Gore Vidal
Birthday: 1925-10-03
Place of Birth: West Point, New York, USA
Biography: Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit. His novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He unsuccessfully sought office twice as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U.S. House of Representatives (for New York), and later in 1982 to the U.S. Senate (for California). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gore Vidal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Gattaca
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Bob Roberts
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Thinking XXX
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Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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Suddenly, Last Summer
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Shadow Conspiracy
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Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No
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Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversia...
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Norman Mailer: The American
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Paul Bowles: The Cage Door Is Always Open
The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. ...
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Standing Army
Standing Army, directed by Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi, is an award-winning documentary film abou...
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Revisiting Brideshead
Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's...
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A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'
A Documentary on the Making of 'Gore Vidal's Caligula'...
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The Celluloid Closet
Exuberant, eye-opening movie that serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men a...
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Best of Enemies
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great p...
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Public Speaking
Martin Scorsese’s portrait of writer and social commentator Fran Lebowitz, celebrated for her sharp ...
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Trailer for a Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula
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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentar...
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek lege...
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With Honors
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Ten Year Old Boy Pilot
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Why We Fight
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Shrink
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Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most fa...
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and ...
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Inside Deep Throat
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In Search of Oz
BBC 2 produced this documentary on the Oz books of L. Frank Baum and the films and fantasies that th...
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The Education of Gore Vidal
A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal's extraor...
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The Cockettes
Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenom...
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Salinger
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), ...
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The Great Depression: A Job at Ford's
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The Best Man
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Valentino's Ghost
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Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She
Examines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scie...
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High Tech Lincoln
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Billy the Kid
Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Tel...
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Rescued from the Closet
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1...
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The Homosexuals
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One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern
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The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don't ask, don't tell» where sexual or...
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