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Hottest ticket
Weekend: Talk about weird topicality—events in Gore Vidal's "Weekend" revolve around a pragmatic, populist Republican senator whose presidential ambitions appear dashed when his rebellious son shows up with a young African-American woman he says... -
Vidal's 'Weekend' still has plenty of political bite
Chicago Tribune criticAlong with William F. Buckley Jr., Gore Vidal mastered the delicate role of the populist intellectual. Attend his pronouncements—on stage, page or TV—and you're guaranteed a certain sophistication of thought. But you also know you wouldn't...Tags: Jon Stewart, William F. Buckley
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This week
FRIDAY Love in the Middle Ages: A new musical about the dating game for those over 40 is by Village Players Theatre in Oak Park, written by Scott Urban, composed by Robert Solone and directed by Jason Fleece. Through Sept. 21 at Village Players... -
Where's Weldon?
The poet Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Neb., in 1914, though what's best known about him is that on July 18, 1955, his car was found abandoned with the keys still in the ignition in a parking lot on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge....Tags: Dashiell Hammett, Tom Wolfe, Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Thomas Mann
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Stage guide
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. PREVIEWS AND OPENINGS—CITY Abbie Hoffman Died for Our Sins Theater Festival: The 20th annual performance mashup celebrates the anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of...Tags: Ceremonies, Music Theater, Society, Broadway, Second City
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In the Web edition
Read 2008 Tribune book reviews at chicagotribune.com/books. Check out reviews of these books at the same Web site: "The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China From the Bottom Up," by Liao Yiwu "Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion,"... -
Tower of Babel, other big thoughts at humanities fest
Chicago Tribune reporterGrand notions, from the Tower of Babel to the Burnham Plan to transhumanism, are to be explored at this fall's Chicago Humanities Festival, with help from scheduled presenters such as writer Gore Vidal, artist Robert Irwin, historians David Kennedy and...Tags: Festive Event, History, Northwestern University, Hyde Park, West Loop
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A poison pen
Bloomberg NewsReading "The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal" is like watching a cobra devour forest vermin. Even if you don't have much feeling for the prey, you may pause at the thought of what might happen if the monster turned its attention on you. Not that Vidal...Tags: George Bush, American Revolutionary War, Adolf Hitler, John Updike, Italo Calvino
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Reviews are in: B'Way cast recordings
Curious about the changing sound of the Great White Way? Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty weighs in on five noteworthy cast recordings from the year on Broadway -- four from new shows that couldn't be more wildly disparate and one from a classic that'...Tags: Olivia Newton-John, Washington Heights (Manhattan, New York), Minority Groups, Broadway, Popular Music
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Annual Hay Festival is one for the books
The small market town of Hay, nestled on the border between England and Wales, is an unlikely setting for one of the world's biggest book festivals. It has a population of less than 2,000, and the nearest train station is 30 miles away. Yet each year,...Tags: Festive Event, Arthur Miller, Bobby Fischer, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo
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A Handy Collection Rekindles Respect For Vidal's Brilliant Essays
Special to The CourantGore Vidal is one of America's most pugnacious, intelligent and politically engaged essayists, but until now, the only book of his essays readily available was "United States," a 1,000-page compendium the size of a phone book. This handier volume, neatly...Tags: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Civil Rights, John Updike, Roland Barthes
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Cultural events that shaped '68
LITERATURE "Myra Breckinridge" by Gore Vidal. The clever novel (disguised as a diary) initially derided as pornography ends up making eloquent sport of sex and gender. Also vital to 1968 and beyond: "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver. An angry, powerful...Tags: Tom Wolfe, Sony Corp., Stanley Kubrick, Duke Ellington, Dance
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