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Aug 24, 2015 · His readers on the left forgave Gore Vidal when he veered from legitimate criticism of Israel into cracks like his remark that “Jews are guests in America.”
Aug 4, 2015 · Then in 1962 Vidal, already a favorite guest of TV talk show host Jack Paar, made fun of Buckley and National Review for rejecting Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Mater et Magistra, which called...
Aug 24, 2020 · Vidal outlived Buckley by four years, but never forgave the man who called him a “queer” in a 1968 televised debate. When Buckley died, Vidal cheered, “RIP WFB—in hell.”
- Kitty Kelley
Jul 24, 2015 · Buckley showcased provocative debate on “Firing Line,” his program which had its debut in 1966; Vidal was a mischievous guest on talk shows. But the film presents network news in 1968 as a gray...
Aug 5, 2015 · August 5, 2015 at 7:15 p.m. EDT. In 1968, executives at ratings-hungry ABC hired two of the country's more erudite public intellectuals to render judgment on that summer's presidential conventions....
Best of Enemies captures the legendary 1968 debates between two ideological opposites: leftist Gore Vidal and neoconservative William F. Buckley.
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Jul 31, 2015 · The documentary "Best of Enemies" pinpoints a key moment of change, when two intellectual giants William F. Buckley on the right, Gore Vidal on the left, attracted a huge national audience...
