Yards and yards of patriotic bunting stun the senses as you enter the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, where a revival of ''Gore Vidal's The Best Man'' opened on Sunday night. Television monitors displaying black-and-white footage hang from boxes that frame the stage, and the usher handing you your program wears a festive boater with red, white and blue...
EMINENT OUTLAWS The Gay Writers Who Changed America By Christopher Bram 371 pp. Twelve. $27.99. What makes a book a gay book, or a writer a gay writer? Walt Whitman, for all his sizzling erotic verses about men, insisted to the end that he was interested only in women. Gore Vidal, who has made no secret of his attraction to men, writes sparingly...
EMINENT OUTLAWS The Gay Writers Who Changed America By Christopher Bram 372 pages. Twelve. $27.99. When Joseph Papp, founder of the Public Theater, first read ''The Normal Heart,'' Larry Kramer's sprawling 1985 play about the early days of the AIDS crisis, he thought it was a mess. ''This is one of the worst things I've ever read,'' Papp said. But...
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (født 3. oktober 1925) er en amerikansk forfatter, dramatiker, essayist, manuskriptforfatter og politisk aktivist. Han hører til en af det tyvende århundredes mest prominente intellektuelle.