live from golgotha the gospel according to gore vidal

In the 1920s and 1930s, he was co-founder of three American airlines: the Ludington Line, which merged with others and became Eastern Airlines, Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, which became TWA), and Northeast Airlines, which he founded with Earhart, as well as the Boston and Maine Railroad.

Vidal's father, was one of the first Army Air Corps pilots and, according to biographer Susan Butler, was the great love of Amelia Earhart's life. 'I wasn't going to write as Gene since there was already one. Vidal dropped both of his first two names, saying, he 'wanted a sharp, distinctive name, appropriate for an aspiring author or national political leader.

The name Gore was added in honor of his maternal grandfather, Thomas Gore, Democratic senator from Oklahoma. Albans preparatory school, his future alma mater. then Gore was added at my christening then at fourteen I got rid of the first two names.' Vidal was christened by the headmaster of St. my birth certificate says 'Eugene Louis Vidal': this was changed to Eugene Luther Vidal, Jr. The middle name, Louis, was a mistake on the part of his father, 'who could not remember for certain whether his own name was Eugene Louis or Eugene Luther.' As Vidal explained in his memoir Palimpsest, '. on Octoin West Point, New York, the only child of 1st Lieutenant Eugene Luther Vidal (1895–1969) and Nina Gore (1903–1978). Gore Vidal was born Eugene Louis Vidal, Jr. Never afraid that his comments would be offensive and always enjoying media attention, Vidal constantly used his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state his views on life in no uncertain terms, which led him into several well-publicized spats with such figures as Norman Mailer and William F. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.Vidal did not just write about politics, he ran for political office twice and was a longtime political commentator. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture-live from the suburb of Golgotha-the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps.Īs a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land-Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family-Timothy struggles to complete his story. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia.

Live from golgotha the gospel according to gore vidal