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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l / vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. [1]
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]
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 ...
That’s not quite Uncle Jack’s “girl-a-day routine” (as reported by Gore Vidal) but it apparently was enough—along with his relentless campaign of cruelty and humiliation—to drive one ...
The Gore Vidal biographical film Gore, starring Spacey, which was set to be distributed by Netflix, was canceled, [36] [37] and Netflix went on to sever all ties with him. [38] He was due to appear in All the Money in the World as industrialist J. Paul Getty; his scenes were cut, and Christopher Plummer replaced him as Getty in reshoots. [39]
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.
There was Gore Vidal’s 1973 novel Burr, and a 1978 episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In 1989, Estelle Fox Kleiger published The Trial of Levi Weeks: Or The Manhattan Well Mystery.
Caligula earned some pre-release controversy after Gore Vidal, who had written the script, distanced himself from the film, [172] and actress Maria Schneider, who objected to the nude scenes, walked off the set and was replaced with then-unknown Teresa Ann Savoy. [173] Upon its release, Vidal stated that it was "easily one of the worst films ...