Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal Didn't Believe In Sex Mixed With Love

The fiery career of author, historian, wit, and "controversialist" Gore Vidal is chronicled in the documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, which I just caught (most of) at the Tribeca Film Festival, and which is filled with his bristling observations. Among Gore's more provocative ut ... More >>

Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Ably Fill Lincoln's Hat

A tall, tall film

Are More Celebrities Dying These Days?

Or am I just reading the obits more? All in July and August, there's been the sad passing of Andy Griffith, Ernest Borgnine, Norah Ephron, Ron Palillo, Sage Stallone, Sherman Hemlsey, Celeste Holm, Joan Roberts, David Rakoff, Judith Christ, Anna Piaggi, Maeve Binchy, Mark O'Donnell, Sylvia Woods, M ... More >>

Gore Vidal Gave Me Great Clark Gable Dish

In 2006, I interviewed noted author Gore Vidal--who just died--for Out magazine. And one of the juiciest things he relayed to me was the reason gay director George Cukor was bumped as director of the petticoats-and-brimstone classic Gone With The Wind. Cukor had personally told Vidal that Clark Ga ... More >>

The Tony Awards Are Over! My Roundup

Here are the highlights from my very vivid three-hour viewing experience. Hold your applause till the end: Interviewed on the red carpet, Tyne Daly dismissively said the Tonys are a race meant for everyone else, "not for us." She wasn't nominated. How bad were the musicals this year? So bad that ... More >>

The Best Man: Political Party Animals

It's presidential-campaign showbiz in a Gore Vidal revival

This Week in the Voice: Sandhogs Under Second Avenue

This week in the Voice, out today: Sean Manning follows the Second Avenue sandhogs: "Here for 470 million years there had been rock, there are now two 20-foot diameter, butter-smooth concrete tubes--a giant, mile-long double-barrel shotgun buried 100 feet below the Upper East Side... Scant attention ... More >>

Stanley Kowalski Has Dropped The "Kowalski"

As you know, Tennessee Williams' culture-clash classic A Streecar Named Desire is coming to Broadway any moment now, featuring a cast of color. Well, at a Drama Desk panel discussion at Sardi's the other day, Blair Underwood--who's playing the old Brando role, the brutish Stanley Kowalski--said he' ... More >>

The Best Man's Amazing Cast Speaks

Broadway.com​Gore Vidal's The Best Man is the chestnut about about the power machinations of various Presidential candidates, some of whom are willing to go farther than others when it comes to negative campaigning. (Sound familiar, news followers?) Well, the imminent Broadway revival is ca ... More >>

Christopher Hitchens is Dead. Long Live Hitch.

​Less than an hour ago NPR reported that Christopher Hitchens had finally succumbed to his battle with cancer. Tomorrow, at a decent hour, I will search through the Voice archives for some of his pieces. At one point he wrote the Press Clips column, but whether it was before or after Alexand ... More >>

Roman's Ruins: Polanski at MOMA

Past is prologue for the filmmaker

The 10 Best Bitchy Comments Of All Time

​Who would know better than me? The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows: 10) "She doesn't write, she types!" (Gore Vidal re popular author Jackie Susann) 9) "She looks like a truck driver in drag." (Truman Capote re the very same ... More >>

Jill Johnston (1929-2010): 'Sappho is rising'

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 14, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 2 Dance Journal By Jill Johnston LEUCADIA: 20 miles north of San Diego...because we're sitting here splitting fields and relaxing together and Pauline Oliveros is playing me a tape of a performance of he ... More >>

Why I Loved Lynn Redgrave

​She was such a fine actress and esteemed wit--one of those people you wanted to have around forever, to elevate the culture just by entering a room. Finding her own niche within one of the most illustrious acting dynasties of all time, Lynn exploded in 1967's Georgy Girl, in which she was th ... More >>

The Best Man

Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination

Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend.​ Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #9: Artists Joined The Farm League

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Reason #10 is here. This is #9.   Name your favorite artists of the past decade. Tough one, huh? The Voice plays the best-of-decade game in the current issue, and we salute the fine crit ... More >>

Clip Job: Schlesinger Vs. Vidal

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 15, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 52Schlesinger vs. VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsArthur Schlesinger, Jr., liberal historian-cum-political pamphleteer, touched base at the Village Independent Democrats last week. And like his mission in behalf of Jac ... More >>

Clip Job: Gore Vidal Really Doesn't Like RFK for Senator

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 1, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 50Bobby is Not 'Best Man' for Playwright VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsThe author of "The Best Man" stood on a sidewalk at 74th Street and Madison Avenue on a rainy Monday and told TV and newspapermen that the best ma ... More >>

"Why Don't They Just Burn The Books?": AmazonFail Ramps Up

The AmazonFail drama continues, with the beleaguered company now claiming that "an embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error" was what lead tens of thousands of books to disappear in searches and, by all accounts worse, lose their sales rankings. Books in particular that trended towards gay and l ... More >>

Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute

Free Will Astrology: September 17 to 23

MONDAY | 6.2

THE COCKETTE INVASION

Fleet Week for fags

Myra Breckinridge

The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales

SO BAD IT'S GOOD?

A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation

William F. Buckley (1926-2008)

1907, 1957, and...Now?

Welcome to Off-Off-Broadway's newest theatrical discovery—the past

The Devil You Know, The Devil You Don't

Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family

NY Mirror

Hunger of Memory

New York has become a city of ghosts haunting us all

Smoke and Mirrors

Foe McCarthy: Clooney's compact, conscientious paean to a bygone era of principles

Girl Gone Wild: The Unique Life and Lineage of Anaïs Nin

Natural Born Killer

Tousled bleach jobs, one-eyed stiffs: Neo-epic drops its veils but keeps the nookie offscreen

NY Mirror

My Website, My Self

When a writer hangs up her Internet shingle, fans go wild. And order ottomans.

No Feelings

Midwestern rock critic and greatest living American writer defeat their designations

C'est la Vidal

How To Be Smug

Nick (Out) of Time

Caught in the Fact

Nation

The Next-Best Man

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

I Love Murakami

Conventional Behavior

Left Out

Aiding the Middle Class

Soft Gore

Eyes Wide Shut

Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype

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