Gore Vidal

Tony Awards: 'Death of a Salesman' wins for revival of a play

2012-06-10 19:05:00

The recent production of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew Garfield, won the Tony Award for revival of a play. Scott Rudin, one of the producer's of the revival, accepted the award and was joined on stage by...

Courtney Love attempts her first gallery show

2012-04-30 09:40:00

Celebrity art shows usually don't merit much serious aesthetic consideration. But when the celebrity in question is Courtney Love -- the volatile Hole frontwoman and sometimes actress -- attention should be paid, if only to see how her outrageous...

Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist

2011-12-15 21:57:00

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...

Monster Mash: Louvre, Leonardo; Meryl Streep, women's museum

2011-12-29 16:32:59

Hot Property: Gore Vidal lists Sunset Strip-area home for $3,495,000

2011-01-25 17:37:00

Prolific author and playwright Gore Vidal has listed his Sunset Strip-area home for $3,495,000. The 1929 Mediterranean villa of 4,782 square feet has a living room with a walk-in fireplace, a meditation room, a music room and an office. The main house...

Book review: 'My Father at 100: A Memoir' by Ron Reagan

2011-01-16 00:00:00

My Father at 100 A Memoir Ron Reagan Viking: 228 pp., $25.95 "Hinckley had loaded his pistol with a type of exploding bullet charmingly marketed as a Devastator," writes Ron Reagan, describing John Hinckley Jr.'s 1981 attempt to assassinate his...

Monster Mash: 'Rent'-heads rejoice; music man Anthony Hopkins; Michael Maltzan's big moment

2011-02-25 16:32:58

Remembering Owsley "Bear" Stanley (1935-2011) [Audio]

2011-03-15 16:34:39

Book review: 'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham' by Selina Hastings

2010-05-30 00:00:00

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham A Biography Selina Hastings Random House: 640 pp., $35 The story of William Somerset Maugham, the stammering young boy who became a doctor and then the world's most famous writer since Dickens, has often been told,...

'Tarzan of the Apes,' reconsidered on his 97th birthday

2009-10-20 16:33:07

Gore Vidal on Roman Polanski's sexcapades: The media has it all wrong

2009-10-29 16:32:24

National Book Awards include McCann, Eggers, Vidal

2009-11-18 21:33:33

"Gore Vidal's The Best Man" star James Earl Jones is nominated for actor in a leading role in a play.

2012-06-10 00:00:00

Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" (winner) Gore Vidal's "The Best Man" "Master Class" "Wit"

2012-05-01 00:00:00

James Corden, "One Man, Two Guvnors" (winner) Philip Seymour Hoffman, "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman" James Earl Jones, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" Frank Langella, "Man and Boy" John Lithgow, "The Columnist"

2012-05-01 00:00:00