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Entries Tagged as 'Gore Vidal'

Roundup: Maracas and Purple Pants Edition

Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 24th, 2008 at 4:59 am

Just a few things that are on my radar at the moment …

• First up, I just found this interview with Gore Vidal from May, in which he gives his current takes on Obama and McCain.
Vidal says he’s a fan of Obama now, but it took him a while to get there (hey, kinda like […]

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Norman Mailer Yap Attack

Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

The most entertaining Norman Mailer story I’ve read since the wake began:
“The stories of his macho posturing are legion, from the time he dismissed America’s leading women writers as ‘fey, old hat, quaintsy and dykily psychotic’, to the day he encountered a passing punk while walking his poodles in Brooklyn. According to Peter Manso’s biography […]

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300 Director Pushes Gay Panic Button

Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 16th, 2007 at 3:27 am

I wasn’t really planning to see 300 anyway, because it just looks kind of — to use a French expression — stupid. But now I’m going to really enjoy not seeing it, thanks to the Best Gay Day Ever blog on AfterElton.com, which reports that the director of this brain-dead toga party, one Zack Snyder, […]

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Tags: LGBT · Film · Gore Vidal