By Erica Schwiegershausen 8/23/12 4:44pm

Memorials

Michael Moore recounts his memories of Gore Vidal.

Dick Cavett and Friends Remember Gore Vidal

Longtime friends, colleagues and admirers of Gore Vidal gathered in the currently patriotically decorated Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre—where Mr. Vidal’s 1960 play The Best Man is playing through September 9—on Thursday afternoon to pay their respects to the recently departed writer. The mood was serious yet not solemn as many who were likely humbled to be counted among Mr. Vidal’s contemporaries took the stage to recount memories and share anecdotes from their own experiences with the man.

Reading selections from his own eulogy for Mr. Vidal and praising his friend’s great wit, Dick Cavett recounted many of Mr. Vidal’s most celebrated one-liners. His favorite, he told the audience: “Success is not enough. One’s friends must fail.”

“Whenever my friend succeeds, I die a little,” was another Vidal aphorism recalled to much laughter, and, reading a line from a message prepared by David Mamet for the memorial, Liz Smith decreed Mr. Vidal “smart enough to see through the self-interest of everyone except himself.” Yet none of this seemed to remotely deter the hordes of successful friends who seemed to be endlessly seeking his advice. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/22/11 7:19pm

War

Obama's Action in Libya Raises Questions with Nadler, Weiner

“I think what he did was illegal and unconstitutional.”

That was Jerry Nadler, the liberal Democratic congressman, in an interview this weekend, referring to President Obama and the military intervention in Libya.

Those concerns were also raised on a conference call Saturday, where other liberals, like Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, raised constitutional questions about Read More

By Eliot Brown 9/16/08 9:40pm

Brodsky Slides in Front of City’s Stadium Plans

On Thursday, inside the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., two legislators will convene a hearing on the financing of New York sports stadiums. Neither are from New York City, but the duo, Assemblyman Richard Brodsky of Westchester and U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich of Cleveland, have begun a crusade against a complex city-crafted plan Read More

By Steve Kornacki 1/24/08 9:56pm

For Kucinich, It's a Matter of Self-Preservation

Usually when a presidential candidate drops out, the immediate question is whether he or she will endorse one of the remaining candidates.

But with Dennis Kucinich, who’s spent the last five years seeking the presidency with little to show for it and who formally abandoned his second bid this afternoon, there’s a more interesting question: Read More

By Felix Gillette 6:38pm

Leno Gives NBC a Pass

On the night of Jan. 7, NBC’s Jay Leno interviewed Republican candidate for president Ron Paul on the Tonight Show. During the course of the interview, Mr. Leno noted that Mr. Paul had recently been “screwed over” by FOX News execs, who had decided not to invite Mr. Paul to participate in the Republican Forum Read More