Iconic Gay Author Gore Vidal Dies at 86
Groundbreaking gay author, screenwriter, political essayist, and playwright Gore Vidal died Tuesday at age 86, as reported on his official website.
Vidal's legacy includes penning The City and the Pillar, one of the first mainstream American novels to feature overtly gay characters. He is commonly regarded as an important figure in LGBT representation and sexual liberation.
Throughout his career, he continued to incorporate gay themes. In the documentary The Celluloid Closet, Vidal admitted he had added overt homosexual subtext to his screenplay for Ben-Hur.
Vidal was also a prolific and controversial political activist. He was a member of the leftwing World Can't Wait organization and advocated the impeachment of George W. Bush.
Vidal's other works include the novels Myra Breckenridge, Lincoln, and Burr; his memoir Palimpsest; and the screenplays for Suddenly, Last Summer, Is Paris Burning, and Caligula. A revival of his play The Best Man is currently running on Broadway.
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Well its a shame. He was always articulate, always challenging and nearly always worth reading.
Which even W.F. (I hate nigras) Buckley cannot say.
I read Buckley's protege's memoir over the break. Worth reading, if you care. Garry Wills, "Outside Looking In".
No local conservatives will ever read anything.
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Which even W.F. (I hate nigras) Buckley cannot say.
I read Buckley's protege's memoir over the break. Worth reading, if you care. Garry Wills, "Outside Looking In".
No local conservatives will ever read anything.
yrs,
rubato
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Now that's a mystery....
Econo had a post here earlier that seems to have disappeared....
Econo had a post here earlier that seems to have disappeared....
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I deleted that post shortly after I wrote it.
At first I thought that rubato had confused Garry Wills, a liberal, with George Will, a conservative. Upon further research I found that Garry Wills was indeed considered a protege of Buckley when Wills was first hired at National Review way back in 1957. It wasn't until the mid-to-late 60s that he'd moved far enough to the left to be described as a liberal, and I've only been familiar with Wills--and Will--since the late 60s or early 70s.
I'm still not sure whether rubato confused the two writers (it would have been more accurate to call Wills a "former protege" or a "onetime protege") but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
At first I thought that rubato had confused Garry Wills, a liberal, with George Will, a conservative. Upon further research I found that Garry Wills was indeed considered a protege of Buckley when Wills was first hired at National Review way back in 1957. It wasn't until the mid-to-late 60s that he'd moved far enough to the left to be described as a liberal, and I've only been familiar with Wills--and Will--since the late 60s or early 70s.
I'm still not sure whether rubato confused the two writers (it would have been more accurate to call Wills a "former protege" or a "onetime protege") but I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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I happened to see the post early yesterday morning Econo, and what struck me as funny about it, was that it was one of the rare occasions, (in fact the only one that I can think of off hand...though in 12 years there must be one or two others) where rube made an assertion, someone made a counter assertion, and it was rube who was in fact correct....
I knew that while Will has said he was influenced by Buckley, and became an admirer and later a friend, Wills on the other hand, had actually worked for Buckley back in the early days of National Review back in the late 50's, and hence could more accurately be described as a "protege"....
I was aware of this, (and Wills' beginnings as a conservative and his subsequent ideological gyrations ) because contrary to rube's claim, I'm a "local" conservative who reads...
(Good ol' rube; even in a rare post where he actually gets something factually right, he still manages to balance it out with something strikingly ignorant....
)
I knew that while Will has said he was influenced by Buckley, and became an admirer and later a friend, Wills on the other hand, had actually worked for Buckley back in the early days of National Review back in the late 50's, and hence could more accurately be described as a "protege"....
I was aware of this, (and Wills' beginnings as a conservative and his subsequent ideological gyrations ) because contrary to rube's claim, I'm a "local" conservative who reads...
(Good ol' rube; even in a rare post where he actually gets something factually right, he still manages to balance it out with something strikingly ignorant....
)