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Best of Enemies is a 2015 American documentary film co-directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville about the televised debates between intellectuals Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. during the 1968 United States presidential election. The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. It was acquired by Magnolia and Participant Media. [4]
Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (/ v ɪ ˈ d ɑː l / vih-DAHL; born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit. [1]
Myra Breckinridge is a 1968 satirical novel by Gore Vidal written in the form of a diary.Described by the critic Dennis Altman as "part of a major cultural assault on the assumed norms of gender and sexuality which swept the western world in the late 1960s and early 1970s", [1] the book's major themes are feminism, transsexuality, American expressions of machismo and patriarchy, and deviant ...
There was Gore Vidal’s 1973 novel Burr, and a 1978 episode of CBS Radio Mystery Theater. In 1989, Estelle Fox Kleiger published The Trial of Levi Weeks: Or The Manhattan Well Mystery .
[66] [67] On the back of Hitchens's memoir Hitch-22, among the praise from notable figures, Vidal's endorsement of Hitchens as his successor is crossed out in red and annotated "NO, C.H." Hitchens's strong advocacy of the war in Iraq gained him a wider readership, and in September 2005 he was named as fifth on the list of the "Top 100 Public ...
The problem with that language is that every jackass who is out there “doing my own research” is someone who “investigates information that concerns matters of public interest,” and ...
Caligula earned some pre-release controversy after Gore Vidal, who had written the script, distanced himself from the film, [172] and actress Maria Schneider, who objected to the nude scenes, walked off the set and was replaced with then-unknown Teresa Ann Savoy. [173] Upon its release, Vidal stated that it was "easily one of the worst films ...
Myra Breckinridge is a 1970 American comedy film based on Gore Vidal's 1968 novel of the same name. The film was directed by Michael Sarne , and featured Raquel Welch in the title role. It also starred John Huston as Buck Loner, Mae West as Leticia Van Allen, Farrah Fawcett , Rex Reed , Roger Herren, and Roger C. Carmel .