European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Faly Magazine by Kathleen Hendrix los Angeles times according in Gore Vidal. American i has for cd ways of handling its critics. 1 one 15 to Black you ouf Allouc Lucr. Which they did Wilh Nairn Chomsky a linguistics Export and Vietnam War opponent he can l get publisher anywhere he s been made 0 non person or shy re Monize you which they raid with Jesse Jackson or they Naiad i you. Which they do Wilh me having said Hiil viral screws up his Fitch pitches his voice into a High nasal. Whine Andrj delivers his imitation of an Obr Tonus prof pc commending on she likes of Gore Vidal of he s vicious he s venomous he s outrageous " Outi,-igerjii5 j of outraged7 sometimes to score lobe both All Hough Moie Altai than nol. Ibo Ourado comes out As sarcasm. To vial never Vidal essayist novelist playwright sometime politician and lifelong critic lifts m Italy most of the Lime now Bui he returned to California recently for a Brief. Stay Ai his grand old Spanish Stylo House in Hie Hollywood Hills making Lofas out to a few talk shows Andrj speaking before a few groups on the state of to Union Tor starters. He finds the state of Itie Union close to that of a police state As is usual when to is in los Angeles he was a quasi on Johnny pm son s show but irus Lime around he was asked to bring his past porn or of Hrar proof of citizenship he Iri ought it was a joke if was not were to t Torci Caner to was fold. Iho Law would require him 1o bring a Green card or documents to show that his visa was in order it All had to do he was told with Iho Federal crackdown on hiring illegal. Immigrants so i said of. Yosi it s wait known that As soon As a mexican crosses the Fotio Grande he is immediately booked onto the Carson show. Thereby depriving an american entertainer of his showcase " but it was not the Carson show thai was bothering Vidal ii was the requirement that to was calling a violation of Iho first and fourth amendment and to acceptance of in. Americans he said now accept All Hal As the proper role of government and seem ready Lor Laws on abortion their sex lives and making you say prayers aloud " Aiho same Lime they see it As improper to go to a corporation and say clean tip a mess because Mihacs. Socialism and that s evil. How you get people to Vole against their interests and. To really think against their interests is very Clover it s die cd closes suing class Hal i have aver come across in history. H s been 200 years at it u s Superb Vida 63, referred to him cd at one. Point As an aging Patriot. And what to said about critics he said about pal Riols patriots in a patriarchal society Are considered dangerous and so Are made into non persons Parl of the purpose of his visit includes promoting his Newt fax to at Home random Housel a collection of essays Hal have appeared in periodicals from 1982 until this year. Vidal also was m los Angeros to be on hand when the shooting of a two hour. How you get people to vote against their interests is very Clever. If a Trio Cleverest ruling class that i have Ever teen in history.". Aging patriot1 feature film he wrote about Billy the kid begins in Tucson. Ariz hi3 main work in recent boats remains. The group at novels to Doris. Collectively the american chronicle. Al Hoogh to has nol written them sequentially they Amoun to a chronicle of America s. History Flurr Lincoln 1876. Empire and Washington. Do. comply swing Iarj. Volume Hal precedes washing Ion and covers 1917-1923 i m going to can it Hollywood and Hollywood is in it to said. Woodrow Wilson the first world War. The league of nations. Warren g. Harding and the. Trapol dome which j then intercut with the Rise of the silent movies the political history of this was nol All that. Inlo resting. Whereas wha i was interesting was Honywood this is the first world fad. In came right out of Here and in was the first Groat cultural fact hat touched every country on while vital is finishing Hollywood he Sard. Waller Clemons a former Newsweek critic is Compoli Najj Vidal s biography. He s been Ai it a couple of years now. He s got his work Cut out for him. Because i never did anything 1 wrote and i politically activated but these stones biographies Are usually horror i stories. Of course who knows i m not at the end Louch Wood but ii s always drugs. Divorce sex changes disasters and i be had nothing i 1ha1 sort in my life. He Comons gel s very interested in my Privato life and keeps saying. There does l seem Lobo any and 1 keep telling Hirn. What you Don l inc you Don t Seo it s As simple As that. I was always More Public than Pavalc to expects to next to political office again. Thai is consistent with his View of patriotism he said it s pointless partly i m Loo old partly there s nothing anyone can now do. This thing is going right Over the chit and there is Noah my you con do. I be Dona. Everything thai a Good citizen should do. In the course o ,"he. Said citing. 1 his runs Lor Mollico. And work against the Vietnam War with or. and the people s parly. " wednesday december 1j, 1983 the stars and stripes. Paga 17
