Sheerly Avni: Gore Vidal on The Academy Awards, Sexuality and Politics

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Gore Vidal on The Academy Awards, Sexuality and Politics

Posted on Mar 3, 2006

By Sheerly Avni

In a Truthdig interview with Sheerly Avni, Gore Vidal weighs in on this year’s Academy Awards competition, Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain,” and Truman Capote’s Proust complex.

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