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« on: July 31, 2012, 11:39:07 PM »

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« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2012, 11:43:24 PM »

Hair styling will never be the same. Wink
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« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2012, 11:48:19 PM »

RIP.
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2012, 12:46:35 AM »


I recall posting that he had died when the hairdresser did, was that on Facebook or on here as well?
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« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2012, 12:58:01 AM »

My most vivid memory of him is when he appeared on the BBC's 2008 US election night coverage and had an 'interesting' discussion with David Dimbleby.

RIP.
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« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2012, 03:38:02 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8&feature=related

Huge FF, RIP.
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« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2012, 08:18:52 AM »

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« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2012, 09:55:35 AM »
« Edited: August 01, 2012, 10:30:42 AM by ChairmanSanchez »

Wow...did not expect this...Vidal always had a way of pissing me off. I would never call him a HP, but I can't say I liked him a whole lot. I always liked Truman Capote, his rival, a whole lot more. I do appreciate Vidals fight for the truth regarding Oklahoma City.
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« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2012, 10:10:22 AM »

RIP Sad
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« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2012, 10:37:22 AM »

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« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2012, 10:47:12 AM »

Creation is a great book, ditto Julian.  I always enjoyed Live From Golgotha.

Never cared too much for his US books.
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« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2012, 11:00:22 AM »

Interesting character. I quite enjoyed his contretemps with Bill Buckley way back in 1968 at the GOP convention, when the word Nazi was slung around between them as commentators for I think ABC News, and they thereafter had to be physically separated. I agree with Mikado about Julian. I very much enjoyed that book. I know that opebo would like it with its anti-Christian theme!  Tongue
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« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2012, 02:05:39 PM »

Irreplaceable.
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CLARENCE 2015!
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« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2012, 02:08:29 PM »

I'll paraphrase the obituary he left Buckley....

RIP Gore Vidal- in Hell
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« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2012, 02:40:58 PM »

From a Grauniad article about his death:

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« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2012, 01:00:40 AM »

I'll paraphrase the obituary he left Buckley....

RIP Gore Vidal- in Hell
You should of heard what he said about Truman Capote....Vidal was a world class asshole, but at least he acknowledged it.
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« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2012, 06:46:31 AM »

RIP. We won't see his like again.
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« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2012, 07:36:00 AM »


I've made my posthumous contribution to the Vidal Estate...
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