Maher is a negotiator, observer and a joker, he serves his exclusive point of view on modern issues through his opening monologue, roundtable pondering with panelists, "New Rules" and interviews with in-studio and satellite guests and this week he had the director Ron Howard and the writer Gore Vidal.
Vidal had written an essay a year ago after the death of nemesis William F. Buckley, who he debated with energetically. Vidal writes of Newsweek magazine and their coverage of Buckley's death:
"But why is Newsweek currently lousy? Here's an example provided by an editor who keeps a sharp eye on their crimes. He sent me their recent obituary of William F. Buckley, a hero to those who feared democracies. Buckley bridled at bullies [we are assured]. But one of the rare times he lost his temper was debating Gore Vidal, who 'got under his skin,' says son Chris. When Vidal called Buckley a 'crypto-Nazi,' Buckley responded, 'Now listen, you queer, you stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in your goddamn face and you'll stay plastered.' But usually his public manners were genteel [I think they mean gentile]."...Unknown to them and everyone else who might read that publication, my views on many matters do not conform to the tired hacks who've taken over Newsweek, a magazine that has convinced itself that Bobby Kennedy Sr. was a great liberal. They love throwing about misunderstood terms like liberal and conservative those seldom suit their superficial, not to mention malicious, standards..."
Ron Howard was declared to direct Image Comics’ graphic novel “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft, which is set to release this April. According to Variety, Universal and Howard's company, Imagine Entertainment have bought the rights to the novel, and are planning it as a director’s vehicle for Howard.
The graphic novel is described to be a classic Universal horror movie similar to the Dracula and Frankenstein. The story is a little Roman a clef of Lovecraft; whose terrifying dreams comes to life, and the evils in his thoughts are set loose upon the world. The premise borrows elements of his real life, such as family mental illness and his writer’s block.
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