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...Watching Buckley and Vidal is a reminder of a less needy age....
...But that benign conclusion was never likely to result from the series of encounters between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr during the explosive US political party conventions of 1968, the true story...
...You can see James Baldwin debate William Buckley in 1965. Or Richard Feynman lecture on photons to an audience in Auckland in 1979....
...In this case it’s 1968 and the launch of a series of late-night television debates between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr....
...Now try this I really enjoyed Best of Enemies, James Graham’s new play about the televised debates between William Buckley and Gore Vidal....
...The Romantic by William Boyd, Viking £20, 464 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...liberal Gore Vidal....
...One sizzling recent example was James Graham’s Best of Enemies at London’s Young Vic, which dramatised genuine debates between Gore Vidal and William F Buckley Jr....
...In a now inconceivable piece of broadcasting, the ABC network set the writers William Buckley and Gore Vidal against each other in a saga of debates....
...On Friday, Williams, one of the sport’s most successful teams, was sold to US investors Dorilton Capital....
...Gore Vidal. The Kray twins. Cecil Beaton. Anne Fleming. Rich friends who financed his survival; artists against whom he pitted himself; glittery personalities who bolstered his self-image....
...This meaty, comic drama, exploring the vexed relationship between politics and populism, was written in 1960 by Gore Vidal....
...Jean and her sister Susan grew up in a gilded, dysfunctional world, where film stars and studio moguls were everyday visitors and her mother, Doris, was best friends with Gore Vidal’s mother....
...The “heroes” of Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon’s look-back-at-anger documentary are Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley....
...His rising literary star combined with his patrician manners, movie-star good looks and serrated wit to gain him entrée to the world of the rich and famous, including Tennessee Williams, Anaïs Nin, Christopher...
...Sergio Y., by Alexandre Vidal Porto, translated by Alex Ladd, Europa Editions, RRP£9.99/$16 The first novel by the Brazilian diplomat-turned-writer to be translated into English is narrated by a renowned...
...Or, as the smartly observant Vidal observed, “Tennessee could not possess his own life until he had written about it.”...
...The master of such leaps was Gore Vidal (1925-2012)....
...What is certainly true is that Vidal was greatly esteemed in the production offices of the BBC....
...Hollywood beckoned, with a fistful of television and film writing credits, most notably redrafting the screenplay for Ben Hur and writing one for Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer....
...Other members of the group are Lyon & Turnbull, Lawrences of Crewkerne and the Russian art specialist William MacDougall....
...Exposing sexual hypocrisy has long been one of Vidal’s delights....
...Or, come to that, William Faulkner on Mark Twain: “a hack writer who would not have been considered fourth-rate in Europe.”)...
...A Village Lost and Found, the book I wrote with photohistorian Elena Vidal, delves into the work of stereographer T.R....
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