#OTD 1974: Malcolm Muggeridge and Gore Vidal debated the permissive society

#OnThisDay 1964: 'We have a delicate Scott Fitzgerald type who goes to Hollywood to make money and becomes corrupted and takes to drink, and he dies.'

Gore Vidal appeared on Tonight to talk American writing.

#OnthisDay1925 : Gore Vidal was born. Here he is, live from the 1980 Edinburgh Festival talking about politics, the apocalypse and retirement.

#OTD 1925: Gore Vidal was born. Here he is on Parkinson in 1972, focusing his mordant wit on the Longford Report

Returning to this platform solely to boost a message of peace from Gore’s friend

“Five and a half billion people now clutter a small planet built for two. Simply to maintain the breeders in the United States we have managed to poison all our water. Yes, all of it.”
from the essay ‘The Birds and the Bees’(1991) by Gore Vidal

#RIP #OTD in 2012, writer (Myra Breckinridge,The City and the Pillar), screenwriter (Ben-Hur), playwright Gore Vidal died at his home in Hollywood Hills, California of complications from pneumonia at the age of 86. Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C. thefinalfootprint.com/2023/07/31/day…

'Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.'

✒ #GoreVidal , American novelist, screenwriter, and critic, #DOTD 31 July 2012. #Literature #Filmmaking

Il #31luglio 2012 moriva #GoreVidal . Polemico anticonformista, critico dell’imperialismo Usa, esperto di politica, legato ai Kennedy, visse a lungo sulla costiera amalfitana. Scrittore litigioso, pronto allo scontro ideologico: La statua di sale, Myron, In diretta dal Golgota.

31 July 2012. Leading US novelist and public intellectual, Gore Vidal, died (aged 86). His polished and erudite novels often explored the nature of corruption in public and private life and include The City and the Pillar, Julian, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln.

Un 31 de julio muere
🖋️ #GoreVidal (1925-2012)
Novelista, ensayista y periodista de corrosiva pluma
Pensador crítico con el estilo de vida
y política de su país.
Sin duda, uno de los grandes escritores
de la #Literatura estadounidense contemporánea
Fue un eterno candidato al Nobel

July 31st 2012
American novelist, playwright, and essayist Gore Vidal died at 86. He was noted for his irreverent and intellectually adroit novels.

Eleven years and we mark the occasion with a photo, a few words, and a link to a Salon piece from 2013:

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#RIP Screenwriter Bo Goldman.

Two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two WGA Awards and the WGA Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.

Pic: Goldman with Gore Vidal, Richard Brooks and Billy Wilder during the 1981 Writers Guild strike.

#WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrong

Here Gore Vidal talks of many things but one is how LA ripped up its mass transit system in order to force people to use cars

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So many of Gore's essays are as relevant today as the day they were written.
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Edoardo Fanfani I can think of one American - the late #GoreVidal - who would entirely agree with Edoardo Fanfani.

Revisiting the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision today: facebook.com/10006379129991…