http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/ Anyone who enjoys Gore Vidal's ideas Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:15:24 GMT wptolemy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10507 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10507 Here is a tape of Kennedy mulling over the coup in South Vietnam. Fascinating stuff. And plus, it is sad to hear JFK, Jr's tiny voice. "President Kennedy Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:10:35 GMT wptolemy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10506 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10506 I know that when I was working with a S-OX company, the paper work related to the internal controls was harrowing. So many people doing change management that Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:39:20 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10505 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10505 ... And here's yet another example of the consequences: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/02/white-house-quietly-worki_n_340791.html With "friends" like Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:13:39 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10504 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10504 ... To put it briefly, we was robbed. Dennis Clark Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:30:07 GMT Alice Copeland Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10503 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10503 If I recall the episode correctly, the mother should stand trial for 'aiding and abetting' alongside Roman.  But I thank GV for opening my eyes to my Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:13:00 GMT Alice Copeland Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10502 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10502 I work with 2 highly intelligent Jews, who are rational on every ethical subject we discuss: EXCEPT for this one.  They up the ante on the bigoted Israelis I Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:39:42 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10501 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10501 I think Vidal's point is that there are a lot of myths about Hollywood icons, and that there are a lot of opportunists willing to do most anything to enter Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:11:42 GMT Damian Brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10500 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10500 How can anyone defend a man that gives a thirteen year old child drugs and then rapes and sodomises her? If she was so willing why did he need to drug her? She Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:56:55 GMT Harry B Kloman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10499 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10499 ... Most of Hollywood is standing up for Polanski - that is, many are supporting him, the rest are silent. Sounds like the girl needed Travis Bickle to protect Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:45:42 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10498 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10498 ... Hadn't see this yet when I posted the previous from reading the original interview itself, and I must have missed his comment about her! Ouch. I suppose Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:38:22 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10497 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10497 ... Oh, thanks, this made my morning! He as no edit button now at all. Is he the only one to stand up for Polanski? Don't follow though when he says he was in Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:57 GMT wptolemy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10496 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10496 Dennis, talk about not holding anything back! You might be interested in the latest controversy in which he is needlessly embroiled. Oy! Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:31:56 GMT Harry B Kloman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10495 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10495 A new interview in, of all places, The Atlantic, where he rarely appears: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200910u/gore-vidal Nothing new, of course, but still Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:52:58 GMT Frank Moliterno http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10494 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10494 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55jlS_w46no&feature=player_embedded# Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:38:29 GMT vaeringjar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10493 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Gore_Vidal/message/10493 ... I trust LaSalle almost always. It looked a bit plodding from the trailer, though it certainly has a number of talented people in it. There is a little