-Caveat Lector-
Well if you call Gore Vidal a patriot - fine; I still remember remarks
he made about JFK, his appearance on TV, and this obsession with
homosexuality.
I imagine you are in love with Arthur Miller too?
Was glad to hear he had recovered from his "illness" and to tell the
truth, do not care to read further the work of an alleged "man" who
calls himself the "gentleman bitch"......
Recall when he called John F. Kennedy a fascist and when JFK was
murdered when asked who were the greatest historical figures, he
responded "Muhammed, Buddah, Jesus Christ, and John F. Kennedy".......he
delighted in the death of JFK, and he was to me just one queer bastard
with built in room service - and he was no gentleman, just a
"bitch".......can see at that how McVeigh would idiolize and worship at
his feet, as would any mutt dog before a bitich in heat.
He failed to win two elective offices (as did Norman Mailer fail to win
any office for which he ran)......Vidal a social critic - well Gay Pride
may adore him, America really did not care for him at the public trough.
Did McVeigh ever have a girlfriend - I wonder.
Saba
Gore Vidal (1925- )
Friday March 22 1:50 PM EST
U.S. author Gore Vidal in hospital in Italy
SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - American author and social critic Gore Vidal
was rushed to hospital in the southern Italian town of Salerno Friday
after suffering a hemmorrhage but was in a stable condition, doctors
said. Vidal, 70, was taken to the San Giovanni hospital shortly after 6
a.m. following a rectal hemmorrhage. A hospital official said he would
undergo tests Saturday and a decision would be made then on how long to
keep him in hospital. Vidal, controversial author of such best-sellers
as "Lincoln," "Myra Breckinridge" and "Burr" plus essays and
screenplays, has a villa on the Italian coast. REUTER
Sunday March 24 2:34 PM EST
Gore Vidal "Doing Well" In Italian Hospital
SALERNO, Italy (Reuter) - U.S. author Gore Vidal was reported doing well
Saturday, a day after being rushed to an Italian hospital with a rectal
hemorrhage. Doctors in the southern Italian town of Salerno said Vidal,
70, suffered the hemorrhage at his villa in the town of Ravello on the
nearby Amalfi coast. "He is doing pretty well. He is undergoing a few
more tests today to determine the cause of the hemmorrhage," Dr.
Francesco Mastrandrea of the town's San Giovanni hospital told Reuters
in a telephone interview. "The hemorrhage has been stopped and I think
he could go home in a couple of days," said Mastrandrea, adding: "His
morale is good and he is chatting with everyone."
Vidal, a controversial author and social critic, was taken to the
hospital shortly after 6 a.m. Friday. Gore shocked Americans when he
burst onto the literary scene in 1948 with a noval called "The City and
the Pillar," which dealt frankly with homosexuality. He wrote frankly
about homosexuality at a time when it was taboo.
Vidal has made two failed bids for public office and in recent years has
published a series of best-selling historical novels that analyze where
he thinks America fell from grace. Few contemporary writers have
generated as much controversy as Gore Vidal, who calls himself "the
gentleman bitch" of American letters. "I am exactly as I appear. There
is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you
break the ice, you find cold water," the tall, gray-haired author of
such best-sellers as "Lincoln," "Myra Breckinridge" and "Burr," once
told an interviewer. Vidal has lived with male companion Howard Austin
for more than three decades, splitting their time between the United
States and the villa in Italy. REUTER
The American writer Gore Vidal, b. West Point, N.Y., Oct. 3, 1925,
achieved success with his first novel, Williwaw (1946), inspired by his
wartime service in the Aleutians. The City and the Pillar (1948), an
account of homosexual life in the United States, and The Judgment of
Paris (1952), a modernization of the ancient myth, won the respect of
critics. Myra Breckinridge (1968), an outrageous spoof of Hollywood
featuring a transsexual hero/heroine, brought him a much larger reading
public. Vidal demonstrated his flair for dialogue and political
understanding in two successful plays: Visit to a Small Planet (1957)
and The Best Man (1960; film, 1964). His penchant for re-creating
history led to Julian (1964), a fictional biography of the Roman
emperor; Burr (1973), 1876 (1976), Empire (1987), and Hollywood (1990),
studies of 19th- and 20th-century U.S. politics; and Creation (1981),
about the 5th century BC. Vidal's acerbic literary and political essays
have been published in the collections Homage to Daniel Shays (1973),
Matters of Fact and Fiction (1977), and The Second American Revolution
(1982). In 1992, Vidal brought out Screening History, a nonfiction work
concerned with film themes, and the fictional Live from Golgotha, which
some readers called sacrilegious.
Bibliography: Dick, Bernard F., The Apostate Angel: Gore Vidal (1974);
Kiernan, Robert F., Gore Vidal (1982); White, Ray Lewis, Gore Vidal
(1968).
Text Copyright © 1993 Grolier Incorporated
Vidal Links
A review of Creation (.au)
"Monotheism and Its Discontents" (.au)
Review of Billy the Kid (a film)
Vidal at the Internet Movie Database
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