In this weekly feature, I'll share with you a weekly guest, and you tell me in only three words what come to mind.
In three words....
Gore Vidal
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
LIVE! LIVE! Life is a banquet, and some sorry sons of bitches are starving!
Liberal resistance fighter
ReplyDeleteLiked his boys.
ReplyDeleteYoung.
writer, bisexual, intellectual
ReplyDeleteResting bitch face.
ReplyDeleteHated Norman Mailer
ReplyDeleteBooks, Novels, Essay's
ReplyDeleteauthor, read, once
ReplyDeleteWrote Myra Breckenridge
ReplyDeleteDid she write back?
DeleteDeeldes is at it again. Keep this up and you'll be on the reboot of Laugh In.
DeleteHated Bobby Kennedy.
ReplyDeleteWho? Miss Vanjie!!!
ReplyDelete(Because it's the first thing that came to mind!)
Also:
Why so glum?
Miss Vanjie seems to be the best answer in any pinch.
DeleteArrogant, opinionated, difficult
ReplyDeleteOR
homosexual in denial
To be fair, he denied heterosexuality, too. He thought everybody was everything. The argument can be made he was an early proponent of what's now called pansexuality. But his personal relationships seemed to be mostly with men.
DeleteQuotations, quotations, quotations!
ReplyDeleteSx
"The four most beautiful words in our common language, I told you so."
Delete(Another bite of the cherry!):-
ReplyDeleteErudite, dense, challenging
And yet another:-
My anti-religion hero! (Well, one of them, anyway).
I do believe one night with him would have been very interesting conversation and a time.
DeleteAnd I'm speaking of a vertical stance of course.
manners, epigrammatic wit, polished
ReplyDeletehatred of Truman Capote.
ReplyDeleteAdroit,Tenacious,Deceptive
ReplyDeletewise, brilliant, clever.
ReplyDeletebrainy-
ReplyDeletebright-
brilliant-
brisk, sharp, shrewd.
ReplyDeleteThe Golden Age
ReplyDeletefucked Jack Kerouac
ReplyDeleteVidal and Norman Mailer--a champion of Beat writers who was nonetheless surprisingly unaware about what so many of those writers had in common--were in a car together when the former made that revelation about Kerouac, and the shock caused Mailer to drive right off the road! It actually hurt Vidal's and Mailer's friendship for a number of years, but I believe they had patched things up by the time of the latter's death.
DeleteBoth of you...what interesting tidbits I did not know of! I do know the Kerouac and Vidal were both very handsome in their young days....can only imagine.
DeletePostwar LGBTQ novelist (The City and the Pillar)
ReplyDeleteMyra Breckenridge writer
historical novelist gadfly (Burr, Empire, Lincoln, etc.)
talk show guest (on everything from Johnny Carson to Charlie Rose)
Tennessee William's friend
William Buckley's nemesis
Truman Capote's nemesis.
Jackie Kennedy's stepbrother (though they didn't grow up together)
Al Gore's cousin (distantly related, Vidal once referred to the 2000 Democratic Presidential nominee as "Cousin Albert")
Sorry to hog so much space here, but this is one fellow whose career I've really followed.
Pssst, Kirk, your fanboy is showing!
DeleteHave you done a post on him Kirk. I would love to read one if you didn't. He was quite interesting and what family connections he had alone.
Deletehttp://wwwshadowofadoubt.blogspot.com/2012/08/in-memoriam-gore-vidal-1925-2012.html
Deleteglobe-trotting paedophile.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I got three more.
ReplyDeleteRan for Congress
Ran for Governor
Lost both times
acid-tongued wit.
ReplyDelete"Others must fail."
ReplyDeleteJx
PS Although others here may believe it to be true, I do not believe these "paedophile" rumours. The accusations were only made by a nephew and a half-sister who were contesting the great man's will. I suggest people read this. Jx