Gore Vidal (144 page)

p. 419
:
“quite a bitch”
:
Isherwood Diaries
, 721; “I dread my return”: GV/Ned Bradford, 6/nd/1957. LB.

p. 420
:
“probably the best T.V.”
: Nicholas Wreden/GV, 5/nd/1955. W; “I should have”: GV/James Oliver Brown, 2/20/1957. W.

p. 421
:
“I would not get”
: GV/Brown, 2/10/1957. W; “The Edgar Box thing”: GV/Brown, 2/20/1957. W; “never been able”: GV/Brown, 2/10/1957. W.

p. 424
:
“I have told Gore”
: Nina Gore/Leonard Strauss, 10/15/1957. W.

p. 424
:
“Gore needs to learn”
: Nina Gore/Strauss, 10/15/1957. W.

p. 428
:
“winter wonderland”
:
M
, 319.

p. 431
:
“I do agree”
: GV/Alec Guinness, 1/7/1958. W; “As I am interested”: George Axelrod/GV, 11/29/1957. W.

p. 432
:
“trying like hell”
: Nina Gore/GV, 12/nd/1957. W.

p. 440
:
“monstrous to give”
: Sam Zimbalist/GV, 7/3/1956. W.

p. 441
:
“As we drove together”
:
US
, 1175–77; “Roman fever”: GV/Anaïs Nin, summer/nd/1958.

p. 442
:
“When I was finished”
:
US
, 1175–77.

p. 443
:
“I am doing a fast”
: GV/Paul Bowles, 5/nd/1958. D.

p. 444
:
“Luckily, I was on the set”
:
US
, 69; “This is not a going-away”: Zimbalist/GV, 5/24/1958. W.

pp. 444
–
45
:
“The horses began”
: Morgan Hudgens/GV, 5/31/1958. W; “our first big day”: Zimbalist/GV, 6/6/1958. W; “The new opening”: Zimbalist/GV, 7/24/1958. W; “I rewrote the script”: GV/Ann R. Stein, 3/18/1959. W.

p. 446
:
“I was more upset”
: GV/Christopher Isherwood, 11/nd/1958; “My career as a dramatist”: GV/Isherwood, 11/nd/1958; “I should love a British”: GV/Tom Driberg, spring/nd/1958. CC.

p. 447
:
“No more movies”
: GV/Bowles, 5/nd/1958. D; “I still have occasional”: GV/Nin, summer/nd/1958. UC; “No one will believe”: GV/Nin, 6/nd/1958. UC.

pp. 449
–
50
:
“Look at that”
:
M
, 336, Stanton, 279,
US
, 443–44; “to get a director”:
Isherwood Diaries, 777
.

p. 450
–
51
:
“Gore regards me”
:
Isherwood Diaries
, 777; “What news of Ken”: GV/Driberg, spring/nd/1958. CC; “a good deal of the Tynans”: GV/Driberg, nd/1958. CC; “I gave a party”: GV/Driberg, 12/nd/1958. CC.

pp. 452
–
53
:
“I can't say … something else”
: F. W. Dupee/GV, 2/17/1958. W.

Chapter Thirteen

INTERVIEWS: Patsy Walsh, 6/4/1995; William Walsh, 6/4/1995; Lyn Austin, 5/1/1998; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Elaine Dundy, 3/30/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Janet Caro, 5/2/1995; Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; David Samples, 4/25/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Roy Thompson, 11/28/1995, 1/8/1996, 3/26/1996; George Plimpton, 2/9/1996; Arthur Schlesinger, 10/31/1996.

ENDNOTES

p. 464
:
“It is now your”
: Louis Auchincloss/GV, nd/1962. W.

p. 464
:
“DEAR GORE”
: John F. Kennedy/Gore Vidal, 9/29/1956. W.

p. 469
:
“I loved the way Dad”
: Nina Gore/GV, nd/1960 W.

p. 469
:
“On the morning when”
: GV/unpub. ms nd. W.

p. 471
:
“Is Gore writing”
:
M
, 337.

p. 471
:
“in a campaign”
:
M
, 337; “I have always felt”: GV/Ray White, 9/1/1996. W.

p. 473
:
“Never in my lifetime”
: Lucien Price/GV, 5/17/1960. W.

p. 474
:
“The morning after”
: GV, “On Campaigning,” unpub. essay, 1960. W.

p. 475
:
“Sell yourself”
: Ruth Davis/GV, 10/16/1960. W.

p. 478
:
“My husband always said … interested girl”
: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “from something you get”: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “Tell your friend”:
M
, 343.

p. 479
:
“into that vast … everything”
: GV, “On Campaigning.” W; “as a reigning”: GV, “On Campaigning.” 1960. W; “easily the best”: William Gruver/GV, 7/16/1960. W.

p. 480
:
“the play will be … Strachey”
: Arthur Schlesinger/GV, 3/16/1960. W.

p. 480
:
“Is this …
all”
:
TS
, 73; “would tell Jack”:
M
, 346; “last appeal … euphoric”:
TS
, 73–74. “This is the ship”:
M
, 346.

p. 481
:
“Some days I do … heads”
: GV/Christopher Isherwood, 9/nd/1960; “Jack, Jackie are doing”: GV/Elaine Dundy, fall/nd/1960.

p. 482
:
“Needless to say … formidable”
: GV/John Kennedy, 6/12/1960. W.

pp. 486
–
87
:
“If you had not won … Taylor”
: GV/John Kennedy, 11/14/1960. W.

pp. 488
–
89
:
“Call and come”
: Virgil Thomson/GV, 4/1/1960. W; “But if I do it”: GV/John Bowen, 10/nd/1960.

p. 489
:
“All my life”
: GV/Dundy, fall/nd/1960; “I fret about prose”: GV/Isherwood, nd/1960.

pp. 493
–
94
:
“The boy taking … twice a week”
:
M
, 375, 380.

pp. 495
–
96
:
“Yes, it would be better”
:
M
, 369; “Just talk to Eisenhower”:
M
, 361; “this was decadence”:
M
, 366.

p. 499
:
“Don't ever do”
:
M
, 394.

p. 499
:
“the mood … was different”
: Arthur Schlesinger, diary, quoted in Anthony Haden-Guest, “The Vidal Capote Papers: A Tempest in Camelot,”
New York
, 6/11/1979, 55; “and some lady … racket”: John Kenneth Galbraith,
Ambassador's Journal, A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years
, Boston: 1969, 221–22.

p. 500
:
“a great deal of … well”
: Galbraith, 222; “we both behaved”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, nd/1965.

p. 501
:
“the fight was hopeless”
: Roger Stevens/GV, 3/17/1962. W.

p. 504
:
“You do make me”
: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

p. 505
:
“I have just come back”
: GV/Ambassador Matsas, 7/18/1962. W.

p. 505
:
“there are no facts”
: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

p. 506
:
“Takes lots of pills”
: GV/Dundy, 3/nd/1962.

p. 507
:
“Week in Capri”
: GV/Dundy, 3/nd/1962; “I am here for … nicely written”: GV/Isherwood, 5/nd/1962.

pp. 508
–
9
:
“Take, say ten … in the world”
: Jason Epstein/GV, 6/2/1961. W; “like most satirists”: GV/Jason Epstein, 6/nd/1961. C.

p. 510
:
“Now, of course”
:
GV/New York Times Book Review
, 8/1962; “so bored—but then”: GV/Alice Dows, 8/8/1962.

p. 510
:
“stood alongside”
:
US
, 749.

p. 512
:
“HEAR YOU'RE LEAVING”
: Nina Gore/GV, 1/2/1963. W.

Chapter Fourteen

INTERVIEWS: Theresa Baxter, 3/29/1997; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Sam Lurie, 4/1/1996; Stan Kaminsky, 4/1/1996; Mickey Knox, 3/30/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1994; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Larry Turman, 3/6/1998; Jason Epstein, 3/6/1997; Barbara Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/7/1995, 3/7/1995; Herman Gollob, 2/18/1999; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Eleanor Rovere, 5/30/1995; Alain/Marjorie Bernheim, 4/2/1996; Milton Gendel, 11/25/1997.

ENDNOTES

p. 515
:
“a duodenal ulcer”
: GV/Alice Dows, 2/nd/1963. W; “The vulture has”: GV/Fred Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C; “I hope your liver”: Dupee/GV, 3/6/1963. W; “Blanche nearly rode”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C.

p. 516
:
“Energy is”
: William Blake,
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell;
“I can not express”: Nina Kay Gore/GV, 11/27/1962. W; “Things were rather”: Thomas Gore/GV, 5/27/1963. W.

p. 517
:
“I know that you”
: Roy Thompson/GV, 5/14/1963. W; “It is a blessing”: Thomas Gore/GV, 5/27/1963. W; “There's room for you”:
M
, 73.

pp. 519
–
20
:
“Sorry to hear”
: Harold Hayes/GV, 2/18/1963. WF; “conceivably to the highest”: Hayes/GV, 3/12/1963. W; “Did you read the piece”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 3/nd/1963.

p. 520
:
“which has stirred up”
: Auchincloss/GV, 3/12/1963. W; “a courier from”: GV/Hayes, 3/nd/1963. WF; “came to town”: GV/Richard Rovere, nd/1963. W; “The London papers”: GV/Hayes. 3/nd/1963. W.

pp. 523
–
24
:
“What did you do”
: GV/Dupee, 3/7/1963. C; “I like [your essay”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. W; “cannot be taken seriously”:
US
, 342.

p. 525
:
“have an ulcer”
: GV/John Bowen, 1/nd/1963; “In a way I'm”: GV/Dupee, 3/7/1963. C.

p. 526
:
“He has gained weight”
: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1963; “in that euphoric state”: GV/Dupee, 3/nd/1963. C.

pp. 527
–
28
:
“splendid company”
: GV/Tom Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC; “a hacking cough … hell”: GV/Dupee, 4/5/1963. C; “We will arrive”: Sam Lurie/GV, 4/10/1963. W; “Dear Maureen O'Hara”: GV/Lurie, 4/nd/1963.

p. 531
:
“This was the hottest”
:
US
, 1215.

p. 532
:
“is splendid just now”
: GV/Dupee, 4/16/1963, C; “All in all a quiet”: GV/Dows, 4/24/1963. W; “Please come”: Elaine Dundy/GV, 5/nd/1963. W; “pleasantly bloating”: GV/Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC.

p. 533
:
“I begin to think”
: GV/Dows, 6/20/1963. W.

p. 534
:
“He is quite”
: GV/Dows, 7/18/1963. W; “I listen to him”: GV/Ned Bradford, 7/nd/1963. LB; “miss the country”: GV/Dows, 6/20/1963. W.

p. 535
:
“Even at twelve … television”
:
SH
, 83–85.

pp. 536
–
37
:
“I do like”
:
Isherwood Diaries
, 884; “playing the role”:
Isherwood Diaries
, 884.

pp. 537
–
38
:
“If your party … awfully wrong”
: GV/Driberg, 7/1/1963. CC.

p. 538
:
“SHOOTING COMPLETED”
: Larry Turman and Stuart Millar/GV, 11/11/1963. W.

p. 540
:
“feeling slightly bored”
: Howard Austen/GV, 9/22/1963. W; “I can't tell much”: GV/Bradford, 7/nd/1963. LB; “JULIAN READ BY”: Bradford/GV, 10/nd/1963. W.

p. 541
:
“I flew back”
: GV/Auchincloss, 1/10/1964.

p. 542
:
“I have finished”
: GV/Auchincloss, 1/10/1964.

pp. 542
–
43
:
“the book is a
delight”
: Auchincloss/GV, nd/1964. W; “B-of-M Club”: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1964; “I'm so happy”: GV/Dwye Evans, 1/nd/1964. Heinemann archives.

p. 545
:
“I have been possessed”
: GV/Auchincloss, 3/nd/1964. W; “So this is the year”: GV/Richard Poirier, 3/nd/1964.

p. 546
:
“A rather lousy”
: GV/Poirier, 3/nd/1964; “and in the dark days”: GV/Charles W. Mixer, 7/22/1964. W; “able to read”: GV/Caldwell Titcomb, 4/13/1964. W.

p. 547
:
“Edgewater is not”
: GV/Dupee, 1/18/1964. C.

p. 548
:
“Who present that”
:
US
, 980.

p. 552
:
“Are you, on top of”
: Buckley/GV, 4/16/1962. W.

p. 553
–
54
:
“was utterly unrelated”
: Buckley deposition, 3/27/1972, 142; “Evidently the entire”: Buckley/Jayne Meadows, 3/30/1959. W.

p. 554
:
“Your reporter wrote”
: Buckley/Orvil E. Dreyfoos,
New York Times
, 10/23/1961.

p. 555
:
“For the record”
: GV/Terry, 7/nd/1964.

p. 558
:
“If you can come up with”
: GV/Jerome Kilty, 1/31/1965. W.

p. 559
:
“I cannot tell yet”
: GV/Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965.

p. 559
: “It doesn't seem”:
GV/Gene Vidal, 4/nd/1965. W; “charming but gray”
: GV/Vidal, 4/nd/1965. W.

pp. 560
–
61
:
“He is now an only”
: GV/Rovere, 2/15/1965. W; “I am so completely”: GV/Dupee, 9/1/1965. C; “It was Guermantes”: GV/Nini Auchincloss, 3/3/1965; “I don't know whether”: GV/Dupee, 3/8/1965. C.

p. 561
:
“Paris was too much”
: GV/Dupee, 6/10/1965. C; “Princess Margaret arrives”: GV/Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965; “turned out to be”: GV/Auchincloss, 9/nd/1965.

p. 562
:
“a vast undertaking”
: GV/Rovere, 2/16/1965. W; “is a cheery man”: GV/Dupee, 2/12/1965. C; “Boats … are hideously”: GV/Dupee, 2/12/1965. C; “4 films in a year”: GV/Dupee, 11/nd/1965. C.