5/13/2023 0 Comments Empire vidal novel![]() ![]() In one scene, he sits down heavily at the top of the stairway where he, as a ten-year old kid, had discovered his distraught, alcoholic mother lying in her dressing gown on the morning after her wedding night to Hugh. You couldn’t breathe in his presence.” But for the film, Vidal projects an authentic weariness, fundamental to the man. James Merrill once remarked, “Gore sucked all the air out of any room he entered. The camera follows as he narrates his life, including a return to Merrywood, the mansion on the Potomac that had belonged to Hugh Auchincloss, the affluent stockbroker his mother Nina married immediately after divorcing Gene Vidal. ![]() I watched the 1995 BBC documentary on Vidal, largely the product of its then seventy-year old subject. He made himself so visible that one can’t help but indulge. Jay Parini’s biography of Gore Vidal, Empire of Self, is an entertaining narrative, but midway through the book I shifted over to YouTube to watch Vidal in action. ![]()
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