Gore Vidal

If Americans think of Democratic candidate George McGovern at all, it's as the man who suffered one of the worst electoral defeats of all time, losing every state but Massachusetts in his 1972 presidential contest with incumbent Republican Richard M....

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In the case of David Leaf and John Scheinfeld's documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon," the defendant presents evidence for both sides. On the one hand, there's Lennon as a powerful agent for social change, the man who wrote the unofficial anthem of the...

Could it be the heat and humidity? Or the smoke from wildfires out West and in Canada? Or could it simply be the anxiety of having to wait until September for a new season of "The Sopranos"? Whatever, there must be some explanation for the rash of truly...

Friday December 18, 1998      Like Jonathan Demme's "Handle With Care" (a.k.a. "Citizens Band") or even the old cult fave "Vanishing Point," J.S. Cardone's "Outside Ozona" is that customized species of road movie in which the characters are spokes and...

2½ stars (out of 4) Helen Gurley Brown uses semen as a face cream. Wes Craven started his career in smut. Dick Cavett wants to watch a porn film right now. These and other salacious tidbits are yours courtesy of Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato's...

It was a balmy night at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Hundreds of Angelenos were gathered on the roof deck of LACMA West after a debate about the changing role of art museums. Comedian Steve Martin was there, too: no arrow through his head, no...

By turns funny and sobering, sweeping and intimate, the consistently entertaining "Inside Deep Throat" plays like a giddy prance through the minefield of the last three decades of American sex and politics. It's a timeless story, really. Bawdy, can-do...

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Friday January 31, 1997      In a cozy, covert U.S. government research facility, bearded refuseniks drink tea and contemplate their screen-savers. Suddenly a gunman enters and systematically slaughters the staff--all except one, who throws the...