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Howard Austen (born Howard Auster; [1] January 28, 1929 – September 22, 2003) was an American copywriter and stage manager.. Best known as the longtime companion of writer Gore Vidal, Austen worked at an advertising agency before becoming a stage manager for Broadway productions.
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Jr. (August 15, 1897 – November 20, 1976) was an American stockbroker and lawyer. He became the second husband of Nina S. Gore, mother of Gore Vidal, and also the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy) and Caroline Lee Bouvier.
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In response to Vidal's opinion about the decades-old Polanski rape case, a spokeswoman for the organization Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, Barbara Dorris, said, "People should express their outrage, by refusing to buy any of his books", called Vidal a "mean-spirited buffoon" and said that, although "a boycott wouldn't hurt Vidal ...
Gattaca is a 1997 American dystopian science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol in his feature directorial debut.It stars Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman with Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin appearing in supporting roles. [4]
Best of Enemies is a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the televised debates between intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. during the 1968 United States presidential election. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by Magnolia and Participant Media. [4]
Gore Vidal: Snapshots in History's Glare (2009) ISBN 0-8109-5049-9; I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) ISBN 978-1-61902-174-7; Gore Vidal History of the National Security State, The Real News Network, introduction by Paul Jay (2014) Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates (2015) ISBN 978-1 ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...