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Vidal, Gore (1925- )US writer and critic. Much of his fiction deals satirically with history and politics and includes the novels Myra Breckinridge (1968), Burr (1973), Empire (1987), The Smithsonian Institution (1998), and The Golden Age (2000). He has written plays and screenplays, including Suddenly Last Summer (1958), and essays, such as ‘Armageddon?’ (1987). His autobiography Palimpsest appeared in 1995. |
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| Some guests at the premiere -- including Andie MacDowell, Thora Birch, Gore Vidal, Don Cheadle and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -- also discussed how to help the orphanage. I love Gore Vidal, and it was a good interview, if too short (Interview by David Barsamian, August issue). More than 40 years ago in a letter to The New York Times on the subject of book-reviewing, the cruelly astute Gore Vidal complained about the practice of "the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions. |
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