by gary_malcolm » Tue 25 Oct 2005, 13:36:27
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link The guy make Lyndon La Rouche almost look sane.
Once more a Know-Nothing internet nard quoting 'The Nation'. Shocking!
AL - Your comments and criticism of Vidal would be worth more if we had a little background. Have you read his work? Do you know that he is a writer?
Selected bibliography:
* Williwaw, 1946
* In a Yellow Wood, 1947
* City and the Pillar, 1948
* The Season of Comfort, 1949
* Dark Green, Bright Red, 1950
* A Search for the King, 1950
* The Judgement of Paris, 1953
* Messiah, 1955
* Visit to a Small Planet, 1955
* The Catered Affair, 1956 (film script)
* The Left-Handed Gun (teleplay basis only)
* I Accuse!, 1958 (film script - based on Dreyfus affair, see Emile Zola)
* A Thirsty Evil, 1958
* The Scapegoat, 1959 (film script - based on novel by Daphne du Maurier)
* Suddenly Last Summer, 1959 (script, film dir. by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katherine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, based on Tennessee Willams's play)
* The Best Man, 1960 (play)
* Rocking the Boat, 1962
* On the March to the Sea, 1962 (play)
* Romulus, 1963 (play)
* Rocking the Boat, 1963
* Julian, 1964
* Is Paris Burning?, 1966 (script with Francis Ford Coppola, film dir. by Rene Clement, based on international bestseller Paris, brule-t-il? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre)
* Washington D.C., 1967
* Sex, Death, and Money, 1968
* Myra Breckinridge, 1968 - suom. Myra
* Reflections upon a Sinking Ship, 1969
* The Last of the Mobile Hotshots, 1969 (also: Blood Kin, film script, dir. by Sidney Lumet, based on Tennessee Williams's play)
* Myra Breckinridge, 1970 (novel basis only)
* Two Sisters, 1970
* Homage to Daniel Shays, 1972
* An Evening with Richard Nixon, 1972
* Burr, 1974
* Collected Essays, 1974
* Great American Families, 1975 (with others)
* Matters of Fact and Fiction, 1977
* Caligula, 1977 (film script)
* Kalki, 1978
* Sex is Politics and Vice Versa, 1979
* Creation, 1980
* The Second American Revolution, 1982
* Duluth, 1983
* Pink Triangle and Yellow Star, 1982
* Lincoln, 1984
* Empire, 1987
* At Home, 1988
* Armageddon? 1987
* Hollywood, 1989
* A View from the Diners Club, 1991
* Screening History, 1992
* Live from Golgatha, 1992
* Screening History, 1993
* United States: Essays 1952-1992, 1993
* Palimpsest, 1995
* The Smithsonian Institution, 1998
* Gore Vidal Sexually Speaking, 1999 (ed. by Donald Weise)
* The Essential Gore Vidal, 1999 (ed. by Fred Kaplan)
* The Golden Age, 2000
* The Last Empire, 2001
* Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, 2002
* Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta, 2002
* Inventing a Nation, 2003
You really should have more humility that to haphazardly attack the opinions of those whose eloquence and track record so blantantly outshine yours as to make you look like the scrounging little worm you probably are.
G