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Armstrong would boast that he had by no means had a lover in his life, "and I’ve by no means needed one, I paid for intercourse every time and I’m the happiest one that ever lived." Armstrong was "extraordinarily promiscuous," like Vidal, "literally a revolving door," says Woolf-yet not like Vidal he was more at ease about being gay. "But then Gore was a celeb and consider that point when no one was out," says Woolf. Lucy Fisher, a movie producer who knew Vidal for 35 years, stated that in Ravello Vidal would costume in mismatched clothes, and often in shorts "like a ragamuffin, quite the other to the elegant Gore. In response to local lore and people who knew the couple, there were regular events, usually wild get-togethers, hosted by Austen who would come often to the main square in Ravello and announce that a party would happen on a selected evening. In Ravello the locals knew Vidal as Il Maestro or Il Scrittore. |
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