Word: ravello
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published in the unenlightened '40s and featuring an overtly homosexual love story, alienated the literary establishment and set him apart as a refugee in his own land. Later we follow him into the bright worlds of television and Hollywood, until he eventually takes refuge in the Old World of Ravello, in Italy, where he has lived for the past 30 years...
Vidal -- perversely brilliant novelist, acerbic gadfly and now movie actor -- lives in self-imposed partial exile in a massive villa in the postcard- picturesque town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi coast. All his surroundings are serene. Vidal, 67, is a tireless, disciplined author, and his house is in every detail of location and layout designed to enhance concentration...
...first time in nearly six months, he recently left Ravello. Paramount persuaded him to go to Hollywood for a press jamboree to promote Tim Robbins' shrewd, bumptious political film Bob Roberts. Vidal co-stars as an aging liberal Senator, and he does it with authority and panache. His reviews have been excellent, and the ham in him loves it. "I keep saying, 'John Houseman is dead. Maybe I'll get those nice parts...