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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 ...
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]
Vidal was born in the cadet hospital of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, the only child of Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) and Nina S. Gore (1903–1978).
Leavell-Keaton's husband John DeBlase was also sentenced to death. She is the first woman sentenced to death in Mobile County. Christie Michelle Scott [9] In August 2008, a blaze broke out at the home of Christie Michelle Scott in Russellville, Alabama, killing her six-year-old son, Mason. Scott had purchased a $100,000 life insurance policy on ...
List of women on death row in the United States; Notes References. This page was last edited on 21 December 2024, at 07:59 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (formerly Steers, born January 10, 1937) [1] is an American author, journalist, and socialite. [2] She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers , half-sister of Gore Vidal , step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Onassis and socialite Princess Lee Radziwill .
Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No (1983) is a documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Gary Conklin.The film follows famed American writer and political gadfly Gore Vidal in his quixotic campaign against incumbent California Governor Jerry Brown for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1982.
The film is a commentary on Vidal's professional and personal life, and the impact he had in art and politics. [3] It includes exclusive interviews with Vidal, as well as figures such as Burr Steers and Christopher Hitchens.