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McCormack, now a novelist and screenwriter living in Los Angeles, can greet people in 65 different languages, but knowledge of foreign languages is not necessary to the casual observer of the holiday...
...Novelist, essayist, polemicist, all-purpose gadfly and now lion in winter, Gore Vidal has just published a second volume of memoirs, Point to Point Navigation, in which he thinks back on his life in letters and politics. Vidal, 81, talked with TIME's Richard Lacayo about the marginalization of the novel, his love life, Johnny Carson, J.F.K.'s assassination and the last word in last words...
...your memoir you say that you're not a famous novelist--that no novelist is famous because novels are not discussed in public anymore. Has it got that...
There's no such thing anymore as a famous novelist. You can be a famous actor, a famous baseball player, a famous or an infamous politician. My point is not about me. My point is about the novel...
...amount of his screen-time screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it’s a rather upsetting situation, especially when Eiffel announces Crick’s “imminent” death. From there, the plot proceeds predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course...