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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]
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]
Before Hitchens's political shift, the American author and polemicist Gore Vidal was apt to speak of Hitchens as his "dauphin" or "heir". [64] [65] In 2010 Hitchens attacked Vidal in a Vanity Fair piece headlined "Vidal Loco", calling him a "crackpot" for his adoption of 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Gore Vidal: The Man Who Said No (1983) is a documentary film directed, produced, and edited by Gary Conklin.The film follows famed American writer and political gadfly Gore Vidal in his quixotic campaign against incumbent California Governor Jerry Brown for the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate in 1982.
The play features a fictionalised retelling of the 1968 ABC TV debates between William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal, which take place during the Republican and Democratic Party conventions. Graham was inspired by a documentary film on the subject by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon .
Live from Golgotha is a novel by Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament.Told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with Saint Paul, the 1992 novel's narrative shifts in time as Timothy and Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity.
Shaffer conceded the lack of Vidal and Buckley think pieces, but said Pornhub users could find “ sexual wellness posts about women recovering from hysterectomies and how they can enjoy sex.”
Messiah is a satirical novel by Gore Vidal, first published in 1954 in the United States by E.P. Dutton. [2] It is the story of the creation of a new religion, Cavism, which quickly comes to replace the established but failing Christian religion.