![]() He appeared onscreen to introduce several of the dramas he wrote for live television in the 1950s and, in the ’60s and ’70s became a familiar figure on late-night talk shows. ![]() Vidal’s suave good looks and singularly self-possessed air made him a natural before the camera, and the camera brought him “the sort of honor that,’’ as he once conceded, “I do lust for, the attention of the great audience.’’ Whether casting a cold eye on America’s past in such historical novels as “Burr’’ (1973) and “Lincoln’’ (1984) or lampooning America’s present in such fictional burlesques as “Myra Breckinridge’’ (1968), he prided himself on his ability to shock. Vidal’s books is a burnished iconoclasm and delight in flouting conventional opinion. ![]()
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