Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Methinks he correcteth too much

From The New York Times' obituary of writer Gore Vidal:

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: August 1, 2012
An earlier version misstated the term Mr. Vidal called William F. Buckley Jr. in a television appearance during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. It was crypto-Nazi, not crypto-fascist. It also described incorrectly Mr. Vidal’s connection with former Vice President Al Gore. Although Mr. Vidal frequent referred jokingly to Mr. Gore as his cousin, they were not related. And Mr. Vidal’s relationship with his longtime live-in companion, Howard Austen, was also described incorrectly. According to Mr. Vidal’s memoir “Palimpsest,” they had sex the night they met, but did not sleep together after they began living together. It was not true that they never had sex.

Vidal used to kill at cocktail parties doing his imitation of former Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter.

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