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Tag Archives | Abraham Lincoln

American Author Gore Vidal Dies aged 86

From Timeslive: “Vidal died Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills of complications of pneumonia,” the Los Angeles Times said, quoting the author’s nephew Burr Steers. Vidal’s literary legacy includes a series of historical novels — “Burr,” ”1876,” ”Lincoln” and “The Golden Age” among them — as well as the campy transexual comedy “Myra […]

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Books in the Movies in 2012

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It seems that more and more movies these days are being based on books than on original screenplays. And who can blame film makers for wanting to take a wildly popular novel and turn it into a (hopefully) wildly popular movie? “Give up on trying to be original. Every song has been sung, every picture […]

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