Gore Vidal News
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Two icons in their twilight all but stole the start of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.
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The 12th Tribeca Film Festival, which opens Wednesday and continues through April 28, may not be the biggest edition ever mounted. Yet it’s still enormous enough to be overwhelming, with 89 feature films, 60 shorts and five interactive projects from 37 countries.
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Gore Vidal, the prolific polemicist of the left whose novels, plays and commentary challenged fellow Americans to rethink textbook lessons about power and patriotism, has died. He was 86.
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The first man on the moon, the first U.S. woman in space and the first black Federal Reserve member were among the notable deaths in 2012.
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After winning control of the House in 2010, Republicans opened the next session of Congress by reading the Constitution. They were drawing on the widespread conservative sense that the U.S. under President Barack Obama was drifting from the principles of its founding leaders and documents.
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Gore Vidal is dead, and the world is a grayer place without his sneer.
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We were sitting around a table, talking about someone we all know, who is very successful in our field. Instinctively, I started in. "He's incredibly full of himself," I said. "And kind of a phony." One of my colleagues, a great mimic, did a spot-on imitation of the way this fellow speaks. We laughed uproariously. The Greek chorus chimed in and piled on. A dig here. A jab...
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Charlie Rose: A tribute to writer Gore Vidal, who died on July 31st
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An unscrupulous, sanctimonious snake vying for his party’s presidential nomination, Senator Joseph Cantwell seems like an uncanny imitation of Rick Santorum, especially as played by Eric McCormack.
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Immerse yourself in some of the numerous and confusing art fairs now taking place in the city.
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