GORE VIDAL - Nails It in a Nutshell...

(Those not familiar with this man, please google "gore vidal" ...and post what you think is essential to discuss.)

...and I'm too tired to Google it. But he predicted that the US would de-centralize and divide by regions. I was struck by it at the time because I'm a westcoaster, and his prediction was WA CA (some others?) and British Columbia.

I remember thinking, "wow."

I'm not sure who wrote Ben Hur, but I believe that was before Vidal's time. On edit: I have an old copy of Ben Hur here at the house and it has the name Wallace on the spine. I can't find the year it was published -- that page must have fallen out.

You are right about Ben Hur: Book - Lewis Wallace, screenplay: Karl Tunberg.

"Suddenly, last summer": Tennessee Williams (play),
Gore Vidal (screenplay).


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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

I love Suddenly, Last Summer. Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn -- that's one hell of a cast!

I like the cast, too:)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

by Lew Wallace, who was a general in the Civil War.

I don't know why I know this, but I do, and i just checked it out on Google.

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He was a general on the union side during the civil war and wrote the book Ben Hur after the war, not sure if it was before or after he became governor.

Edit: Oops! Knew there would be some Duer that knew that!

...I think I read somewhere that David Bowie had an option on it at one point but I don't think the movie was ever made. If it was I never heard about it.
I don't know how Mr. Vidal stands being so prescient...
Anyway, a book worth reading: MESSIAH.
Many good books. I've read JULIAN a few times. He does a few different modes, some I like better than others. I like the essays and the 'historical' novels better than the Waughesque satires but that's just me.
A really good thing about Mr. Vidal is that he writes books that are readable. I like complexity. I don't like complicated. Vidal just writes books that are page-turners but also have depth...a neat trick I'd say.

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hint of what the video says?

it was well worth it and probably would have gone faster if I hadn't been multi-tasking on a couple of other sites at the same time. ;)

Anyway... basically it's Gore Vidal talking about a few different topics: the voting irregularities in OH, 9-11 (how the fighter planes weren't scrambled as they should have been), Saddam/Bin Laden, the media, conspiracy theories, etc.

A lot of the problems we're currently facing are caused by, "too few owners own too few outlets" and the reason the media isn't covering things properly is because they're owned by companies who want to make big money and since the big money is in gov contracts that is who they must make happy to make money.

The last bit I thought was particularly good so I replayed it a few times to transcribe it. It's probably not perfect but it's the best I could do quickly since I don't do short hand just "slow" speed writing: ;)


If you have a bit of time, it really is worth it, use this link for dial-up: http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/gore_vidal/dialup It's not streaming, thank goodness since I'd never be able to stand listening to it. Once it's loaded it's loaded and can be replayed repeatedly. :)

books that I've enjoyed are "Imperial America" and "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace." I particularly enjoyed "PWfPP," subtitled "How We Got to be so Hated"; on page six, he writes, "He is a superb fund-raiser for Allah but only within the Arab world; contrary to legend, he has taken no CIA money." I would think that line should be important food for thought for those progressive democrats who have, for no good reason, subscribed to the myth that Usama bin Laden is a CIA creation.

As I quoted, "Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels and has written films including the classics Ben-Hur and Suddenly, Last Summer."

He wrote screenplays for "Ben-Hur" & "Suddenly, Last Summer."

I think Truman Capote wrote "In Cold Blood," while Vince Bugliosi wrote "Helter Skelter." Gore Vidal didn't.

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that Gore Vidal wrote the classic rock songs for the Archies. Are you sure? Link?

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...did you watch the video -- http://www.iwtnews.com/videoplayer/gore_vidal

wish he had won.

Please watch the video in the OP. Tell me what you think...

and recommended!

:)

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