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A carregar... Pink Triangle: The Feuds and Private Lives of Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, and Famous Members of Their Entouragespor Darwin Porter
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Prurient, salacious gossip sometimes unbelievable. I know much of the book is true but some aspects of it seem far fetched. This is a huge book and by the end it felt like the three writers were bragging and lying about the conquest of every man, actor, actress, straight or gay they ever met right up to and including the President of the United States and his wife. Claiming that between the three of them they had had every major male star and if they hadn't then they knew someone who had. Even if every word was true how the author got away with writing these slanderous or libelous (I never know which is which) claims. Fascinating reading regardless of truth. ( ) A somewhat shocking story of Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and their ilk from Hollywood and Broadway. The amount of casual and explicit sex among all the characters with same sex and opposite sex is amazing. Some of the Hollywood stars like Marlon Brando and Paul Newman were bisexuals and had lots of sex with men and women. It was true of most of Hollywood. This is an eye opener. I don't think sex is as free today as it was during the 1950s and early 1960s. The book is too long at 700 pages but it is a fun read. It is not particularly well structured but a good read. sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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HTML:One hot summer night in 1945, three young American writers, each an enfant terrible, came together in a stuffy Manhattan apartment for the first time. Each member of this pink triangle was on the dawn of world fameâ??Tennessee Williams for A Streetcar Named Desire; Gore Vidal for his notorious homosexual novel, The City and the Pillar; and Truman Capote for Other Voices, Other Rooms, a book that had been marketed with a photograph depicting Capote as a underaged sex object that caused as much controversy as the prose inside. Each of the three remained competitively and defiantly provocative throughout the course of his writing career. Initially hailed by critics as "the darlings of the gods," each of them would, in time, be attacked for his contributions to film, the theater, and publishing. Some of their works would be widely reviewed as "obscene rantings from perverted sociopaths." From that summer night emerged betrayals that eventually evolved into lawsuits, stolen lovers, public insults, and the most famous and flamboyant rivalries in America's literary history. The private opinions of these authors about their celebrity acquaintances usually left scar tissue. Vidal became the most iconoclastic writer since Voltaire, needling and satirizing the sacred cows of his era and explosively describing subjects which included America's gay founding fathers, the lesbian affairs of Eleanor Roosevelt, his own seduction of the Beat Generation's spiritual leader and guru, Jack Kerouac. The book contains an overview of Vidal's hot, then glacial, relationship with the fabled diarist Anaïs Nin, and the drawn-out slugfests which followed. Capote became the mascot of the ultra-fashionable jet set, surrounded and showcased by his glamorous "swans." Eventually, Capote feuded not only with Vidal, but with "The Queen of the Best-Sellers," Jacqueline Susann, publicly referring to her as "a truck driver in drag." Capote's own struggles for bestsellerdom are depicted during the research of his all-time hit, In Cold Blood, wherein he falls hopelessly in love with one of its killers. The book contains details about his hosting of "The Party of the Century," and his self-destructive descent into isolation, alcohol, and drugs. Tennessee Williams, attacked for his "incurable sense of decadence," became as notorious as his plays. His tumultuous private life is explored as never before in a portrait that's as poignant and flamboyant as any character he created, including that of Blanche DuBois. Did Tennessee really perform fellatio on JFK at his Palm Beach compound? Did Warren Beatty really have sex with him as a means of procuring his role as the gigolo in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone? What really happened when a then-unknown actor, Marlon Brando, arrived on Tennessee's doorstep in Provincetown during World War II? Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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