Gore Vidal tells on Clark Gable...

Watching election coverage tonight, I picked started my usual multi-tasking and began flipping through Written By, a monthly magazine published by the Writers Guild of America. Damn if I didn't come across a blog item in the most unexpected of places.

The magazine interviews writer Gore Vidal who has a new memoir out called "Point to Point Navigation: A memoir 1964 to 2006." I imagine there is plenty of dirt in the book since there was plenty of dirt in the interview promoting it! What jumped out at me was a story Vidal tells about Clark Gable, the handsome Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind."

It seems that Gable really did give a damn that the movie was being directed by the openly gay George Cukor who was famously replaced early on in the filming by Victor Fleming. Vidal says that Cukor told him personally that Gable wanted him removed from the film because in his younger days, Gable had been a hustler and Cuckor was one of his clients!

I gotta get this book!