la Blache, a French citizen who was born in Lille, France. A Marvel ‘Nerd’ Couldn’t Resist Her or a Spider Man Movie 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z According to Vidal, the New York Times waged a campaign throughout the 1950s to obliterate him as a novelist by refusing to review his work. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z Suffering a bad case of frostbite, Vidal was invalided back to the States, where he finished the novel in less than a year. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z In the book's introduction, Williams' friend Gore Vidal wrote that the stories were essentially a fictionalized diary for Williams, who died in 1983. Rare Tennessee Williams story published 2014-03-25T04:08:35Z It is not enough to merely enumerate the ideas Vidal helped introduce to American culture, or telegraph the time jumping bravery and brilliance of Vidal’s innovative artistry, but that is a good place to begin. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Vidal is only now beginning to sell outside of Spain, first in Paris and Milan. Can fashion launch an actress to the A-list? Meta Golding’s red carpet strategy 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Vidal "meant everything to me when I was learning how to write and learning how to read," Dave Eggers said at the 2009 National Book Awards ceremony, where he and Vidal received honorary citations. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z The scandal which surrounded the publication of his third novel, The City and the Pillar, created a squall powerful enough to blow Vidal's promising literary career definitively off course. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z The directors interviewed Vidal in 2010, two years before his death, at his Hollywood home, where he initially accused them of being Buckley partisans. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Martin Amis, who has little time for Vidal the novelist, recognised the glory of the witty, learned, aphoristic essays. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z “She always had the most interesting writers mixed up with troublemakers. She had Daniel Ellsberg with Adlai Stevenson, or an ex-general with war protesters. Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer had a fistfight there.” Jean Stein, Who Chronicled Wealth, Fame and Influence, Dies at 83 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Or, as Jacques Vidal of Know More Games puts it, virtually under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, “a never-ending neighborhood that runs north and south through Brooklyn.” Art Trek: A Critic’s Picks in Brooklyn, an Embattled Utopia 2014-04-03T22:22:25Z "As far as I'm concerned," Vidal retorted, "the only pro- or crypto-Nazi I can think of is yourself." The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z It's not the immortality Vidal would have wanted, but junior immortality is a lot better than no immortality at all. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z And Mr. Cavett read some remarks sent by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who called Mr. Vidal “one of a kind” and “a true American original.” Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Ms. Johnson, hiding her normalcy under a stark Vidal Sassoon haircut and layers of fake eyelashes, became its star designer. Betsey Johnson: A Role Model, Still 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z "Burr," "Lincoln" and other Vidal books have sold out on Amazon.com, a far more striking response than to the deaths of such peers as Mailer and William Styron. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z "I was in the middle of take five when all hell seemed to break loose behind us," Vidal recalled. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Then Gore Vidal pointed out that he's probably the most honest politician that we ever had in the sense that he always told you what the truth was. Dick Cavett dishes on showbiz greats 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z It also makes one recall an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa holds up a book entitled Tome by Gore Vidal. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z With tragic foresight, Vidal called the job of the presidency "literally killing" and worried that "Kennedy may very well not survive." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Photograph: /AP Although he achieved considerable wealth and fame and a secure place in dictionaries of quotations, Gore Vidal failed in the two major ambitions of his life. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z Her latest Broadway appearance was in a 2012 revival of “The Best Man,” a play by Gore Vidal. Angela Lansbury Will Receive Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z To give an example, Vidal was convinced that the New York Times was out to get him. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z "I am not at heart a playwright," Vidal explained at the time, with typical candour. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z The outcome summons flashbacks for Vidal, who remembers eating similarly flavored chicken with his family on Sundays, when their Barcelona restaurant was closed, and at a summer house on the Costa Brava, with potato chips. Review | The new Boqueria in Penn Quarter knows how to throw a party, starting with roast chicken 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “He agreed to play the frustrated lover,” Vidal said. From Sean Connery to Harrison Ford: actors who secretly played roles gay 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Vidal responds that many Americans opposed the war and thought that “the Vietcong are correct in wanting to organize their country in their own way politically.” Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Vidal was too forthright and opinionated to be a great writer of fiction, where many viewpoints have to be represented. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z “Julian,” which some critics still consider Mr. Vidal’s best, was a painstakingly researched historical novel about the fourth-century Roman emperor who tried to convert Christians back to paganism. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z You don’t need a great deal of descriptive power to bring Vidal or his world to life. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Vidal was uncanny in the way he linked his various heroes and heroines to history and to each other. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Vidal continued to write satirical novels, alternating them with his American historical novels. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Producer Jeffrey Richards said there would be an announcement before each show that it was being dedicated to Vidal; at curtain calls, photos of Vidal would be shown on the monitors. Broadway theatres to dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T11:43:18Z Vidal always rejected attempts to categorise people by sexual orientation, arguing that: "There are no homosexual people, only homosexual acts." Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z Inside it, Schuyler finds “the old red hangings and tobacco-stained rugs have been replaced by a delicate gray décor with hints here and there of imperial gilt” — ornamental foreshadowings of Vidal’s preoccupation with empire. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The highly public clashes between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr., two vehemently opposed public intellectuals, is explored in a new documentary. Legendary Gore Vidal-William F. Buckley rivalry coming to screens 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring Gore Vidal, who died at the age of 86 on Tuesday, wore many hats: Novelist. ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z What is already beyond doubt, though, is Vidal’s importance as a “public intellectual” with a wonderfully contrarian instinct. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z The Golden Age brings the sequence full circle, revisiting the Roosevelt era, when Vidal himself was on the scene as a young man in Washington. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Vidal called it an initiation into the body, into the movement. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z "It gets done somewhere every four years without fail," Vidal once told me in an interview. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z Vidal spent the 1950s working as a screenwriter for television and the movies, writing over 30 original scripts and notching up two Broadway hits: Visit to a Small Planet and The Best Man. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z History, as Mr Parini points out, will give its verdict on Vidal the novelist. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But a more reliable method is to choose a subject that excites cyclical interest – a tactic demonstrated by the late Gore Vidal. How to write a bestselling play 2012-08-22T12:27:28Z On Friday Mr. May was to play undoubtedly the tour’s most august venue, the , discussing “A Village Lost and Found” with Ms. Vidal as part of the museum’s lecture series. Village Green, Preserved: Brian May?s Photo Recovery 2010-07-23T23:25:00Z Mewshaw’s 20th book, “Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal,” will be published in January. Book World: Denis Johnson’s ‘The Laughing Monsters’ offers more than formulaic thrill Netflix also shelved a nearly completed Gore Vidal biopic in which Mr. Spacey played the lead role, one involving a relationship with a young man. Kevin Spacey Cut From ‘All the Money in the World,’ With Role Recast 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Producer Jeffrey Richards said there will be an announcement before each show for the next week that it is being dedicated to Vidal. Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T14:49:08Z But it was on the level of Gore Vidal telling a story about having lunch with Eleanor Roosevelt. Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Salon She Left Behind 2011-10-21T20:35:56Z Although Vidal’s life with his no-nonsense, gruffly sensible companion Howard Austen is the focus of “Sympathy for the Devil,” the book, like any memoir, also conveys a partial portrait of its author. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Before his army career Vidal Sr was an athlete who won a silver medal in the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z When Vidal’s friend arrives, he’s accompanied by a stunning young man named Maurice, who is clearly a parasite looking for a more famous host. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z In addressing her posture, Vidal focused on opening her chest, which in turn paved the way to showing her tasting freedom, even being vulnerable. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Asked what he thought his legacy might be, Vidal replies in a tone of withering indifference, “I couldn’t care less.” ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal wrote him into his roman à clef “The Golden Age.” Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z How exactly Vidal and Buckley argue — via lofty diction, engorged vocabularies and patrician inflection — would seem to make them impossible for today’s TV, despite the lasting legacy of their debating tactics. The Buckley vs. Vidal debates: The original knock-down, drag-out TV 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z That said, Vidal lived for 53 years with former advertising executive Howard Austen. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z At one point, Mr. Vidal wondered if what he said had hurt Mr. Mailer's feelings, to which Mr. Mailer responded: "It hurts my sense of intellectual pollution." ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z Vidal, inspecting the idiocy of this belief, concludes, “There is something strangely infantile in this obsession with dice-loaded physical courage when the only courage that matters in political or even real life is moral.” Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The documentary "Vidal Sassoon: The Movie," about the legendary British hairstylist, continues at 3 and 5 p.m. Outdoor-movie season is about to go dark 2011-08-25T18:16:03Z Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little", writing: "RIP Gore Vidal, a great intellectual of our time. Gore Vidal's greatest quotes: leave your tributes here 2012-08-01T09:07:24Z Vidal said he wants to be cremated and have his ashes placed next to his longtime companion. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Oliver’s claim was debunked after a body camera video showed the car Edwards was in, driven by his stepbrother Vidal Allen, driving away from the police officers, not toward them. Justice for Jordan Edwards: Murder conviction for Texas cop feels like a miracle 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z A walking rejection of the claim that America has no class system, Vidal had the manner of an aristocrat. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z The series, of one-night events that benefit the Actors Fund, begins on Wednesday night with Gore Vidal’s political drama “The Best Man.” More Plays, More Stars and More Women in Latest ‘Spotlight’ Series 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z The comic performer Will Sasso and the actress Christina Vidal play a married couple with young children in this new sitcom. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘First Cow’ and ‘The Line’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Even Vidal’s boastful embrace of pansexuality was something of a pose, Parini says: He was gay, though he hated the word, and wished he were otherwise. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z On the panel of a design prize last year, Heatherwick was instrumental in giving a special award to hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, who died this month. Thomas Heatherwick: the new Da Vinci of design 2012-05-18T09:00:00Z RIP Robert Hughes, scourge of phony Art & absurd demagoguery, & up there with Vidal & Hitchens as one of the great talkers of our times. Remembering Robert Hughes: What did he do for art? 2012-08-07T09:40:26Z Auden, Gore Vidal and poet Robert Lowell contributed to the debut issue — and gave them the freedom to engage with ideas and social problems as they saw fit. Robert Silvers, a founding editor of New York Review of Books, dies at 87 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z One TV play — Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid, starring Paul Newman and originally directed by Robert Mulligan — became Penn's first feature film. Appreciation: Arthur Penn, the Miracle Worker of 'Bonnie and Clyde' 2010-09-30T18:15:00Z There can scarcely have been a war zone or salon in the world untroubled by Hitchens' attendance, his ubiquity matched only by his prodigious output, moving Gore Vidal to anoint him his "dauphin". The boor's head 2010-05-21T23:03:00Z As one of the great photographers said to me after a session: "Of course, Vidal Sassoon invented the way you look." Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z The real traitors, Vidal would respond, were the upholders of his class. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z It's like being at an insider's cocktail party where the most delicious gossip about the rich and powerful is being dished by smart people, such as Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, Arthur Miller and Dennis Hopper. How L.A. became itself: Jean Stein's new oral history 'West of Eden' 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It is here, seen through Vidal’s eyes, that Maurice feels most alive. A Dark New Satire Asks, How Far Would You Go to Become Famous? 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z He collaborated on that project with author Gore Vidal and Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione. 2010-01-29T07:15:00Z Mr. Jones said by way of an acceptance speech, complimenting the critics for their “great insight” in supporting Mr. Vidal’s play, which has been extended through Sept. James Earl Jones as a Broadway Patriarch, Onstage and Off 2012-05-29T22:03:27Z Vidal Sassoon is mentioned in the book “Rosemary’s Baby” and the film. Setting the Record (and the Hair) Straight: Mia Farrow Weighs In on Her ’60s Pixie 2013-01-23T22:09:11Z Though Mr. Parini says he didn’t want to write a memoir of his friendship with Vidal, it’s when he does so that “Empire of Self” is at its finest. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Ardai discovered the book by way of Harry Kloman, a Vidal scholar who teaches journalism at the University of Pittsburgh, and whose website includes information about Vidal and his pseudonyms. New Life for Some Pulp Fiction by Gore Vidal 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z In an essay on Theodore Roosevelt, Gore Vidal classified the former president and known tough guy as an “American sissy.” Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Vidal was staying at a friend’s house near the Hollywood Bowl. Gore Vidal’s reading list for America 2012-08-02T20:25:00Z Both Vidal and Buckley looked as if they wore another suit beneath their suit. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z One assumes that family ties were instrumental in securing Gore Vidal's patrician cameo as a Catholic priest in Igby Goes Down. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z Parini readily admits that for his own book he has leaned a little on Kaplan’s research, particularly for the years before he met Vidal, and factually his account differs very little. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Even the choice of Mr. Vidal as the evening’s D.J. was an indication that Hermès was doing this the Hermès way. Hermès Plays a Hipster Tune 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z It was Capote, not Vidal, who came up with the most waspish dismissal of Kerouac's work: "That's not writing, that's typing." The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z But where Twain cultivated his plain-folks image, Vidal was clearly a patrician, a scion of the American aristocracy. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He asked about its designer, then called Vidal out of the blue. Can fashion launch an actress to the A-list? Meta Golding’s red carpet strategy 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Zero is a neglected magazine, which also published early Paul Bowles and Gore Vidal. Letter: Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-10-04T16:50:00Z Gore Vidal was a better essayist than he was a novelist. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Buckley and Vidal never agreed on anything, often adopting deliberately extreme positions to antagonize each other. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal called him “an authentic American genius.” Books of The Times: ‘Complete Short Stories of James Purdy,’ Literary Outsider 2013-07-18T19:56:21Z Mr. Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia, said nephew Burr Steers. 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z Vidal presented himself to the world as a witty sybarite, fearless social critic and hardworking professional writer, and that’s how he wished to be remembered, not as a falling-down drunk and sentimental depressive. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Gore Vidal pictured in 1977 at his home in Los Angeles. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z For almost seven years, Gore Vidal has refused to talk to newspapers and magazines. ArtsBeat: Gore Vidal Leaves the Ring 2012-08-01T13:26:33Z Vidal puts the vegetable on his menu because, well, doesn’t every chef in America? Review | The new Boqueria in Penn Quarter knows how to throw a party, starting with roast chicken 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement What distinguishes Parini’s account is its readability — though it’s not without a certain amount of professorial throat-clearing and too many clichés Vidal would have winced at — and its sympathy. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z His film debut came in 1964 with the adaptation of Gore Vidal's hit political stage drama "The Best Man," starring Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson. Comedian Shelley Berman Dies at 92 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z But unlike Gore Vidal, to whom he was sometimes compared, he never wrote for British journals. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z His friend, novelist Italo Calvino, insisted that Vidal had no unconscious. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z “The first time I went to her house I was with Lorne Michaels and Jimmy Fallon, and there was Gore Vidal and his partner,” Ms. Fey said. Sue Mengers and the Hollywood Salon She Left Behind 2011-10-21T20:35:56Z Photograph: Associated Press Vidal described his homeland as the of Amnesia. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Six years later, at a New York gathering in honour of Princess Margaret, the pugnacious Mailer threw a drink in Vidal’s face then punched him in the mouth. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z “I laughed spontaneously, and with some surprise,” Vidal wrote, in the voice of Schuyler. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Vidal got fed up and demanded his name be removed from the movie. Penthouse's Bob Guccione: The Dark Prince of Porn 2010-10-21T08:45:00Z In the opinion of many critics, though, Mr. Vidal’s ultimate reputation is apt to rest less on his novels than on his essays, many of them written for The New York Review of Books. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Vidal again: “That it is right to help someone less fortunate is an idea that has figured in most systems of conduct since the beginning of the race.” Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Vidal knew how to play up to his image, and was obligingly both preening and sardonic, inviting me to notice for instance his facial resemblance, in the cheekbone area, to Pasolini. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z The revival of Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" was also timely and had the season's most insane collection of talented stage actors ever assembled, but it attacked your head. Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts 2012-06-07T19:01:07Z In Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated, Vidal argues that both the Oklahoma bombings and 9/11 attacks were provoked by "our government's reckless assaults upon other societies". The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Vidal claimed to have had a brief affair with the beat writer. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z "Gore Vidal was an original," Richards said in a statement, hailing Vidal for his "grace, distinction, style, wit and wisdom." Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T14:49:08Z Vidal's politics moved ever to the left and he eventually disdained both major parties as "property" parties - even as he couldn't help noting that Hillary Clinton had visited him in Ravello. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z “I knew I didn’t fit in and why I didn’t. I wanted to be Gore Vidal or Truman Capote.” When Fashion Meets Art 2014-03-13T00:02:24Z After Mr. Austen’s death, Mr. Vidal lived alone in declining health himself. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Knowing that Piemontese cooking was heavily influenced by its Gallic neighbor, Ms. Vidal and Mr. Cummins will be in their element. From Paris, a Pop-Up Restaurant in Italy 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z They came not long after books like Gore Vidal’s “The City and the Pillar,” Truman Capote’s “Other Voices, Other Rooms” and James Baldwin’s “Giovanni’s Room” — literature catered to a straight audience, and teeming with shame. In Life and Music, Ned Rorem Was Unwaveringly Himself 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z In Vidal’s case, literary opinion appears to be arranging a curious destiny. ‘There Is Simply Too Much to Think About,’ Saul Bellow’s Nonfiction 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Fellini wanted him in the film because Vidal had been living in Rome since the early 1960s and become well-known on the literary scene. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Before him, it was simply hairdressing: Vidal made it cut and style. Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z Expats, journalists, drag queens and American diplomats grace Vidal’s soirees. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “Gore Vidal” features conservations between the author-playwright and Paul Jay, founder of The Real News Network, a nonprofit with a stated mission of “independent, verifiable, fact-based journalism.” Assange arrest leads to interest in book of Vidal interviews 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Epstein also feuded bitterly with Gore Vidal and became a critic of the Library of America, believing that the imprint he helped establish had grown bloated. Jason Epstein, publishing editor and innovator, dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Part of his job, especially toward the end, was saving Vidal from himself. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Vidal relishes the entertaining possibilities of his story, but there is nothing lightweight about this carefully researched work. Review | Fans of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy will want to read these historical novels next 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Vidal Sassoon is no longer affiliated with the salons and products that bear his name. A blunt cut of Vidal Sassoon 2011-02-03T17:20:04Z Gore Vidal and Norman Mailer had acted as foils to each other in the literary world since the 1950s, but their biggest — and most public — clash didn't come until 1971. 20 memorable moments from talk show history 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z In 2000, in the retitled revival called “Gore Vidal’s ‘The Best Man,’ ” he played an ailing former president who tries to mediate a power struggle between two candidates. Charles Durning, Prolific Character Actor, Dies at 89 2012-12-25T09:19:03Z Gore Vidal followed in the footsteps of William Faulkner and F Scott Fitzgerald when he took the Hollywood shilling and signed on as a screenwriter for MGM. Gore Vidal: not just about the books 2012-08-01T11:26:07Z Vidal, who died Tuesday at age 85, included himself among the endangered, the unappreciated. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z Parini devotes perhaps too much space to discussing Vidal’s individual works and trying to assess his literary legacy. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Perhaps without intending it, Mr. Vidal had set a pattern. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z The book was published in 2014, two years after Vidal’s death, and consists of a transcribed discussion between Vidal and Paul Jay, the editor of the Real News Network, a nonprofit news organization. Julian Assange and the History of Celebrities Wielding Books 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z It must be said that Vidal, an avid student of history, was better informed than most people and had a sweeping global perspective. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal was an outspoken critic of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, and once called Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary, and his wife, the journalist Midge Decter, “Israeli Fifth Columnists.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Few writers have managed more fully than Stacton to bear out Gore Vidal's maxim that writers shouldn't "write what they know" but, rather, what they imagine or suspect. David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z The hairdresser also established Vidal Sassoon Academies to teach aspiring stylists how to envision haircuts based on a client's bone structure. Hairstyling Pioneer Vidal Sassoon Dies at 84 in LA 2012-05-09T20:18:46Z ABC’s grand experiment with Buckley and Vidal didn’t so much result in worse discussion as it resulted in more discussion, because it revealed discussion to be something greater than its content. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z All I knew for sure is that there was a soccer team in the city, that they played in the Mexican major league, and that they had an American on the team, midfielder Marco Vidal. A better border is possible 2012-05-26T22:00:00Z “Don’t say anything to Chuck because he will fall apart,” Vidal recalled the director as saying. The straight-washing of “Ben-Hur”: Remake of the ’59 epic drops gay subtext — and beefs up religious themes 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Smith, who said she and Mr. Vidal shared a love of gossip, read a message from David Mamet. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z In his classic essay on Henry Miller’s “Sexus,” Gore Vidal argues that Miller—known for his graphic writing on his fantasy sex life—is the original “that guy.” “Star Wars” doesn’t have a heroine problem: Arguing over whether Rey’s a “Mary Sue” is missing the point 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z His father was Eugene Vidal, Franklin Roosevelt's director of air commerce from 1933-37. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Plus, he’s smart and clearly destined to be a writer who will one day inspire Vidal to his vituperative best. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z By the standards of today, when income inequality has widened exponentially and the middle class is shrinking, statistics that infuriated Vidal sound like the answer to a socialist’s prayer. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal sometimes claimed to be a populist — in theory, anyway — but he was not convincing as one. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z In their subsequent appearance on Mr. Cavett’s show, Mr. Mailer refused to shake hands with Mr. Vidal and accused Mr. Vidal of having called him a “hugely Raskolnikovian figure.” Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z “Arles is becoming really edgy because the new cultural institutions are drawing more creative people,” Ms. Vidal said. A Restaurant Marks a Newly Creative City in Southern France 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Divided by so much, Mr. Vidal and Buckley were united in their iconoclasm, however uneasily. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Had Much in Common 2012-08-01T22:15:55Z Netflix also severed ties with Spacey’s other projects, including a movie about late author Gore Vidal. Netflix takes $39 million charge after Kevin Spacey scandal 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Or rather, Mailer — affecting a puzzling Irish brogue, as he was known to do — shot barb after barb at a somewhat amused Vidal, who responded levelly. 20 memorable moments from talk show history 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Palau stayed in London and enrolled in the Vidal Sassoon hair academy. | Skin Deep: New York Fashion Week Beauty Team: Guido Palau and Diane Kendal 2012-09-05T18:51:51Z This satire about a demented visitor from outer space who arrives in Virginia with the hope of starting a third world war recalls Wilde and Shaw, though it reverberates with Vidal's own unmistakable tone. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z When his editor in New York telephoned with the news that Capote had died, Vidal responded: "A wise career move." Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Once I was in attendance at a studio from which a short-lived attempt at a weekly, public TV quiz show was being broadcast; Gore Vidal was one of the guests. Gore Vidal’s reading list for America 2012-08-02T20:25:00Z The respect Vidal showcased for America’s founding fathers emanates from the same point of caution. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z An examination of Vidal’s art and politics is insufficient if it does not acknowledge the secular prophecy pulsating throughout the best of his novels and essays. The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Gore Vidal remembers his first reaction to “The Naked and the Dead”: “It’s a fake.” When literature goes to war: How Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer and “Catch-22″ changed the novel forever 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z The bloodied Vidal’s response was typically verbal: ‘Norman, once again words have failed you.’ Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z Born into a well-connected political family, Vidal attended Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, then joined the Army and plunged into a writing career. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Vidal and author Norman Mailer conducted a lengthy literary feud. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Burr Steers says Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T04:12:06Z Updike is not situated, in “Updike,” except in passing, in the whirring galaxy of his competitive cohort, all those gravity-bending white males: Bellow, Styron, Vidal, Roth. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z Vidal and Buckley were authentically important and interesting writers and thinkers, but sitting under the lights they were, above all, celebrities, signifiers of their own distorted individuality. Review: ‘Best of Enemies’ Recalls Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.’s TV Battles 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “I immediately was taken by how contemporary it was,” Mr. Gordon said, noting that between zingers, Buckley and Vidal were debating foreign wars, racial justice and states’ rights. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z At curtain calls, photos of Vidal will be shown on the monitors. Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T14:49:08Z The essay came closest, and it’s there that Vidal most gets to show off his wit, stylishness and erudition — to be Vidal. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z But Mr. Vidal, as usual, had the last word. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z During the days of Franklin Roosevelt, one of the few leaders whom Vidal admired, he might have been called a "traitor to his class." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Mr. Vidal sallied forth with various bon mots, at one point smiling so much he had to cover his mouth. Circa Now: Feuding in 140 Characters 2014-04-25T22:22:54Z Those who genuinely liked her — Prince Philip, Gore Vidal — tended to be somewhat impossible themselves. Mad, Bad and Difficult to Know: The Life of a Rebel Aristocrat 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Vidal died at his home in the Hollywood Hills at about 6:45 p.m. of complications from pneumonia, his nephew Burr Steers said. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z That interview does not appear in the film; Buckley died in 2008, and the directors felt allowing only Vidal to speak would unbalance the film. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Vidal’s narrator is the fictional Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, a widower and “very old,” he tells us, at the age of 62. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z At his best, as Mewshaw neatly points out, Vidal’s sentences possess “the snap of a dominatrix’s whip.” Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Until the Times lifted the ban, Vidal wrote a series of mystery novels under a nom de plum, and moved to Hollywood, where he authored several screenplays for film and television, including “Ben-Hur.” The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z On this second viewing, I felt that Gore Vidal is maybe the better comparison, and the fanatical, passionate care with which Ledgard repairs damaged flesh mirrors the catastrophe connoisseurship displayed in JG Ballard's Crash. The Skin I Live In ? review 2011-08-25T13:00:01Z The Vidal remembered most often, though, was the public one who delighted in poking fun at received opinion. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Gore Vidal put this another way: “It is not enough merely to win; others must lose.” Review: ‘White Trash’ Ruminates on an American Underclass 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal’s mother, Nina, was an actress and socialite and the daughter of Thomas Pryor Gore, the Democratic senator from Oklahoma. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z In Tim Robbins' satire "Bob Roberts," Vidal played an aging and ineffectual senator who is no match for cynical times. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z Gore Vidal paid Bremer the compliment of declaring that the diary could not have been written by a mere “busboy.” He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience’s defection to other forms of entertainment. Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z Ms. Ashley remembered a woozy afternoon in 1974 spent drinking at the Carlyle Hotel bar with Mr. Vidal and Tennessee Williams. Memorial for Gore Vidal in Manhattan 2012-08-23T21:59:36Z Vidal's final film appearance was as a chat show host in the 2009 film Shrink, about a psychologist who treats Hollywood stars. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Vidal is survived by his half-sister Nina Straight and half brother Tommy Auchincloss. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z This pioneering novel became a bestseller, but the consequences of publishing a gay novel in 1948 were severe, and Vidal's literary career nearly ground to a premature halt. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z He began work on “Williwaw,” a novel set on a troopship and published in 1946 while Mr. Vidal was an associate editor at the publishing company E. P. Dutton, a job he soon gave up. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z The documentary only glosses his private life, which is thoroughly dissected in Tim Teeman’s recently published book, “In Bed With Gore Vidal.” ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He seems not to have noticed that Vidal was at least acknowledging Forster's superior status, something that didn't come easily to him. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z Reagan’s America was dangerously like Sparta, Vidal said, ruled by an elite, bound by tradition, xenophobic, a “militarized republic” too eager for confrontation. Gore Vidal’s reading list for America 2012-08-02T20:25:00Z What resulted was Buckley’s long retrospective view of the debate in Esquire magazine and Vidal’s response, a lawsuit and a countersuit. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Research for the documentary took years, with the directors plumbing archives for gems like Vidal’s handwritten debate notes. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Assange was carrying a copy of “Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America” when he was arrested Thursday at the Ecuadoran embassy in London. Assange arrest leads to interest in book of Vidal interviews 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Always intent on living well, Vidal needed a good deal more money than his fiction attracted. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z But he draws Lincoln — his voice like “a tenor trumpet” as Vidal puts it and Gardner fulfills — with compassion and genius, making this one of the truly great historical novels. Review | Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’ and other best audiobooks for summer’s end 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Having harboured political ambitions since adolescence, Vidal tossed his hat in the ring in 1960, running for Congress as a Democrat in New York's traditionally Republican 29th District. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Vidal’s target was Paul Ryan’s idol and the idol of so many modern conservatives: the trash novelist and crackpot philosopher Ayn Rand, whom Vidal quotes thusly: Media, morality and the neighbor’s cow: When did Ayn Rand become the Republican Party’s bible? 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z And like Mr. Vidal he continued to champion Lindbergh many years later. Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Had Much in Common 2012-08-01T22:15:55Z The obvious parallel is with Noam Chomsky—and in September 1991 Mr Parini brought both Mr Chomsky and Vidal together for a television interview. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Vidal nodded and returned upstairs to change while the crew set up in the living room. Gore Vidal’s reading list for America 2012-08-02T20:25:00Z Vidal began the cycle of historical works that peaked in 1984 with "Lincoln." Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Vidal formed an unusual bond with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z While there is much to admire in the book, nobody could have foreseen how Vidal's American chronicle would unfold. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Mr. Austen was buried in Washington in a plot Mr. Vidal had purchased in Rock Creek Cemetery. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Mr. Vidal later claimed that the literary and critical establishment, The New York Times especially, had blacklisted him because of the book, and he may have been right. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Editors such as Doubleday's Gerald Howard, who worked with Vidal over the past decade, learned to permit him the last word. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z He not only lost his cool, he revealed exactly the prejudices that Vidal hoped to pin on him and, by extension, on conservative ideology. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal was, at the end of his life, an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z However, though distantly related to Clinton's vice-president, Al Gore, Vidal delighted in declining to meet a branch of the family he regarded as dull, grey sheep. Gore Vidal reached amazing heights but missed out on main ambitions 2012-08-01T18:03:25Z Vidal loved making cameo appearances in film and on television. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Every intellectual who tries to crack wise on television is emulating Gore Vidal, whether or not he or she knows it. How one sexy gay novel derailed Gore Vidal’s literary career 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Michele Bachmann, who alleged she was so put off by Vidal's "Burr" that she switched party affiliation from Democrat to Republican. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z “Every time a friend succeeds, something inside me dies,” Vidal famously said, and the phrase has been pressed into service as the title for the British edition of Parini’s book. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z This sublime section is written in the third person, from Vidal’s vantage point — an act of near-ventriloquism that captures the writer’s astringent humor and haughty graciousness. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “Despite some trust-busting,” Vidal writes, “he never took on the great ring of corruption that ruled and rules in this republic.” Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, while Vidal often demanded red-carpet treatment for himself, he could be generous, too, once lending his villa, La Rondinaia, to Mewshaw as a writing retreat. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “What they brought,” he added, referring to Vidal and Buckley, “was a whole other level of incivility that television hadn’t really seen.” Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Talking of which, do you loathe Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag as much as me? Distant Intimacy by Frederic Raphael and Joseph Epstein – digested read 2013-03-18T08:00:27Z Didion's essays, like Vidal's, not only capture the reality of their time, but also undress ugly truths of the American experience, and the use of power more broadly, that make them, unfortunately, timeless. Joan Didion exposed political stories America is still telling itself in order to live 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Vidal satirised the monstrousness of his vanity, without wholly undermining it. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z A second tilt at office came in 1982, when Vidal came second in the race to become the Democratic party candidate for the senate in California. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z "The philosophy of punishing Cuba remains in effect," Josefina Vidal, chief of the Cuban foreign ministry's U.S. division, told reporters in Havana last week. Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps without meaning to, the film also captures many of Vidal’s contradictions. How one sexy gay novel derailed Gore Vidal’s literary career 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In “Empire of Self,” Vidal finally gets what he wished for: To be taken seriously as a novelist. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Vidal liked to present himself as an insider – a man who understood the world and how it worked. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z By the end of the ’50s, though, Mr. Vidal, at last financially secure, had wearied of Hollywood and turned to politics. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z They are all first rate, but “Lincoln” is my favorite, not only because it is the longest, but because of the complexity of Vidal’s portrait of this determined, flawed and tragic man. Review | Gore Vidal’s ‘Lincoln’ and other best audiobooks for summer’s end 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z Vidal’s dark wit almost single-handedly awakened the American historical novel from its costumed midcentury slumbers, but his Schuyler is also capable of a Dickensian warmth. Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z I can’t help feeling that Vidal and Buckley would finally be united, in the afterlife, by their shared horror and shame at the shallowness and artificiality of the political and cultural combat zone they pioneered. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Vidal's attraction to the ancient world yielded another popular novel, Creation, in 1981. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z But even as a young man, Vidal saw himself a witness to the decline - or presumed decline - of so much that he loved. The great, and entitled Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T21:11:12Z Executive director Charlotte St Martin called Vidal's work both "timely and timeless". Broadway theatres to dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T11:43:18Z Vidal calls it his choice dish, because it reminds the Barcelona native of “the way we eat in Spain.” Review | The new Boqueria in Penn Quarter knows how to throw a party, starting with roast chicken 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Perhaps more than any other American writer except Norman Mailer or Truman Capote, Mr. Vidal took great pleasure in being a public figure. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Published in 1948, the novel's straightforward story about two male lovers was virtually unheard of at the time and Vidal claimed that Prescott swore he would never review his books again. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z At the time the most expensive film ever made, William Wyler’s 1959 film, ran 212 minutes from a screenplay whipped into shape by novelist Gore Vidal. Don't judge Ben-Hur by the 2016 version 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z The guests included Mr. Vidal and Mr. Ali, blackballed from boxing because of his refusal to join the Army and fight in Vietnam. Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z The gathering immortalized by Mr. Bissinger — “pretty good for a summer’s day in the garden of a New York City brownstone,” Mr. Vidal told Smithsonian magazine in 2007 — was not unusual. Johnny Nicholson, Whose Manhattan Cafe Attracted ‘New Bohemian’ Crowd, Dies at 99 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Of course, Vidal famously refused to identify as gay, despite his authorship of “The City and the Pillar,” one of the first modern gay-themed novels, and his 53-year relationship with Howard Austen . Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z One of the lessons Vidal would use his rhetorical ability and agility to amplify was the historical warning of Ancient Rome: “A nation cannot be a republic and an empire at the same time.” The man who warned us about Donald Trump, Fox News and the rise of the idiocracy 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z "Vidal Sassoon: The Movie" is scheduled to open in New York on Feb. 11, in Los Angeles on Feb. 18 and in Chicago on March 18. A blunt cut of Vidal Sassoon 2011-02-03T17:20:04Z His witty remarks became the stuff of tabloid gossip, as when a friend asked him to be the godfather of his new child, and Vidal quipped: "Always a godfather, never a god." Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z Vidal had been living alone in the home and had been sick for "quite a while," Steers said. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z When Mewshaw received a commission to write about Vidal for that newspaper’s Sunday magazine, the profile was ultimately killed. Michael Mewshaw’s ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Yards and yards of patriotic bunting stun the senses as you enter the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, where a revival of “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” opened on Sunday night. Theater Review: ?Gore Vidal?s The Best Man? at Gerald Schoenfeld Theater 2012-04-02T02:17:15Z Vidal took Capote to court for libel, where the two traded insults. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z Television was a natural medium for Mr. Vidal, who in person was often as cool and detached as he was in his prose. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Offended by Tate’s tardiness, Vidal abandons the interview and glides away, stranding the reporter between the tinkling temptations of his minibar and the insistent goading of Villechaize to stay out all night. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z When ABC hired Buckley and Vidal to hold daily debates during its convention coverage — essentially a ratings stunt by a network ranked last in the ratings — it was breaking from the gavel-to-gavel norm. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Forgive me as I channel Gore Vidal, but I couldn’t resist the urge. Letters to the Editor 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Eliot called “the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James” — or, as Gore Vidal put it, as Gore Vidal would, the work of a writer who was “barely literate”? Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The Best Man, a political play, was a hit in 1960, and was made into a widely acclaimed film starring Henry Fonda with a script by Vidal in 1964. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z “Vidal Sassoon The Movie,” a new documentary about the hair product mogul, opens in New York on Friday. ArtsBeat: Arts & Leisure Preview: Matthew Perry, 'That Championship Season,' Vidal Sassoon and More 2011-02-04T21:13:32Z He was nearly out of his chair, inches from Vidal, his face, as Christopher Hitchens recalls in the film, “a rictus of loathing.” Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z His collection of essays, United States, won the National Book Award in 1993, the same year that Vidal's friend Bill Clinton became president. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z Unless he’s a journalist ' ... is this your favourite Gore Vidal quote? Gore Vidal's greatest quotes: leave your tributes here 2012-08-01T09:07:24Z On your lineup of bars to hit, Ms. Ralph Vidal advised finding at least one famous for the local specialty. Six Ways to Drink Like a Local on Vacation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Vidal’s third novel, “The City and the Pillar,” from 1948, is about homosexual relationships. Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z When I arrived at the front of the Beacon’s line, a sales clerk in chunky black-framed eyeglasses and a Vidal Sassoon bob took my bags. The Marie Kondo Effect Reaches Beacon’s Closet 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Vidal was a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels, including historical works such as "Lincoln" and "Burr" and satires such as "Myra Breckinridge" and "Duluth." 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z As ever Gore Vidal, a friend and fellow resident of Rome, makes for some of the most entertaining copy. His Roman Holiday Lasted a Lifetime 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z You’re the authenticator for all of the furniture of your friend and mentor, Gore Vidal. Matt Tyrnauer: Chronicler of Trump’s Mentor Roy Cohn 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Vidal, wasn’t it a provocative act to try to raise the Vietcong flag in the park in the film we just saw? Buckley, Vidal, and the Birth of Buzz 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z In 1975 Mr. Vidal sued Truman Capote for libel after Capote wrote that Mr. Vidal had been thrown out of the Kennedy White House. Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Vidal saw it as a triumph; Buckley almost never spoke of it again. Buckley vs. Vidal: When Debate Became Bloodsport 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z If “Eminent Outlaws” has two overlapping central figures, they are Mr. Vidal and Mr. White, productive writers who, in their heyday, went everywhere and seemed to know everyone. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z But Vidal made his living - a very good living - from challenging power, not holding it. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z In 1964 he was credited as production associate on The Best Man, Gore Vidal's sharp look at morality in politics. Tom Mankiewicz obituary 2010-08-04T17:43:00Z Vidal's essays celebrate the triumphs of private values over the public ones of power. Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T05:32:19Z It was revived on Broadway in 2000 and is now being revived there again as “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man.” Gore Vidal, 1925-2012: Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 2012-08-01T05:20:14Z Both Gertrude Stein and Gore Vidal — two very different writers — thought it, in Vidal’s words, “the best American prose.” Review | Ulysses S. Grant, perennially misunderstood, gets a thorough re-examination 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Executive Director Charlotte St. Martin called Vidal's work both "timely and timeless." Broadway will dim lights in memory of Gore Vidal 2012-08-02T14:49:08Z Dawson bought it from the estate of Yves Vidal, after his former Casbah home, York Castle, fell into the sea. T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z Gore Vidal did not expect Ulysses S. Grant to be funny. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z It mattered immensely to Vidal that he could live well, whether in huge homes in America and Italy or in comfortable suites at the best hotels in London, Paris and Bangkok. Life out loud 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z If at times “Empire of Self” feels as if it’s checking off a list, it’s because Vidal’s life was so large and various. ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ by Jay Parini 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z His parents divorced in 1935, when Vidal was nine, and he enlisted in the US army when he was 17, serving for four months in the winter of 1945 on a supply ship off Alaska. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z He gave an interview saying that Vidal had been thrown out of the White House for drunkenness and quarrelling with Jackie Onassis's mother. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z So did two groundbreaking gay-themed works of fiction: “The City and the Pillar,” by Mr. Vidal, and “Other Voices, Other Rooms,” by Capote. Books of The Times: Christopher Bram?s ?Eminent Outlaws,? on American Gay Writers 2012-02-02T22:57:21Z A longtime critic of American militarism, Vidal was, ironically, born at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., his father's alma mater. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z Mewshaw is the author of 20 books, most recently “Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal.” Louis Begley’s ‘Kill and Be Killed’: A slick thriller from a literary lion 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z The appearance is most memorable for the fact that, for once in his life, Vidal's eloquence was definitively upstaged. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z But Omar Vidal, CEO of the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico, notes that illegal logging in the butterfly reserves remains a concern. Monarch butterflies in Mexico allow brush with fragile beauty 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Vidal once saw Henry Kissinger in the Sistine Chapel, gazing upon... 'Burr' author, pundit Gore Vidal dies 2012-08-01T20:25:39Z When Vidal Sassoon cut her hair off, it changed how women look at their hair. Ted Gibson?s Top Movie Hairstyles 2012-02-14T21:01:10Z It happened that Vidal was complaining about a Jewish media conspiracy not to review his work when he started to sound, on playback, like an antisemitic munchkin. Adam Mars-Jones: my lunch at the Dorchester with Gore Vidal 2012-08-03T07:00:37Z In a world more to his liking, Gore Vidal might have been president, or even king. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z The case is Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for intellectual property and director, U.S. Supreme Court raises concerns over trademark for phrase ‘Trump too small’ 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Trump is not a party to the case of Vidal vs. Supreme Court sounds ready to rule a Californian can't trademark T-shirts with Trump's name 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in the Times’ Mexico City bureau contributed to this report. Pop star Peso Pluma, who praises 'El Chapo' in his songs, is threatened with death by a rival drug cartel 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico City contributed to this report. Mexico's peso is soaring. That's bad news for people who rely on dollars sent from the U.S. 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Police and the Public Ministry issued a joint statement saying the blast occurred at a business called Vidal Plast, rather than at a bakery as authorities had said initially. Dominican officials say plastics company to blame for explosion that killed 31 people 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z The government offered no warning of the impending water quality changes, Vidal notes, or sought scientific input on how to soften the potential impacts. In Uruguay, a water crisis is upending research 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The pioneering gay novelist Gore Vidal recalls how the publication of his novel “The City and the Pillar” in 1948 was met with “shock and disbelief.” Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z On Monday, the court said it would the hear the case of Vidal vs. Supreme Court will decide whether T-shirt mocking Trump as 'too small' can be trademarked 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z She also became a fashion icon in her own right, known for her signature short skirts and distinctive bob haircut, styled by her friend Vidal Sassoon. Mary Quant, British designer who dressed the swinging ’60s, dies at 93 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The owners of Vidal Plast could not be immediately reached for comment. Dominican officials say plastics company to blame for explosion that killed 31 people 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z “They wilted prematurely,” Vidal recalls, ruining experiments that had been running for years. In Uruguay, a water crisis is upending research 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z Quant was unusual in that she often modeled her own clothes, usually with her hair styled in a distinctive, angular bob by hairdresser Vidal Sassoon. Mary Quant, fashion designer who dressed up the Swinging ’60s, dies at 93 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z “After appearing on my show, Gore Vidal told someone, ‘Connie actually reads the books.’ Connie Martinson, who interviewed thousands of authors on TV, dies at 90 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z |
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