Gore Vidal - classic or dud?

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002

haha, i remember that! it's largely and sadly otm, though vidal would have been entitled to write a response hatchet job, since hitch's decline was even uglier than vidal's dabbling in pearl harbor/911 truthism. vidal's polanski remark was undeniably appalling but hitch said comparably awful things on a regular basis at the height of his deranged neocon phase -- calling the dixie chicks "fat fucking slags," some pretty awful stuff about cindy sheehan.

:( at Vidal slagging off Idries Shah, altho I suppose I shouldn't be surprised

Bitchiness was an essential part of his public style. When he directed it properly, he made it a virtue, but he wasn't always wise in his use of it.

also, FRED ASTAIRE???? ewwwww

Yeah that I was wondering about.

Flying Down to Eeeeyeeeew

on the new documentary

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/22/how_one_sexy_gay_novel_derailed_gore_vidals_literary_career/

The new doc, available on demand, is a hagiography. Any hour spent watching YouTube clips is more entertaining.

yeah i'm certainly not gonna spend $13 to see it

https://twitter.com/JamesWolcott/status/558683822729232386

is he dead yet

lol @ "America's most controversial writer"

Alfred: he lives in the very cigarette ash you ignore.

michael mewshaw abt him on charlie rose --

i remember he was very kind to guests that we had invited to meet him at our house for dinner and he talked to these ppl uh most patiently put up with all their questions about lincoln and they were a business couple and then when we sat down to dinner he said id like to ask you a question now, and they perked up and said yes gore, "What do women think about anal intercourse?"

:D

I always want to know!

Not long ago Alice Longworth managed to startle even me by announcing, at a dinner party: "Daisy Harriman told me that every time she was alone with Senator Gore he would pounce on her. I could never understand why he liked her. After all, he was blind. But then Daisy always smelled nice."

Netflix to shoot this in Gore's villa! What would he say about Spacey?

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/kevin-spacey-to-play-gore-vidal-in-netflix-original-biopic-exclusive-1202502213/

how is it that spacey is still in the closet

I should've been cast. I've been honing my Vee-dal for months.

If Spacey goes Method in the villa, what will the budget be for teenage boy 'day labor'?

ughhh why does it have to be Spacey :(

No matter how hard Kevin Spacey (or the script) tries, I don't think he (or it) could ever faithfully capture Gore's caustic personality or the degree of contempt in which he held 'the opposition'.

Spacey is about 58, I wonder what ages he'll be playing GV? He was 43 at the big TV tiff with Buckley.

Obv the Young Vidal years would require someone handsomer.

If Spacey goes Method in the villa, what will the budget be for teenage boy 'day labor'?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 21, 2017

The film is in the can, and Netflix will not release it. Gore wins!

Obv the Young Vidal years would require someone handsomer.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius),

uh wrong. Young Vee-dal was gorgeous.

i know! i meant handsomer than K.S.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QwflYHGtZuk