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 appeared in many television roles throughout her career.

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 ).

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

George had three siblings: Francis Taylor Pearsons Plimpton Jr., Oakes Ames Plimpton, and Sarah Gay Plimpton.

) Plimpton sparred for three rounds with boxing greats Archie Moore and Sugar Ray Robinson, while on assignment for Sports Illustrated.

Plimpton attending the 63rd Tony Awards, 2009

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.

" 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.

Plimpton was nominated for a Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a Motion Picture.

In October 2007 Plimpton completed a starring role in A Midsummer Night's Dream on Broadway in New York City.

In October 2007, the Board announced that Woodrow W. Campbell, senior partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, would be taking over Chairmanship of the board.

However some scholars have disputed the Pythagorean interpretation of this tablet ; see Plimpton 322 for details .</ ref > indicating, in particular, that there was sophisticated understanding on the topic " in Mesopotamia in 1850 BCE.

Cohen, Feldman, and Plimpton were also nominated for awards for their performances in The Goonies.

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.

The show premiered on September 21, 2010, receiving strong reviews for both Plimpton and the pilot itself.

In 2009, she was profiled by The New York Times for their " A Night Out With ..." series, in which Plimpton hosted an evening of poker at The Players.

George Plimpton was also part of the press corps, covering the fight for Sports Illustrated.

From 1953 to 1960, he worked with George Plimpton as the Art Editor for The Paris Review.

John F. Kennedy, through George Plimpton, is indirectly responsible for a full-length biography of General Ames.

Two articles by Richard Cummings, " An American in Paris " ( The American Conservative ) and " The Fiction of the State " ( Lobster ), disclose that the CIA provided funds for The Paris Review, using publisher Sadruddin Aga Khan's foundation as a conduit, and that Plimpton was an " agent of influence " for the CIA.

Peter Matthiessen took the magazine over from Harold Humes and ousted him as editor, replacing him with Plimpton, using it as his cover for his CIA activities.

Outside the literary world, Plimpton was famous for competing in professional sporting events and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.

" A feature in Mad Magazine titled " Some Really Dangerous Jobs for George Plimpton " spotlighted him trying to swim across Lake Erie, strolling through New York's Times Square in the middle of the night, and spending a day with Jerry Lewis.

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

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

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.