Word: gores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his problems, Mitchell seems fairly ebullient. He makes amiable appearances at fancy Washington restaurants, especially the Jockey Club, the Sea Catch and the Palm. He is often accompanied by Mrs. Mary Gore Dean, a wealthy widow whose family operates restaurants and a hotel in the capital. He is drinking much less than the fifth a day he consumed at the height of the Watergate crisis. Associates suggest two reasons for Mitchell's relatively good spirits: 1) Despite Nixon's earlier efforts to get Mitchell to take full blame for Watergate, he has never turned against his former...
...refuses to admit he is defeated even after Arthur slashes his arm off (blood spurts as if from a faucet); Arthur then chops his other arm off, and then each of his legs, before moving on. There's really nothing funny about it. The keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head (more blood) with his teeth, it's too disgusting and unfunny to laugh at much...
...York City announced plans to display the long-secret court records of Aaron Burr's 1836 divorce case, in which the 80-year-old ex-Vice President was accused of adultery, at least one part-time historian was unexcited. "It's all in my book," points out Gore Vidal, who pieced the story together accurately for his historical novel Burr, without aid of court records. "I have never seen them. I've just gone on other people's word." Of Burr's long-lived virility, Vidal added: "Burr was a small, trim little...
...proud Virginian, historian and retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, came to the defense of the founding fathers in an outspoken Charter Day address at Virginia's venerable College of William and Mary. He sharply assailed Fawn Brodie, author of Thomas Jefferson, An Intimate History, and Gore Vidal, who wrote the historical novel Burr, for pretending to sound scholarship...
...Arlington, Va., apartment last week, an apparently lonely man. Annabella Battistella, 38, alias Fanne Foxe, was in Connecticut meeting with Author Robin Moore (The Green Berets, The Happy Hooker), who may write an authorized biography of the Washington Tidal Basin Bombshell. "There is some pressure," said Moore, "as apparently Gore Vidal is writing an unauthorized biography," a statement denied by Vidal's publisher. In his preliminary research, Moore has been impressed by the devotion of Wilbur and Anna to each other. "She really does love him, and she wants to marry him." As for Mills...