Gonzo journalism has now become a bona-fide style of writing that concerns itself with " telling it like it is ", similar to the New Journalism of the 1960s, led primarily by Tom Wolfe and also championed by Lester Bangs, George Plimpton, Terry Southern, and John Birmingham — in fact, gonzo journalism is considered a sub-genre of new journalism.

Throughout her career Plimpton has appeared in many feature films including critically successful films Running on Empty ( 1988 ), Parenthood ( 1989 ), Eye of God ( 1997 ), The Sleepy Time Gal ( 2001 ), Hair High ( 2004 ) and Small Town Murder Songs ( 2011 ).

Plimpton has also developed and established a very successful career in stage productions.

Plimpton has garnered three consecutive Tony Award nominations: A Best Featured Actress in a Play in 2007 for her role in Top Girls.

This periodical carries great weight in the literary world, but has never been financially strong ; for its first half-century, it was allegedly largely financed by its publishers and by Plimpton.

They had two children: Medora Ames Plimpton and Taylor Ames Plimpton, who has published a memoir entitled Notes from the Night: A Life After Dark.

Goldsmith has been appointed head of European Litigation at the London office of US law firm Debevoise & Plimpton.

The Lampoon has also graduated many noted authors such as George Plimpton, George Santayana, John Updike, and William Gaddis.

The artifact, now famously known as Plimpton 322 ( denoting that it is the 322nd item in the catalog ), has provided great insight into the Babylonian era math.

Ned Plimpton is a polite Southern gentleman whose mother has recently died.

In addition he has directed or produced over 180 films including movies of the week, The Triangle Factory Fire, Bill, The Chisholms, and Ruby and Oswald, the television series Ripley's Believe it Not, and the documentaries The Making of the President 1960, 1964, and 1968, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Man Ray — The Prophet of the Avant-Garde, George Plimpton and the Philharmonic and The Poet's View.

She comes to realise that, like her father ( John Houseman ), she has been unfair, unkind and judgmental to many of the people closest to her: her brother Paul ( Harris Yulin ) and his fragile wife Lynn ( Frances Conroy ), her best friend from high school Claire ( Sandy Dennis ), her first husband Sam ( Philip Bosco ), and her stepdaughter Laura ( Martha Plimpton ).

Plimpton appeared alongside Joaquin Phoenix ( then credited as Leaf Phoenix ), the younger brother of her former boyfriend, River, who portrayed her on-screen brother.

In 1991, Plimpton appeared in the Robert De Niro film Stanley & Iris in a supporting role.

In 1992, Plimpton appeared as a lesbian terrorist in the independent film Inside Monkey Zetterland.

Plimpton also appeared that year as herself in the independent film My Life's in Turnaround, a movie about filmmakers trying to make a movie.

Plimpton became involved with The Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago where she appeared in Hedda Gabler ( 2001 ) among others.

Plimpton appeared in the 2008 Entertainment Weekly photo issue spread as one of " The Hardest Working Actors In Showbiz.

Plimpton also appeared in a number of feature films as an extra and in cameo appearances.

Plimpton appeared in the 1996 documentary When We Were Kings about the " Rumble in the Jungle " Ali-Foreman Championship fight opposite Norman Mailer crediting Muhammad Ali as a poet who composed the world's shortest poem: " Me-We ".

Plimpton also appeared in the closing credits of the 2006 film " Factory Girl ".

He served as Director of Research for the George Plimpton interview series, The Writer in Society, which appeared on the Channel 8 PBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, and featured interviews with Maya Angelou, John Barth, Donald Barthelme and Bobbie Anne Mason.

A longtime fireworks aficionado, Plimpton wrote the book Fireworks, and hosted an A & E Home Video with the same name featuring his many fireworks adventures with the Gruccis of New York in Monte Carlo and for the 1983 Brooklyn Bridge Centennial.

When finally inserted at quarterback for a series in a scrimmage conducted in Pontiac, Michigan, Plimpton managed to lose yardage on each play, convincing many in the crowd that he was a professional sports clown inserted for amusement purposes, not someone who was genuinely giving his best effort.

Roland Barthes, Emmeline Pankhurst, George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and many others appear as sports reporters covering the match.

Plimpton is a screen, stage and television actress.

Plimpton currently plays Virginia Chance on the FOX television series Raising Hope.

In 1997, the Showtime Network cast Plimpton as the female lead in a television film called The Defenders: Payback.

In 1999, Plimpton had a recurring role in the television drama ER as Meg Corwyn.

After working as a model, she broke in to television with the role of Julie Davis in the children's series Zoo Family in 1985 and went on to play mechanic Emma Plimpton in the critically acclaimed and popular drama series The Flying Doctors.

Footage of him preparing for and filming his part was used in a documentary-like television special " Plimpton!

The success of Samantha garnered Plimpton a variety of roles in 1993.

Plimpton continued to make appearances in featured roles in both independent films and mainstream movies from 1994 through 1997, most notably as a close friend of radical feminist Valerie Solanas in the film I Shot Andy Warhol.

Plimpton began her career in modeling, securing an early 1980s campaign for Calvin Klein, making an impression as a sophisticated but tomboyish little girl.

This would begin a trend of Plimpton being typecast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood ( Andre Gregory )' s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford.

Plimpton shaved her head bald to play a cancer patient in Zwei Frauen, and her reputation for playing rebellious teenagers secured her the role of the indignant teenage daughter ( who shaves her head ) of Dianne Wiest in Parenthood.

Plimpton received her second nomination for a Tony Award in 2008, Best Performance by a Featured Actress In a Play, for her work in Top Girls at the Biltmore Theater.

Plimpton says in the write-up about her " I went to jury duty the other day, and somebody said, ' You always play drug addicts!

" On July 14, 2011, Plimpton was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal as Virginia Chance in Raising Hope and submitted the episode " Say Cheese " on her behalf.

She is referenced in the Lawrence Arms song " Light Breathing ( Me and Martha Plimpton in a Fancy Elevator )," a song detailing the singer unexpectedly stepping into an elevator with her and being unable to overcome shyness to ask her out.

A November 6, 1971, cartoon in The New Yorker by Whitney Darrow, Jr. shows a cleaning lady on her hands and knees scrubbing an office floor while saying to another one: " I'd like to see George Plimpton do this sometime.

In an episode of The Simpsons —" I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can "— Lisa Simpson is tempted by the Siren-like representatives of the Seven Sisters ( and George Plimpton ), who offer a scholarship to the Sister school of her choice ( and a George Plimpton hot plate ) if she will throw a

Through her friend Stevie ( Martha Plimpton ), she meets Candy Darling ( Stephen Dorff ), who in turn introduces her to Andy Warhol.

Julie ( Plimpton ), is still in high school, but is not interested in her education.

In a 1998 interview with journalist George Plimpton, Angelou discussed her writing process, and " the sometimes slippery notion of truth in nonfiction " and memoirs.