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• Gore Vidal: Polanksi rapee “a young hooker”

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 150
  November 2, 2009Polanski/Goldberg/rape postsSource: (10-26) The Atlantic JOHN MERONEY This is disgusting. Not only that Vidal would think and say such a thing but that the Atlantic would print it.His words speak for themselves. The 13 y/o Polanski raped was a hooker and Polanksi was wrongly accused because of ...
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• Chekhov, Vidal, Swift

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 487
  Literary peanuts from The Spectator : British novelist Anita Brookner in “ Christmas Books: I ” in The Spectator : My absolute favourite is a reprint: Janet Malcolm’s Reading Chekhov. A Critical Journey (Granta, £8.99) which comes prefaced with a memorable Chekhovian observation: ‘What torture it is to ...
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• Gore Vidal on the Romans: “They don’t care if you live or die. They’re like cats.”

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  Gore Vidal makes a cameo appearance in Federico Fellini’s Roma   (1972):
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• Colum McCann Takes NBA Fiction Prize

  
  Bibliobibuli — Authority: 425
  The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York ...
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• The 2009 National Book Award Winners

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 583
  You can follow Jeffs account of the National Book Awards gala from press row in his running comments to his post earlier tonight , but heres a quick wrapup of the winners, which include, were thrilled to say, our own choice for the Best Book of 2009 , Let the Great World Spin , Colum McCanns tender ensemble novel ...
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• Gore Vidal: Awardee, Storyteller, Godfather

  
  ArtsBeat — Authority: 791
  Gore Vidal, the novelist, social critic, and bon vivant, received the award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book Awards on Wednesday night.
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• Now Starring | Art in Los Angeles

  
  The Moment — Authority: 703
  For a city that often gets knocked for being starved for culture, Los Angeles served up an all-you-can-eat buffet this past week.
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• News: Donnie McClurkin, Purdue, Guidos, Cheesecake Factory

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 752
  Longtime HIVAIDS activist Howard Jacobs dies in L.A. at 45 . The surface of Mars as revealed by orbiter . New MTV reality series to feature Jersey shore house " full of the hottest, tannest, craziest Guidos ." Purdue students protest professor Bert Chapmans blog post arguing the "economic ...
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• Gore Vidal: a life in pictures

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Gore Vidals extraordinary scrapbook features snapshots of life with Jagger Warhol and the Newmans says David Jenkins.
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• Gore Vidals scrapbook: a not very social life

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Gore Vidals extraordinary scrapbook features snapshots of life with Jagger Warhol and the Newmans.
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• When Gore Met Amelia

  
  Studio 360 Blog — Authority: 122
  If you’re planning to see “Amelia,” the new Amelia Earhart biopic now in theaters, keep an eye out for recent “Studio 360″ guest Gore Vidal — or at least the actor playing him. The film takes place long before he became notorious for his envelope-pushing novels and on-air political smackdowns with ...
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• Overheard: Messing around

  
  Of a Golden Age — Authority: 128
  Goldblog linked to this Atlantic interview with genius and notorious rabblerouser Gore Vidal. As much as Vidal waxes hateful, this soundbyte lines up with my belief exactly: Have you met President Clinton? Yes – and I like Bill. My family is Southern. I’m used to Bill Clintons. The country apparently ...
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• NewsBusted: How Big is the Health Care Bill?

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 797
  [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] In this episode, “NewsBusted” covers: Health Care Bill, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, Consumer Option, President Obama, George W. Bush, World Series, Gore Vidal, Justin Timberlake, and Bruce Jenner.
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• Gang-Rape at Homecoming: Was She Asking For It?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 613
  Like most things in the 21st century, mudslinging has gone digital.
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• Serious offers and old gossip

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 483
  Just another sane Monday in movieland. * Halcyon, a somewhat odd firm with an all but empty website, has officially put its one and only asset and reason for being, the rights to “The Terminator” franchise, on the auction block. So reports Variety and Nikki Finke . Suddenly, over at Whedonesque — ...
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• "The only genius with an IQ of 60."

  
  Daily Cow — Authority: 163
  “The only genius with an IQ of 60.” - Gore Vidal (about Andy Warhol)
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• FT today: RTK on Robert Harriss Lustrum

  
  Richard T Kelly — Authority: 456
  My short-ish write-up of Harriss second Cicero novel runs in the Financial Times today. This was my first real encounter with Harriss bestselling storytelling, though Ive long been a big fan of his non-fiction, especially his books on Neil Kinnock and Bernard Ingham, both of which evoke brilliantly a world of ...
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• Vile Vidal

  
  Kiwiblog — Authority: 616
  AP reports : A French lawyer for director Roman Polanski, imprisoned in Switzerland, says a new bail offer will be filed today and it will be a “very, very significant” cash amount. He is trying to buy his freedom. It is almost inevitable he will flee back to France, even if it costs him millions of ...
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• Raging Aging Queen Gore Vidal Kvetches About Shit Nobody Cares About

  
  David Drake — Authority: 431
  These raging aging Queens like Gore Vidal never go away, do they? Vidal, of whom was called "a queer," by the late great William F. Buckley ( transcript here and video here ) is talking to The Atlantic : Atlantic : You said earlier this month that you now wish you had supported Hillary Clinton in ...
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• Vidal on Polanski

  
  KN@PPSTER — Authority: 512
  From a new interview in The Atlantic : I really don’t give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of? Wow. Harsh. And unless you actually read the whole interview yourself, thats the only part of it youll ever hear about. Which is a ...
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