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Fan Rant: The Big Screen Needs More Gore Vidal

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2008-06-19 17:02:00 by Monika Bartyzel in Cinematical
...Vidal . I was a teen bored with the literature at school, as well as the fluff young-adult horror I was reading in my spare time, when I somehow stumbled on his book. Vidal's words were a beacon of light. Sure, there is more to Myra than rabid, powerful, and Amazonian femininity, but that was irrelevant because Vidal's novel was a gateway...
 
Tags: vidal, gore vidal, fan rant, myra, myra breckinridge, vast world, world, fluff young-adult horror, mere simian whimper
 
 
 
 
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Lost in Pans Labyrinth

2007-01-13 20:41:00 by barbara in FilmArte
 
...Vidal father which the girl never does. Ofelias lack of obedience during the fantasy sequence is more related to fairy tale motifs than to the movie itself, as there seems no reason on a realistic level to think that she would try to steal anything from the Pale Man. Instead the Civil War plot emphasizes that obedience is nothing without...
 
Tags: spanish civil war, war, guillermo del toro, pans labyrinth, vidal, call vidal father, civil war plot, capitan vidal, evil military commander
 
 
 
 
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KBT Presents: PAN'S LABYRINTH

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2007-04-12 00:01:00 by Kurt Halfyard in Kurt's Film Blog
...Vidal is the epitome of European fascist warlord and is played by a perfectly cast Sergi López who perfected this sort of menace in Stephen Frears Dirty Pretty Things and the Hitchcockian thriller With A Friend Like Harry. Vidal hosts a sumptuous banquet as he discusses rationing of the locals food so any extra will not fall into the hands...
 
Tags: film, narnia film, personal favorite film, labyrinth, stylish genre film, toronto film festival, spanish language film, pans labyrinth exposes, pans labyrinth
 
 
 
 
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Charlton Heston 1924 -- 2008

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2008-04-06 19:36:16 by Carrie Rickey in Flickgrrl
...Vidal, a scriptwriter on Ben-Hur who solved the structural problems of the screenplay by suggesting a veiled homosexual attraction between Stephen Boyd's Messala and Heston's Judah Ben-Hur. According to Vidal, he took the new pages to director William Wyler who read them, and nodded, "OK, but don't tell Charlton." When this was reported in...
 
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Ewan McGregor Joins Amelia Earhart Biopic

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2008-05-27 00:00:00 by Elisabeth Rappe in Cinematical
...Vidal (yes, the father of Gore Vidal), who had a passionate affair with Earhart. According to Susan Butler's acclaimed 1997 biography, he was the love of her life. Vidal claims his father didn't marry her because she was too boyish -- something George Putnam (played by Richard Gere in the movie) didn't have a problem with. We'll see if the...
 
Tags: mcgregor, ewan mcgregor, amelia, land mcgregor, movie, play gene vidal, amelia role, simply walk, life
 
 
 
 
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Norman Mailer's Greatest Hits

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2007-11-10 08:26:00 by Jesse in Popcorn and Sticky Floors
...Vidal is one for the ages - Vidal's quote that "there has been from Henry Miller to Norman Mailer to Charles Manson a logical progression" enraged Mailer so much that they had it out on the Dick Cavett Show, excerpted here in this documentary on Gore Mailer's best-known film as a director was 1987's 100% fucked-up Tough Guys Don't Dance ,...
 
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Pan's Labyrinth

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2006-12-01 14:11:00 by H. A. Calles in Illustrated Movie Review Blog
...Vidal and little Ofelia, played by Ivana Baquero Image hosting for H. A. Calles drawing: www.flickr.com H. A. Calles recommended alternative review for this movie click here Edition software used for H. A. Calles drawing: Corel Photo, Corel Draw Género: Drama / Fantasía / Historia / Horror Escrita y Dirigida por: Guillermo del Toro Título...
 
Tags: film, film connoisseurs, unforgettable fantasy film, fantasy, fantasy-horror genre, horror, love fantasy, laberinto del fauno, story
 
 
 
 
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Digital TV On Hold in Chile

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2007-12-26 17:47:37 by Sam in Slice of SciFi
...Vidal, a government spokesperson said on Monday. The decision on digital television, which the government had committed to defining before December 31, that decision and its definition will be postponed President Bachelet has said the standard chosen will be the one that best fits the countrys needs and allows the best access to viewers of...
 
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The Best Man.

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2008-05-06 11:44:14 by Editor in The Latest from GreenCine Daily
...Vidal 's wrote the screenplay. "[I]t's hard to watch the film and not think about the recent election," he wrote, and lo, Vidal's "prescience" is being noted all over again by Evgenia Peretz in VF Daily Briefly, the film's depicts a standoff between two candidates at an unnamed political party's convention. Neither can round up enough votes...
 
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Ewan McGregor Scores Lead In Amelia

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2008-05-27 15:32:58 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
...Vidal (McGregor), father of author Gore Vidal. Ronald Bass penned the screenplay The story of Amelia Earhart is a fantastic tale of a heroic woman snapped from the world in a shroud of mystery. I think her life story is one that needs to be remembered and l am pleased that a modern biopic is being made. Ewan McGregor is always a welcome...
 
Tags: mcgregor, ewan mcgregor, amelia, story centers, story, swank, life story, publisher george putnam, author gore vidal