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US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86
BBC ^ | August 1, 2012

Posted on 07/31/2012 10:10:24 PM PDT by Zakeet

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To: Zakeet

He was looking for an actress he wanted to interview and called my company once during the ‘70s. He was rude and arrogant. That was the only phone call we accepted from him.


21 posted on 07/31/2012 11:29:35 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Zakeet

Good riddance you filthy communist.


22 posted on 08/01/2012 12:24:42 AM PDT by moonshot925
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To: SoDak
May God have mercy on his America-hating, homosexual, moonbat-leftist soul
23 posted on 08/01/2012 12:45:14 AM PDT by laweeks
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To: Zakeet
From the movie In the Loop:

Karen: So you read Liza's paper I guess.
General Miller: I am a voracious reader. I'm the Gore Vidal of the Pentagon.
Karen: Gore's gay.
General Miller: No he's not.
Karen: I beg to differ but...
General Miller: He's gay? Cos I've been saying that Gore Vidal line a lot.
Karen: He is gay.
General Miller: Guess I'd better stop saying that then.

24 posted on 08/01/2012 3:00:38 AM PDT by Moltke ("I am Dr. Sonderborg," he said, "and I don't want any nonsense.")
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To: Zakeet

Equally important is that it’s time to rearrange my sock drawer.


25 posted on 08/01/2012 3:29:32 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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To: Borges

Completely agree. I never found his fiction engaging, but he was a trenchant essayist - superior in my mind to Wilson and Mencken.


26 posted on 08/01/2012 3:58:06 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: GreatOne

Not politically correct: won’t miss him a bit.


27 posted on 08/01/2012 4:29:53 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually (Hendrix))
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To: SoDak

Watching interviews of him always left me with a sense of sadness. Here, no doubt, was a profoundly unhappy man. A nasty embittered old queen, who spent his last years living in hotels.


28 posted on 08/01/2012 4:31:29 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: Zakeet
feh...
29 posted on 08/01/2012 4:56:45 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Beowulf9

“Obama can’t afford to lose votes!”
Obama isn’t worried,the vast majority of dead voters go Democrat.


30 posted on 08/01/2012 5:58:32 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Zakeet

***Myra Breckenridge,***

Myra bombed big at the box office. Vidal also wrote the screenplay for the hardcore porno flick CALIGULA.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066115/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/

So we see his mind was in the gutter.


31 posted on 08/01/2012 7:32:23 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (EAT MORE CHICKEN! Beef is too high!)
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To: Zakeet

Prayers for a misguided soul.


32 posted on 08/01/2012 8:58:59 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: wideawake

Onion headline regarding Vidal:  “Last Person To Voluntarily Write Essay Dies”


33 posted on 08/01/2012 10:58:44 AM PDT by Borges
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