(It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! X-Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), every bad decision or moment of sensual joy, Cumming shows how every experience - good or bad - has shaped who he is today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage
Actor: The Anniversary Party
4 out of 5 stars Gore Vidal found fame writing about homosexuality in "The City and the Pillar" but, for the rest of his life, apparently felt this accomplishment was useless as it pigeonholed him and, in a way, thwarted his career as a politician, his most cherished ambition
The Smithsonian Institution (1998) ISBN 0-375-50121-5