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Frédéric Malle's discreet Editions de Parfums shop on the rue du Mont Thabor, Paris, feels more like a gentleman's library than one of the world's most distinguished perfumeries. One wall is lined with two oak bookcases filled, higgledy-piggledy, with books by authors from Stendhal to Gore Vidal. In the centre is a large, dark wooden desk, and on the mantelpiece, black-and-white photographs of distinguished-looking...
There's so much evidence coming in now I'm finding it hard to actually keep up with it. Italian film-maker Giulietto Chiesa was in Berlin at the weekend for a screening of his film which features, among others, novelist Gore Vidal and playwright Dario Fo as well as retired American professor of philosophy David Ray Griffin who advances conspiracy theories that contradict mainstream accounts of events...
The obsession with time travel began with that first viewing of “Back to the Future” in my parents’ living room. The movie triggered an avalanche of questions, beginning with… What were my parents like when they were young? …followed by… What was it really like in [insert distant year in the past]? …proceeded by… Can a person really shape and [...]
It can't be too happy this year for the great man-- not only did his friendly competitor, Norman Mailer, pass away within the last 12 months, but one of his best friends, Paul Newman (also 83) died this very...
Does the palpable ignorance around the election make you want to learn more about this country’s history? In its December 2004 issue, American Heritage published an extensive and valuable bibliography of American history. So here it is, certainly the most challenging editorial task we’ve ever attempted—and one of the most rewarding. We have drawn on the [...]
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cmt/ This collection consists of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years. The “Connie Martinson Talks Books” television series originates from L.A. CityView Channel 35 and can be seen on government-access cable outlets around the country and PBS in New York. Included in the collection...
Malcolm McDowell stars as the insane Roman emperor in the notorious, uncut version of Tinto Brass's 'porn' epic produced by 'Penthouse' boss Bob Guccione. Read our review. Rating:2
PAUL NEWMAN not only outlasted virtually all of the major stars who re-invented screen acting after World War II - Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Burt Lancaster - but was bigger than any of them. The impossibly handsome, blue-eyed...
Somebody - Gore Vidal, perhaps - once said "everything changes except the avant garde ." Something similar could be said of much of the debate about nuclear power. This was illustrated in an exchange this morning on the Today programme between Mark Lynas, now an advocate of nuclear power, and Caroline Lucas of the Green party. Mark Lynas, repeating the arguments put forward by the nuclear industry...
At the Aug. 28, 1968 debate on TV in Chicago between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal - with an estimated 10 million people watching - things began with relative calm. But it didn’t stay that way, and before long the men began exchanging words that one simply nevered heard on TV at that time. Vidal called Buckley a “pro-crypto-Nazi,” a modest slip of the tongue, he later said, because he was...
It was only Saturday and yet there was a religious programme already being broadcast yesterday on BBC Radio 4, where a congregation of sycophants had assembled to worship Gore Vidal, the ageing comic singer distinguished less for his writing than for having, with marvellous acumen, been wrong about everything in American public life for most of the past century.
Vidal: "Everybody with an IQ above room temperature is on to the con act of our media. They are obeying bigger, richer interests than informing the public -- which is the last thing that corporate America has ever been interested in doing." Interview by Paul Jay (The Real News).
ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government’s account. Featuring [...]
In his first film, Valentino: The Last Emperor , a feature documentary about the archetypically vain and temperamental Roman couturier, director Matt Tyrnauer manages to look into the heart of a sequined ruffle and discover a soul.
ADAM MCKAY ON THE HUFFINGTON POST: Something is not right. We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate. We’re coming off the worst eight years in our country’s history. Six of those eight years the Congress, White House and even the Supreme Court were controlled by the Republicans and the last two [...]
