US author Gore Vidal dies aged 86

BBC ^ | August 1, 2012

[Jyotishi]

He was looking for an actress he wanted to interview and called my company once during the ‘70s. He was rude and arrogant. That was the only phone call we accepted from him.

[moonshot925]

Good riddance you filthy communist.

[laweeks]

May God have mercy on his America-hating, homosexual, moonbat-leftist soul

[Moltke]

From the movie In the Loop:

Karen: So you read Liza's paper I guess.
General Miller: I am a voracious reader. I'm the Gore Vidal of the Pentagon.
Karen: Gore's gay.
General Miller: No he's not.
Karen: I beg to differ but...
General Miller: He's gay? Cos I've been saying that Gore Vidal line a lot.
Karen: He is gay.
General Miller: Guess I'd better stop saying that then.

[muir_redwoods]

Equally important is that it’s time to rearrange my sock drawer.

[wideawake]

Completely agree. I never found his fiction engaging, but he was a trenchant essayist - superior in my mind to Wilson and Mencken.

[LS]

Not politically correct: won’t miss him a bit.

[PowderMonkey]

Watching interviews of him always left me with a sense of sadness. Here, no doubt, was a profoundly unhappy man. A nasty embittered old queen, who spent his last years living in hotels.

[Chode]

feh...

[Farmer Dean]

“Obama can’t afford to lose votes!”
Obama isn’t worried,the vast majority of dead voters go Democrat.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Myra Breckenridge,***

Myra bombed big at the box office. Vidal also wrote the screenplay for the hardcore porno flick CALIGULA.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066115/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080491/

So we see his mind was in the gutter.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for a misguided soul.

[Borges]

Onion headline regarding Vidal:  “Last Person To Voluntarily Write Essay Dies”