Talk:Gore Vidal

Poor old Gore. "The Bridesmaid" I call him because he was quite good at everything but not very good at anything and spent his career passionately attacking those whom he envied. Christopher Hitchens was a better polemicist than him, Truman Capote was a better novelist than him, Noam Chomsky was a better leftist intellectual than him and Ayn Rand was ... well, just better than him. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. --Let Them Eat Cake (talk) 13:33, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

ben hur

It was my understanding that Gore penned the entire screenplay. This makes it sound as though Gore's primary contributions were the homosexual undertones. I don't think it would really have been that ironic if Heston knew or didn't know. Heston was more or less on board with everything the liberals were going for back then, so I don't see how he would've cared. Not really sure Heston said all that much about homosexuality anyway. As for the McVeigh thing, I'm sure Vidal thought he was too good for him. Burkean (talk) 19:54, 4 September 2015 (UTC)

This guy is awesome

The books really are damn good, if a little verbose. I definitely recommend reading his two memoirs; the dude led a super-interesting life.

Too bad he met a bad end... but then, what writer doesn't die in awful obscurity? Plutoniumboss (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

What about the nonceing accusations?

Was there any substance? Scherben (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

Tory? Whig?

Umm...guys? That section about Tories and Whigs? We don't have those parties in the United States. We have Democrats and Republicans. Could somebody please correct that to their closest American approximation? ^{— Unsigned, by: 24.1.199.157 / talk}

The US used to have Whigs (Whig Party (United States)) and Tories (Tory § United States) and the terms could be apposite for someone like Vidal who seemed to be living in a past century. Plus, both terms are linked to articles which explain their meanings, which is about all you could ask for on a wiki. --Annanoon (talk) 08:58, 7 August 2019 (UTC)