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p. 562
:
“Being 40 has not”
: GV/Dupee, 11/nd/1965. C.

Chapter Fifteen

INTERVIEWS: Herman Gollob, 2/18/1999; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994; Barbara Epstein, 7/15/1995, 7/26/1995; Joanne Woodward, 2/8/1996; Paul Newman, 2/8/1996; Antonia Fraser, 1/26/1996; Owen Laster, 2/29/1996, 3/5/1996, 3/22/1996; William F. Buckley [by letter in response to questions], 10/23/1996; Louis Auchincloss, 10/21/1994.

ENDNOTES

pp. 564
–
65
:
“Rome in August”
: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 8/nd/1965; “wreathed in friendship … intelligent”: GV/Fred Dupee, 3/8/1965. C; “I found him positively”: GV/Nini Auchincloss, 3/3/1965; “I thought you said … dinner”: GV/Dupee, 3/14/1966. C.

pp. 565
–
66
:
“Villon music … performance”
: GV/Dupee, 7/26/1965. C; “died of a thrombosis”: GV/Gene Vidal, 7/24/1965. W.

p. 568
:
“a fine if jumbled”
:
TS
, 7; “Howard is fixing”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 5/nd/1966; “The new place”: GV/Vidal, 6/nd/1966. W; “We're in the new”: GV/Dupee, 6/3/1966. C.

p. 569
:
“Not since Tolstoi … do it for me”
: GV/Ray White, 9/1/1966. W; “I have never had … over the wall”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, nd/1966.

p. 572
:
“The fierceness”
: Barbara Epstein/GV, 10/5/1966. W; “The thought of”: GV/Gene Vidal, 6/nd/1966. W.

pp. 573
–
74
:
“were written over”
: GV/White, 8/11/1966. W; “Just when I”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 6/nd/1965.

pp. 574
–
75
:
“Clay is
not”
: GV/Auchincloss, 5/nd/1967; “My own impression”: GV/Auchincloss, 5/nd/1967.

p. 576
:
“I struggled”
: GV/Dupee, spring/nd/1967. C; “very good, indeed”: Epstein/GV, 4/nd/1967. W.

p. 577
:
“co-devising and … attractive”
: Kenneth Tynan/GV, 12/9/1966. W.

p. 580
:
“AM AT YOUR FEET”
: Joanne Woodward/GV, 6/4/1956. W; “is pretty enough”: Dupee/GV, 7/6/1967. W.

p. 582
:
“the only real diversion”
: GV/Dupee, 5/28/1967.

p. 583
:
“Greece was depressing”
: GV/Vidal, 5/nd/1967. W.

p. 584
:
“it is really very”
: GV/Dupee, 7/11/1967. C; “I think the book”: GV/Ned Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB; “I AM HONORED”: Christopher Isherwood/GV, 8/12/1967. W.

pp. 584
–
85
:
“In my opinion it's … ballet”
: Isherwood/GV, 8/21/1967. W; “then by slow degrees”: GV/Dupee, 7/11/1967. C; “Still a good deal”: GV/Vidal, 8/nd/1967. W.

pp. 585
–
86
:
“I have never in my life”
: GV/Dupee, 5/28/1967. C; “I'm now happily”: GV/Nina Auchincloss, 8/nd/1967.

pp. 586
–
87
:
“I am becoming restless”
: GV/Gene Vidal, 8/nd/1967. W; “a terrible place”: GV/Gene Vidal, 9/nd/1967. W.

pp. 587
–
88
:
“I felt novels were finished”
: GV/Gene Vidal, 9/nd/1967. W; “So it goes”: GV/Dupee, 9/16/1967. C; “Old Gore leading”: GV/Dupee, 9/10/1967. C.

p. 588
:
“from one millionaire”
: Bradford/GV, nd/1967. W.

p. 589
:
“I'm trying to make up”
: GV/Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB; “It may well be”: GV/Bradford, 7/15/1967. LB.

p. 593
:
“My entire life”
: GV/Jerry/Hazel Morrass, 3/26/1968. W; “to look muscle-bound”: GV/Gene Vidal, 4/nd/1968. W.

p. 595
:
“I assume you are”
: GV/Dupee, 5/2/1968. C.

p. 598
:
“Vidal was achieving much”
: John Kenneth Galbraith,
A Life in Our Times
, Boston: 1981, 504.

p. 599
:
“Fuck you, you Jew”
: James T. Paterson,
Grand Expectations, The United States, 1945–1974
. The Oxford History of the United States. NY, 1996, 696.

p. 601
:
“PLEASE INFORM GORE VIDAL”
: Buckley/GV, 2/nd/1962, “On Experiencing Gore Vidal,”
Smiling Through the Apocalypse, Esquire's History of the Sixties
, NY: 1987, 541.

Chapter Sixteen

INTERVIEWS: William F. Buckley [by letter in response to questions], 10/23/1996; Ed Weisl, 10/10/1996; Richard Poirier, 7/1/1996; Lois Wallace, 9/4/1996; Barbara Dupee, 1/26/1995, 2/2/1995; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Alain/Madeline Bernheim, 4/2/1996; Sally Vidal, 3/28/1996; Martin Manulis, 4/1/1996; Norman Mailer, 3/15/1996, 3/16/1996, 3/17/1996; Dick Cavett, 11/13/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1944.

UNPUBLISHED DOCUMENTS: Buckley/Vidal files at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett attorneys: depositions, suits, appeals, claims, counterclaims, rulings, letters, news releases, clippings; Harold Hayes Collection, University of Wake Forest: Hayes ms. account of events and letters between Hayes and Buckley and Hayes and Vidal.

ENDNOTES

p. 604
:
“
Mon vieux
, he began … my undertaking it … over Buckley's”
: Harold Hayes, unpub. ms., nd, WF, 1.

p. 605
:
“I told Buckley … what he writes”
: Hayes, 17. WF; “He's pretty rough”: Hayes/GV, 2/26/1969. W; “How does the word ‘injunction' … we went on”: Hayes, 20. WF.

p. 607
:
“the man who in his essays”
: Buckley, “On Experiencing Gore Vidal,” 571.

p. 609
:
“You understand, I hope”
: Buckley/Hayes, 4/28/1969. WF; “Dear Harold, You ask”: Buckley/Hayes, 4/28/1969. WF.

p. 611
:
“Speaking as one publisher”
: Hugh Hefner/Buckley, 5/15/1969. WF.

pp. 611
–
12
:
“I am sure there is”
: Buckley/Hayes, 6/12/1969. WF; “Your
Esquire
piece”: John Kenneth Galbraith/Buckley, 8/12/1969. WF.

p. 615
:
“We have won”
: Ed Weisl/GV, 7/11/1972. W.

p. 616
:
“We published that article”
: Hayes,
Esquire
, 11/1972.

p. 617
:
“which is why I now”
: Buckley, “On Experiencing Gore Vidal,” 571.

p. 618
:
“
Newsweek
quite incorrectly”
: Arnold Gingrich/Osborn Elliot, 10/3/1972. W.

p. 619
:
“I do not propose … defamatory”
: Buckley/Hayes, 10/25/1972. WF.

pp. 620
–
21
:
“a brilliant
tour de force”
: Fred Dupee/GV, nd/1967; “For the last few weeks”: GV/Andy Dupee, 1/20/1979.

p. 622
:
“shocked and furious”
: Howard Austen/GV, 10/9/1969. W.

p. 623
“But what else do you do”
:
M
, 300.

pp. 624
–
25
:
“I confess that”
: GV/Dear Minister [Charles Haughey], 12/19/1969. W; “fascinating trip”: GV/Tom Driberg, 1/nd/1970. CC.

p. 627
:
“puzzled over the fact”
: Gene Vidal/GV, fall/nd/1968. W.

p. 630
:
“I'm glad it ended”
: GV/Katharine Vidal, 2/24/1969. WY; “not only fortunate but”: Katharine Vidal/GV, 2/nd/1969. W.

pp. 630
–
32
:
“Dearest Gore—You have been”
: Lurene [Vidal] Jones/GV, 3/24/1969. W; “the solemn, pompous … entirely gone”:
US
, 1093. “for old times' sake … the same”:
TS
43.

p. 633
:
“First of all …
grand seigneur”
: Tennessee Williams/GV, nd/1970. W.

p. 633
:
“Tenn. was in town”
: GV/Paul Bowles, 7/15/1970. D; “No actress has ever”:
M
, 155–56.

p. 635
:
“Death, summer, youth … Jimmie”
:
TS
, 8–9; “Jimmie Trimble arrived”:
M
, 35.

p. 635
:
“Recently I dreamed”
:
TS
, 219.

p. 637
:
“hard look … caricature”
:
US
, 1149–50.

p. 644
:
“So this Sunday”
: GV/Elaine Dundy, 12/10/1970.

p. 645
:
“in a sense you contradict”
: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 1/nd/1971.

p. 645
:
“The sun has set behind”
:
TS
, 211.

p. 646
:
“Whether you do or don't”
: Roger Stevens, 11/20/1970. W.

Chapter Seventeen

INTERVIEWS: Jason Epstein, 4/25/1995, 3/26/1997; Michael Hecht, 6/11/1997; Howard Austen, 1/20/1996, 7/9/1996, 7/11/1996, 7/12/1996, 7/24/1996; Claire Bloom, 2/23/1996; Ed Sherin, 9/19/1996; Donald Stewart, 11/24/1997; Judith Calvino, 11/25/1997; Ned Rorem, 12/3/1996; George Armstrong, 9/5/1994; John Saumurez Smith, 1/22/1996; John Bowen, 1/22/1996; David Cook, 1/22/1996; Antonia Fraser, 1/26/1996; John Galliher, 4/29/1996; Bob Dolci, 4/3/1996; Jay Allen, 4/2/1996; Nina Auchincloss, 11/2/1994; Tommy Auchincloss, 6/8/1995.

ENDNOTES

p. 653
:
“What about our new”
: Ned Bradford/GV, 2/27/1969. W; “Is there a chance that”: Jason Epstein/Bradford, 3/24/1969. LB; “On the other hand we very much”: Epstein/Bradford, 5/7/1969. LB; “I must say that”: Epstein/GV, 5/20/1969. W.

p. 654
:
If you don't think”
: GV/Bradford, 5/nd/1970. LB; “damned good essay”: Roger Straus/GV, 6/15/1971. W; “My dear Gore, naturally”: Bradford/GV, 9/20/1971. W.

pp. 654
–
55
:
“I nearly dedicated”
: GV/Bradford, 8/nd/1973. LB; “Clearly you're getting”: Bradford/GV, 11/30/1973. W.

p. 657
:
“Here it is”
: GV/Epstein, 10/14/1971. W.

pp. 661
–
62
:
“Sorry you didn't see”
: GV/Bradford, 3/nd/1972. LB; “the first night was one”: Claire Bloom/GV, 5/15/1972. W.

pp. 662
–
63
:
“My blood pressure nearly”
: GV/Bloom, 5/23/1972; “Skin cancers fall”: GV/Bloom, 3/21/1975.

p. 664
:
“I think you know how much”
: Bloom/GV, 3/nd/1974. W.

p. 664
:
“Recently I spent”
:
TS
, 90–91; “half an hour”: GV/Epstein, 6/nd/1972. W.

p. 665
:
“waddled from great meal”
: GV/Elizabeth Hardwick, summer/nd/1974. T; “70,000 words written”: GV/Epstein, 6/nd/1972. W.

pp. 666
–
67
:
“What do you think of the title”
: GV/Epstein, 6/nd/1972. W; “I quit the People's Party”: GV/John Mitzel, 2/5/1974.

pp. 667
–
68
:
“I sounded drunk”
: GV/Mitzel, nd/1974; “I never do see much”: GV/Richard Poirier, 2/nd/1976; “I was only in town”: GV/Louis Auchincloss, 12/nd/1974; “I'm sometimes in Ireland”: GV/Tom Driberg, 12/nd/1972. CC.

pp. 668
–
69
:
“The house is perfect”
: GV/Nini Auchincloss, 1/nd/1973; “Ireland has sort of fizzled”: Howard Austen/Bradford, 5/22/1973. LB; “We BOUGHT the right”: GV/Hardwick, spring/nd/1974. T.

p. 670
:
“I feel dreadful about”
: Princess Margaret/GV, 12/2/1972. W; “Bad times”: GV/Driberg, 12/nd/1972. CC.

p. 670
:
“Gorino, why do you live?”
: “Epilogue by Gore Vidal” from
Roloff Beny in Italy
, NY: 1974, 408.

p. 671
:
“Princess Margaret is in”
: GV/Judith Halfpenny, 7/nd/1978.

p. 672
:
“Gore Vidal on the phone”
: Ned Rorem,
The Later Diaries of Ned Rorem, 1961–1972
. San Francisco: 1983, 333–36, 341.

p. 675
:
“Thank you for everything”
: Bloom/GV, 3/nd/1974. W.

p. 676
:
“I could not exorcise myself”
: GV/Poirier, 9/nd/1974; “I couldn't figure out”: Stanton, 110–11.

p. 681
:
“Most sad about Sofield”
: GV/Auchincloss, 12/nd/1974: “He is in a tomb”: Penny Crocker/GV, 2/18/1974. W.

p. 681
:
“Maybe you would like”
: John Armstrong/GV, 4/12/1973. W.

pp. 682
–
83
:
“Can it be that”
: GV/Driberg, 5/28/1975. CC; “you can now stay”: GV/Driberg, 7/nd/1976. CC.

p. 685
:
“To Gore Vidal at Fifty”
/Clive James, unpublished ms. W.

p. 685
:
“Will you be kind enough”
: William Meredith/GV, 12/31/1975. W; “THE INSTITUTE DOES ITSELF”: GV/Meredith, 1/16/1976. W.

p. 686
:
“I note now”
: GV/Poirier, 2/nd/1976; “I am sinking into”: GV/Poirier, 5/nd/1974; “holed up at Ravello”: GV/Driberg, 1/28/1975. CC.

p. 686
:
the “Book of the Month”
: GV/Graham Watson, I/nd/1975. W.

p. 690
:
“Dearest, darling Gore”
: Norman Lear/GV, 10/26/1976. W.

p. 691
:
“I thought that Tinto and I”
: GV/Franco Rossellini, 6/7/1976. W; “The film is a hardcore”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1976.

p. 692
:
“you have an evening in Hollywood”
: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1978.

pp. 692
–
93
:
“
Kalki
can and should”
: Epstein/GV, 2/15/1977. W; “Those who have read”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1975; “
Kalki
being re-done”: GV/Nigel Hollis, nd/1977. W; “powerful and upsetting”: Epstein/GV, 2/12/1977. W; “because of my friend”: GV/Halfpenny, 12/nd/1978.