Gore Vidal
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Nicholas Wrathall, Director of the film Gore Vidal poses at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013 portrait studio on April 20, 2013 in New York City.
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I watched him over the years and went to New York and saw him in Gore Vidal's The Best Man . He was awfully good in it, and it occurred to me that he might be a really good Jim Hacker. I expected him to bring a great deal to the role and that's what he's doing.
We both subscribe to Gore Vidal's edict: 'It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.'
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Gore Vidal - The United States Of Amnesia (Ptown Film Festival)
Nicholas Wrathall’s exquisite panegyric opens in a cemetery, where the famed writer and muckraker reflects over his tombstone, his 1925 birth year inscribed on the left, with 2012 soon to be added on the other side. The 90-minute documentary is a Gore Vi from EDGE Boston Read more »
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Trailer For J.D. Salinger Documentary Arrives Online [VIDEO]
Writer and director Shane Salerno has gone on a quest of discovery, seeking out information about the mysterious author J.D. Salinger, who stopped publishing in the 1960s and lived a life of near solitude from then on. Salerno's efforts have culminated i from Screen Rush UK Read more »
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Gore Vidal and John Banville: Literary authors who have written under crime pseudonyms
Gore Vidal took the name Edgar Box for three novels in the 1940s (Picture: UPPA) Cecil Day-Lewis as Nicholas Blake The Poet Laureate wrote 20 detective fictions between 1935 and 1968 using the name Nicholas Blake – the first four reissued last year by Vi from Metro.co.uk Read more »
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6 Steps to a Long Career from 'Yes, Prime Minister's' Michael McKean
Michael McKean likes to keep busy. With his new show "Family Tree" currently airing on HBO, McKean is now following up his performance in "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" on Broadway with political comedy "Yes, Prime Minister" at the Geffen Playhouse. McKean' from Backstage Read more »
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Ed Garvey: NSA gathers data on us, and people shrug
What will it take to awaken the American people? We now know that the National Security Agency has been operating secret programs to learn more and more about all of us. They've been gathering data on phone calls and collecting other information from com from Madison.com Read more »
