Have to remember to keep checking out TruthDig. And read more from Gore Vidal - most of the stuff he says is very interesting - very different from conventional wisdom. He's a lot like Chomsky in that way. Wonder what they think of each other?
A clip from the TruthDig article:
Sheerly Avni: Let’s start with “Brokeback Mountain.”
Gore Vidal: I liked it, I’m a great fan of Ang Lee. He did the best Civil War movie ever made, called “The Devil Rides Outside.” And it was really, really good. Lee had an extraordinary feeling, for somebody from Taiwan, for the American Civil War. It was just fascinating. So I was eager to see the movie about the two sheepherders, actually is what they are, they’re not cowboys. You can see there’s not a cow in the movie, just a lot of sheep. You can see how the two sheepherders might get tired of the sheep and begin to look to each other, as a kind of variation on a theme. I liked it, I thought it was quite moving, obviously thematically it’s important to do a picture like that about two ordinary men, seized at a time in which all this is forbidden and so on.
It would have been nice, at the same time, if…it would have been better had they started with Kinsey, which was practically erased by the Academy, to which, alas, I belong. I thought that was a terrible error, because it was the best movie of last year, and informative and instructive: You learned a lot about the nature of human sexuality, that there isn’t just one good team and one bad team and one healthy team and one sick team. It’s not that at all.
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life’s way … and if you don’t, you’ve been sort of cheated. "
Interesting, at the very least...
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