Gore Vidal dies at 86

[mteal]

The great writer Gore Vidal has died at 86:

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obi ... 56631952/1

He was a frequent lunch partner of Welles, and his wonderful essay, REMEMBERING ORSON WELLES, can be read here:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archive ... tion=false

[RayKelly]

What's better than a lost interview with Gore Vidal?
A banned Vidal interview conducted by none other than Joseph McBride!
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/77/77gore-vidal-interview-banned-by-variety.php

[mteal]

Thanks Ray. Good to see the McBride/Vidal piece finally see the light of day. Makes me want to dig out my old VHS copy of BOB ROBERTS. Haven't seen it in awhile.

He's written a feature about Theodora and Justinian for Martin Scorsese at Universal. Sting is interested in a film version of Kalki, Empire is in the works as a TNT miniseries and Vidal continues hoping ABC will activate Burr, which almost came together as a mini with Albert Finney not long ago. [None of these projects has come to fruition — yet.]

I would have loved to have seen any of those. I don't think any of them ever came to fruition, although they are doing a remake of CALIGULA now. Hopefully it's better then the first one, which I didn't care for.