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...The hotel is soaked in LA mythology: it’s the hang-out where Gore Vidal wrote Myra Breckinridge. It’s where Jean Harlow had a wild affair with Clark Gable in 1933....
...On a different, baser level, cookery columnists nick each other’s work and disguise their sources — with different degrees of success....
...In the 1990s, it became the home of the US writer Gore Vidal, who lived in a large villa in Ravello on its southern coast....
...Praising Nixon for his detente with the Soviet Union and China, Gore Vidal once said: “Forget his motives. They were always base…What matters is what is done.”...
...I did it just in the nick of time. The apprehension was the worst bit. The reality has been a lot more enjoyable and rewarding.”...
...Estranged for years, but sharing their DNA with a haggard, growling, reformed-alcoholic dad (played by a Nick Nolte, who seems to be attempting a dawn raid on the best supporting actor Oscar nomination),...
...“This [the United States of Amnesia as Gore Vidal likes to call it],” he sighs, “is a tremendous handicap … when I talk to policymakers and I cite some historical analogy they think, ‘There he goes again...
...“From a technical standpoint we’ve had a pretty big run-up, and we’re just consolidating now,” said Nick Kalivas, an analyst at MF Global....
...The docu-spoof approach allows an illusion of vérité – the penguins’ offhand streams of extemporisation to camera were surely inspired by Nick Park’s Creature Comforts – and prompts hilariously distressed...
...Nick Ogden, the founder of WorldPay and one of Ariadne’s investors, once told me he was most proud of “never missing payroll”. Entrepreneurs know the buck stops with them....
...“It is not just for the trade events,” he adds, “people from all over the world flock to UK academies such as Vidal Sassoon, Sachs and Toni & Guy.”...
...Nick Fraser is editor of the BBC’s series of world documentaries, “Storyville”....
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