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As a matter of fact Tim did have girl friends. He liked to keep his personal
life private.
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From: "Aleisha Saba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Gore Vidal
> -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
> Related Links
> Jack Kerouac Character Alias Key at Literary Kicks
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