Gary Indiana is a writer, actor and artist. His memoir, I Can Give You Anything but Love, was published in 2015 and he is also the author of the trilogy Resentment: A Comedy, Three Month-Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story and Depraved Indifference.
“Despite his overthroaty, mangled diction and general clunkiness, he has won the heart of every American male suffering from testosterone psychosis – a sizeable portion of the electorate. It certainly helped that Schwarzenegger movies started playing non-stop on television, often in competing time spots, and that professional sycophants such as Larry King and Oprah Winfrey featured Schwarzenegger on their chat shows, which, being ‘non-political’, were exempt from equal-time strictures.”
Some years ago, Gary Indiana visited Eurodisney, and returned with a suggestion for how it could be improved. ‘If I ran an amusement park,’ he wrote, ‘there would be real...
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