Obit: Gore Vidal

Subject: Obit: Gore Vidal....
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 08:38 AM

Wow......The man is gone but the words will live on.......Times Obit


Spaw

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From: Bobert
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 08:53 AM

Bummer... He always had a progressive twist to his writings...

B~

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:24 AM

Gore Vidal... on US politicians

"The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since."

The man was a genius at turning phrases.

RIP GV

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From: Stu
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:35 AM

A brilliant, brilliant man. Will be sadly missed.

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From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:41 AM

Mr. Vidal loved conspiracy theories of all sorts, especially the ones he imagined himself at the center of, and he was a famous feuder; he engaged in celebrated on-screen wrangles with Mailer, Capote and William F. Buckley Jr. Mr. Vidal did not lightly suffer fools — a category that for him comprised a vast swath of humanity, elected officials especially . . .

I definitely remember this about him! But also his talent.

RIP

SRS

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From: GUEST,999
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 09:58 AM

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done:
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

WS, Sonnet 35

Subject: RE: Obit: Gore Vidal....
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 10:01 AM

Lily Tomlin takes a whack at Mr. Veedul. :)

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From: voyager
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 02:34 PM

Lincoln - a fine book
Myra Breckenridge - a scream
Remember the work, not the man.

BTW - was he a Folk Musician too?
RIP Mr. Gore

voyager

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From: gnu
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 03:41 PM

Another. RIP

Subject: RE: Obit: Gore Vidal....
From: katlaughing
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 03:56 PM

What an interesting and full life he led and what a lot of creativity he left for all of us. Thanks for the link, Spaw.

SRS, Tomlin is hilarious as always. Thanks for adding that.

RIP,

kat

Subject: RE: Obit: Gore Vidal....
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Aug 12 - 05:19 PM

In somewhat the same way I listened to Mailer, Buckley and Vidal.   Each of them was brilliant, acerbic and lofty. All gone now. Who is to take their place?

Subject: RE: Obit: Gore Vidal....
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 03:43 AM

I seem to remember contributing to a thread having read Lincoln. And somewhere in the mists of time, i think i read one about Billy the Kid.

He was a regular on chat shows over here - very witty, always 'nicely turned out' - as they sy in Lancashire, coiffured and elegance personified.

I always associated him with that very swish literary artistic set - Isherwood, David hockney etc.

Strange name really....gore....in England it would have marred him for life....Gore Blimey!

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From: bobad
Date: 02 Aug 12 - 07:51 AM

His birth name - Eugene Luther Gore Vidal - distantly related to Al Gore.