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April 11, 2012
The Best Man: Political Party Animals
It's presidential-campaign showbiz in a Gore Vidal revival
Blogs
April 11, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
April 2, 2012
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 >>
Blogs
February 2, 2012
The Best Man's Amazing Cast Speaks
Broadway.comGore 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 >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
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 >>
Film
September 7, 2011
Roman's Ruins: Polanski at MOMA
Past is prologue for the filmmaker
Blogs
July 12, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
November 12, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
May 4, 2010
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 >>
Voice Choices
April 27, 2010
The Best Man
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 >>
Blogs
February 4, 2010
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 >>
Blogs
January 20, 2010
Clip Job: Norman Mailer's Requiem for Jack Ruby
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 5, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 12 A Requiem For the Rube By Norman Mailer Editorials are best in the brief cause they are jockey shorts -- designed to hold up the balls of the American public. So here's a brief on the death of Jack t ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
August 11, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
August 7, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
April 14, 2009
"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 >>
Theater
January 28, 2009
Authorial License Hangs Over Edmund White's Terre Haute
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 >>
Columns
September 17, 2008
Free Will Astrology: September 17 to 23
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 >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
MONDAY | 6.2
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 >>
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
THE COCKETTE INVASION
Fleet Week for fags
Theater
March 4, 2008
Spring Theater Preview: The Sound and the Fury, An Idiot's Tale
ERS follows up Fitzgerald with Faulkner
Film
March 4, 2008
Myra Breckinridge
The Queer Precursor to Southland Tales
Voice Choices
March 4, 2008
SO BAD IT'S GOOD?
A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation
Blogs
February 27, 2008
William F. Buckley (1926-2008)
A notoriously bad film finally gets some appreciation
Theater
May 15, 2007
1907, 1957, and...Now?
Welcome to Off-Off-Broadway's newest theatrical discovery—the past
Books
January 23, 2007
The Devil You Know, The Devil You Don't
Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family
Blogs
October 5, 2006
Rallies Today: World Can't Wait--for What?
Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family
Columns
March 14, 2006
NY Mirror
Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family
News
February 14, 2006
Hunger of Memory
New York has become a city of ghosts haunting us all
Film
September 27, 2005
Smoke and Mirrors
Foe McCarthy: Clooney's compact, conscientious paean to a bygone era of principles
NYC Life
March 8, 2005
Girl Gone Wild: The Unique Life and Lineage of Anaïs Nin
Foe McCarthy: Clooney's compact, conscientious paean to a bygone era of principles
Film
November 16, 2004
Natural Born Killer
Tousled bleach jobs, one-eyed stiffs: Neo-epic drops its veils but keeps the nookie offscreen
Columns
October 19, 2004
NY Mirror
Tousled bleach jobs, one-eyed stiffs: Neo-epic drops its veils but keeps the nookie offscreen
News
August 10, 2004
Alien vs. Predator
What the McGreevey mess means for closets, corruption, and casting couches
News
July 20, 2004
My Website, My Self
When a writer hangs up her Internet shingle, fans go wild. And order ottomans.
Books
September 30, 2003
No Feelings
Midwestern rock critic and greatest living American writer defeat their designations
News
April 16, 2002
C'est la Vidal
Midwestern rock critic and greatest living American writer defeat their designations
Music
August 28, 2001
How To Be Smug
Nick (Out) of Time
Theater
August 28, 2001
Caught in the Fact
Nick (Out) of Time
News
August 21, 2001
Nation
Nick (Out) of Time
News
May 8, 2001
Nation
Nick (Out) of Time
Theater
November 14, 2000
The Next-Best Man
Nick (Out) of Time
Columns
October 10, 2000
NY Mirror
Nick (Out) of Time
Columns
September 26, 2000
NY Mirror
Nick (Out) of Time
Books
September 26, 2000
I Love Murakami
Nick (Out) of Time
Theater
September 26, 2000
Conventional Behavior
Nick (Out) of Time
NYC Life
August 29, 2000
Left Out
Aiding the Middle Class
Books
February 29, 2000
Soft Gore
Aiding the Middle Class
News
July 27, 1999
Eyes Wide Shut
Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype
Theater
January 26, 1999
Home Games
Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype
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