Here’s the article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/genre/article/56/2/209/381060/Gore-Vidal-s-Live-from-Golgotha-and-the-Limits-of?guestAccessKey=4994a1f3-8050-4ddc-938f-f6676d5407f5 #gorevidal #historicalfiction

My new article about #gorevidal is out. https://read.dukeupress.edu/genre/article-abstract/56/2/209/381060/Gore-Vidal-s-Live-from-Golgotha-and-the-Limits-of

One of the highlights of my trip so far has been going with my partner to listen to jazz at the Bamboo Bar, located in the Madarin Oriental (the hotel #gorevidal stayed at during his visits to the country)

On June 22, 1970, Myra Breckinridge premiered in Los Angeles. Here’s some Raquel Welch fan art!
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#MyraBreckinridge #GoreVidal #RaquelWelch #QueerFilm #QueerCinema #SexploitationFilm #1960s #CultMovies #MovieArt #MovieHistory

Useless quote for 20 Mar:

"World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual."

~ Gore Vidal, "Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars" (essay, 1959)

#UselessQuote #GoreVidal

🎬 #Queer #Film #History | #VitoRusso pioneered the study of how #LGBTQ+ folks were portrayed in movies. In 1995, his book "The Celluloid Closet" was made into an award-winning doc.

▶️ Often #queerness in film was relegated to subtext, as it was in "Ben Hur" screening now @ #TCM. In this clip, screenwriter #GoreVidal reveals the queer subtext of the relationship between #BenHur and #Masala only one of the actors knew about.

#movies #classicmovies #Interpretation https://youtu.be/hfaIzmoIkEc

Today in Labor History February 19, 1807: The authorities arrested former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason. They alleged that he was behind a plot to create an independent country in the southwest of the U.S., but had to acquit him for lack of evidence. Some believed he intended to take Texas or all of Mexico, but accounts vary as to how many supporters he had (anywhere from 40 to 7,000). In 1808, he traveled to England and attempted to garner support for a revolution in Mexico. The Brits kicked him out of the country. Prior to all this, while still vice president he had killed Alexander Hamilton in an illegal duel. He was never tried and all charges against him were dropped. Gore Vidal wrote an historical novel, “Burr,” written in the form of a memoir by Burr. The novel undoes the traditional hagiographies of America’s founding fathers, portraying them as the greedy, self-serving and often times incompetent men they really were. It was the first in his Narratives of Empire series.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #AaronBurr #Revolution #mexico #hamilton #duel #GoreVidal #memoir #hisfic #HistoricalFiction @bookstadon

On 2023 Feb.15 actress and #sexsymbol #RachelWelch neé Jo Raquel Tejada died
She was 82 years old.
Her first role was in Roustabout a movie of 1964 with #ElvisPresley
The pic in the toot is from film #MyraBreckinridge based in a controversial book by #GoreVidal
where main character undergoes a clinical sex-change

#RaquelWelch reminiscing about her #MyraBreckenridge costar #MaeWest

"She's got a lot of chutzpah and she's completely bonkers."

https://www.altfg.com/film/raquel-welch-myra-breckenridge/

#GoreVidal's satirical novel is excellent. #MichaelSarne's 1970 #movie version was a critical & #boxoffice cataclysm.

#Novel #Cinema #Adaptation #movies #classicmovies

#BOTD #LeslieNielsen who revived old school comedy with the Zucker/Abrahams team in AIRPLANE!
I was listening to an old #GoreVidal interview from 1984 and he named it as a recommendation!

#screwballcomedy

#gorevidal

The National Security State - Gore Vidal 03-18-1998

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xxyOpQbAz4E

#gorevidal #nationalsecuritystate

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1997/11/01/the-last-empire

[1971] The Dick Cavett Show - The Infamous feud between Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal over an essay the latter had written in The New York Review of Books in which he lambasted Mailer’s positions on women’s lib and even lumped him in with the violently misogynistic Charles Manson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1w_qoioOk

#OldBritishTelly #FreeForAllFriday #GoreVidal #NormalMailer

Yesterday a local rando looked at me in utter shock and said "you are the fair copy of Raquel Welch! Did no one ever told you that?", to which I said "no, they have not! Thank you, local rando in a bar, in daylight!".

(People I write for have no idea what I look like. Here's a picture of Raquel Welch as Myra Breckinridge.)

#gorevidal

@MichCiurria one of my all-time favorite #films! In one of those blink-and-you-miss-it moments, #GoreVidal himself shows up in the movie!

When politics wasn’t a team sport | Financial Times

Put it this way. If you tell me what you think about, say, the return of the Benin bronzes, I can infer with some confidence your views on public spending, the EU, rail strikes, immigration, working from home, climate change, Meghan Markle and much else. Nothing connects these subjects.

https://www.ft.com/content/f8f47860-388a-4da0-afa7-6098b73f86b5

#politics #partisanship #GoreVidal

When politics wasn’t a team sport | Financial Times

Put it this way. If you tell me what you think about, say, the return of the Benin bronzes, I can infer with some confidence your views on public spending, the EU, rail strikes, immigration, working from home, climate change, Meghan Markle and much else. Nothing connects these subjects.

https://www.ft.com/content/f8f47860-388a-4da0-afa7-6098b73f86b5

#politics #partisanship #GoreVidal

"[if the blue collar worker of the] 48% who do vote were united with the 75% [of the blue collar workers] who don't vote, there would be a large, American Labor Party, something that every democratic country has, but we do not."

--Gore Vidal

#gorevidal #labor

"[What we have] is actually a one party system with two wings. The only difference between the two wings is that Democrats tend to be conservative and Republicans tend to be reactionary."

--Gore Vidal

#gorevidal #america #democrats #republicans #politics

#gorevidal #ethics #prostitution