Probably my favorite documentary on Vidal. It's from the "American Masters" documentary series, and originally aired on 30 July 2003. All rights belong to PBS.
I had the great privilege to hear a "talk" with him. He was a bit late but made it up by more stories after his schedule talk. We were there for almost 3 hours, most of us had been in classes for 10 hrs, and none of us wanted to leave. He signed all of our books. We unofficially followed him to the campus restaurant, w/o a resi & got in a bit of trouble, but we sat near him. It's one of my favorite college memories.
I'm honestly jealous. I did not become a fan of his until after he had passed, but would have loved to have heard him - especially during the 90's to early 2000's.
@@StBindo the only bitterness I have of that is lending my friend the book he signed and she lost it in less than one week. I'm still bitter 15 yrs later. I started reading his stuff, among others, in HS (late 90s-early 00s). When he came on campus, we had a packed house. We were all so excited, from liberals to conservatives, we all respected this man.
One of the most engrossing and entertaining documentaries I have watched in a long time, thanks so very much for sharing it here. I am inspired to do some reading!
"Burr" and "Lincoln" are my personal favorite novels of his. But his collected essays are the best way to see what really made him tick. His novels brought him initial fame, but his essays are what made him stay relevant in the realm of politics for so long. I'd personally suggest to get his "United States: Essays 1952-1992". You can find them at archive.org I think, if you don't mind digital. But they aren't too expensive if you're a hardback fan like myself. His later writings on the Bush administration and the war in Iraq are also among his best work. A bit depressing, but he was spot on most of the time. Happy reading to you.
@@StBindo Thanks so much for the reply and the recommendations! I have put them all on my reading list. Watching the doc I was actually thinking I wanted to read "Burr" as I think he is such a neglected figure. I was intrigued by the comments that Vidal takes a critical view of Jefferson, and yet the conversations in the novel which show him in a less than perfect light can be verified by the historical records. Enjoying your channel, thanks for the good work you are doing.
@@StBindo I really enjoyed his two memoirs, "Palimpsest" and "Point to Point Navigation." Very smart, very entertaining, full of stories about famous people in all walks of life, and very readable. He led a remarkably full life. I had seen this doc before on TH-cam, a few years ago, but it was certainly worth a second viewing. Thanks.
Gore Vidal ranks very high among my most admired individuals within the last 4,500 years. I thought I'd seen every piece of film available to the public on the life/writings of our most overlooked National Treasure, Gore Vidal - this was a treat indeed! Thank you St Bindo!
How I miss Gore Vidal, can you imagine what he would make of this bizarre political phenomena we are experiencing now. I don’t think he would be surprised.
I read his work my entire adult life, but I must admit that towards the end I got tired of his iconoclasm and cynicism, which began to seem facile to me.
@@StBindo I think it's important to research a writers best work and limit yourself to just that. For some highly recognized writers that may be only one book. Tropic of Cancer and the first Dune come to mind.
@@rkrw576I think it's important to research a writers best work and limit yourself to just that. For some highly recognized writers that may be only one book. Tropic of Cancer and the first Dune come to mind.
He was always a raconteur , I always enjoyed him . His books and , even more so , interviews were always interesting and on point . His tongue was cutting , he did not care who liked it.
I enjoy Gore Vidal immensely, this was a great documentary thanks for this Upload! As Socrates said, "An untelevised life isn't worth living" lmao brilliant
Netflix probably don't want to upset their advertisers who would be in fear of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the bible thumpers in the Bible Belt.
This man was fantastic. Intelligent, a wit, brilliant orator, so much style and spoke out against injustice. No one listened! Look at the damn mess we are in! I suspect he would not be surprised. "I told you so." I am sure he would say with a wry smile. Thank you for uploading this gem.🪷
The carnival America is today has been very long in the making. Gore Vidal was right and wouldn't have been surprised by today's crass reality-TV chaos.
I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED THE INTELLIGENCE AND WHIT OF GOR VIDALL SO MISSING IN TODAY´S PLASTIC WORLD. GORE TOLD THE TRUTH AS SMART PAOPLE ARE JUST FINDING OUT NOW. HE IS ONE OF THOSE THINKERS WHOM I MISS VERY MUCH.
First time I've seen this - neatly complements the BBC 1995 Omnibus profile, both better than the preceding South Bank Show documentary. Thanks for uploading.
Invaluable. Insightful. A profound gift for posterity and all of we admirers of ^ Der Vidalian ^ incredible influence (and, yes, especially to the writer we've become).
I had to go through the comments to see if someone had said that already. And Tennessee Williams was a beautiful baby and young child also as his sister Rose 😊
this man I always admired for his intelligence, wit and honesty. I highly recommend the biography by Fred Kaplan of Vidal, published by Doubleday ,a division of Random House in New York
there are many reasons he did not win but one of them was the voters thought he "spends too much time in Italy and abroad" which is really emblematic of just how provincial ameriKa is deep, deep in its DNA.
13:08----"Realists are always hated in a society of sanctimonious hustlers, which is what the US has been since the beginning." That's true 10 times over. I wrote the biography of America's first poet in English, Thomas Morton of "Merrymount," and he too---a practical, educated, perceptive, good-humored and tolerant frontiersman---was deliberately reduced to a criminal buffoon by Plimoth's self-appointed moralists and Boston's authoritarian Puritans, followed by generations of loyal imperialist pseudo-historians polishing their careers. Explore Morton's life and work at Ancientlights.org.
Long time fan of Vidal and have read almost everything he wrote and watched dozens of video clips....this is one of the better ones, for sure....but I would have loved to see the one with Kevin Spacey playing Vidal. Unfortunately, Netflix for some reason won't released it....and the mainstream media has not even mentioned it.
@@MTMF.london ...... I know that that is what Netflix says.....but how is this alleged sexual misconduct that apparently occurred 30 years ago related to the documentary ? Is netflix gonna pull back every movie that has somebody in it who has been accused of some wrong doing at some point in their lives ? Of course not. ....IMHO, This is censorship for political reasons that have nothing to do with Spacey's alleged sexual misconduct...
I remember the book on NYTimes best selling list., ( “BURR”) I had no idea his grampa was in the HOUSE of SENATE. Gore Vidal was telling the story 50 years ago, with regards to our checkered past & dark motives...WoW , just WoW !
His family literally helped build this country. Sure I've got genealogy going back before the Revolution on my dad's side but I'm pretty sure they were just horse thieves or something.
He would have an opinion; that's certain. I think he'd agree that the peculiar confluence of conflicts all of which arose from the systematic Deep State elimination of the Kennedys and King gave us George Floyd, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,, and many more. He would have remarked that Lyndon was a far cry from JFK.
Apoplectic? No, not really. He lived during the Depression, WW2, Richard Nixon and the Bush's. He'd seen a lot, and saw the American republic as a history of shoplifters, governed by energetic mediocrities, stealing this, that and the other. Nothing much would surprise Mr. Vidal, in fact, if he were alive today (2020), he'd say he expected it, that it was inevitably headed in that direction.
A great intellect that too few I know here in Australia are aware of. His openness, honesty and frankness is amazing. I'd love to hear his opinions of today's weirdness.
I've been watching everything on TH-cam about Gore Vidal. The country is much poorer since he's been gone. Thankfully we have his brilliant novels and essays. Gore, and James Baldwin are my favorite people to listen to and read.
Gore Vidal cared about one thing only. And this was not America, not the poor, not the past and not the future. The only precious thing that he was preoccupied with this was his bloated self.
Vidal was deeply cynical but never to the point of "Oh, what's the use?" Somehow, after hearing or reading Vidal, I'm always fired up and ready to get back in the fray. We may not give up on this country.
What good have social programs done? None, we're told. We still have the problems we had before if not worse. Well that's like claiming house cleaning does no good. I cleaned the house back in the 1960s and here it is all messy again. What a wasted effort that was. We don't need a war on poverty. War is a bad metaphor to employ. There's never going to be victory over disorder. It's an ongoing continuous effort to keep anything running. Civilization takes continuous effort and costs money. Our right here in the US has convinced us that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves if we suggest there should be any effort to do battle against disorder. The thoughtless label employed to shut down any progressive impulse in this country is the word, "socialism" as if we're out to enact a Soviet style politburo. And so here we are today, residing in a country that is rapidly falling into ruin. We don't even have free and fair elections in this country anymore. The GOP has seen to that. I guarantee you we'll spend more on public ignorance than we ever spent on public education, teacher unions and all. I'm not about having the USA veer from the hard right over to the hard left. What I'm working toward is a working balance between greed and morality. Greed represents the short term. Morality represents the long term. Both sets of values are essential to life. Greed is good but it's not the only good. Our children's children need representation too, and that can only happen through us.
Hmmmmm.....interesting. I take it your preferred genre is also historical fiction (with an emphasis on American history), as was the great Gore Vidal's....?
In another universe, the universe I would prefer to live in, Gore Vidal was US president for at least 50 years. Obviously that universe doesn't have term limits for the right person.
@@MTMF.london thank you i will. I had heard his name via parents but didn't know any more. I've looked a bit more, and definitely interested. Thank you for suggesting.
Wow. What great insights into power and human nature. I wonder what Gore would have thought about Trump and Twitter. I'm heading out to get a copy of Lincoln. Thanks very much it was better than taking a degree in history.
He definitely was...there's this picture of him wearing a suit and sitting in a chair, leaning forward, partial shadow on his face. It must have been taken in the 1950s, when he was in his mid/late 20s. Just...wow. Stunningly gorgeous.
3:50 Over the past week, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was torn down. Mr. Gore's cynical, deconstructionist musings about the "corridors of political power" seem like quaint insights from a prior historical era.
I'd have to disagree. I think his musings on power, and in particular, on the power of the "courtier" media to shape our perceptions of that power, are just as urgently relevant now as they were back then. People in power continue to lie for the sake of power, and the media spread these lies to the rest of us.
First one of his books that I read was Lincoln . I was bought & paid for then . Much as I was when I read Poe for the first time . Albeit , I didn't need a dictionary for Vidal as much as with Poe , but I was young when I met him, and he is still with me today. As is Vidal .
And yet, we know really nothing about who this man really is. He’ll tell you all about Kennedy or Roosevelt, but when you ask him anything personal, he goes off on a story about Socrates or Plato. The wall never comes down. He’s witty and his books are well documented with facts. He’s brilliant and witty but what do we really know about him, not much about him.
Having read his second memoir, POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION, I can honestly say I know no more about the man behind the curtain than anyone else. He wasn't interested in revealing his own inner self. The people he knew, the things he thought, sure, but not what he truly felt. He never unclasped the book of his secret soul to his readers.
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The late great Gore Vidal is sorely missed in these dark times of lies and ignorance.
Amen
I never get tired of listening to Gore Vidal. Like others have said, thanks for the uploading.
I had the great privilege to hear a "talk" with him. He was a bit late but made it up by more stories after his schedule talk. We were there for almost 3 hours, most of us had been in classes for 10 hrs, and none of us wanted to leave. He signed all of our books. We unofficially followed him to the campus restaurant, w/o a resi & got in a bit of trouble, but we sat near him. It's one of my favorite college memories.
I'm honestly jealous. I did not become a fan of his until after he had passed, but would have loved to have heard him - especially during the 90's to early 2000's.
@@StBindo the only bitterness I have of that is lending my friend the book he signed and she lost it in less than one week. I'm still bitter 15 yrs later. I started reading his stuff, among others, in HS (late 90s-early 00s). When he came on campus, we had a packed house. We were all so excited, from liberals to conservatives, we all respected this man.
@@vp-oe1em im bitter i lost somehow my signed andy warhol bio ! xox
My favorite American - a true Patriot who loved America warts and all.
That is what patriotism is. You are not blind to the bad..
One of the most engrossing and entertaining documentaries I have watched in a long time, thanks so very much for sharing it here. I am inspired to do some reading!
"Burr" and "Lincoln" are my personal favorite novels of his.
But his collected essays are the best way to see what really made him tick. His novels brought him initial fame, but his essays are what made him stay relevant in the realm of politics for so long.
I'd personally suggest to get his "United States: Essays 1952-1992". You can find them at archive.org I think, if you don't mind digital. But they aren't too expensive if you're a hardback fan like myself.
His later writings on the Bush administration and the war in Iraq are also among his best work. A bit depressing, but he was spot on most of the time.
Happy reading to you.
@@StBindo Thanks so much for the reply and the recommendations! I have put them all on my reading list. Watching the doc I was actually thinking I wanted to read "Burr" as I think he is such a neglected figure. I was intrigued by the comments that Vidal takes a critical view of Jefferson, and yet the conversations in the novel which show him in a less than perfect light can be verified by the historical records. Enjoying your channel, thanks for the good work you are doing.
@@StBindo thank you very much for the suggestions.
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I really enjoyed his two memoirs, "Palimpsest" and "Point to Point Navigation." Very smart, very entertaining, full of stories about famous people in all walks of life, and very readable.
He led a remarkably full life.
I had seen this doc before on TH-cam, a few years ago, but it was certainly worth a second viewing. Thanks.
Gore Vidal ranks very high among my most admired individuals within the last 4,500 years. I thought I'd seen every piece of film available to the public on the life/writings of our most overlooked National Treasure, Gore Vidal - this was a treat indeed! Thank you St Bindo!
How I miss Gore Vidal, can you imagine what he would make of this bizarre political phenomena we are experiencing now. I don’t think he would be surprised.
I read his work my entire adult life, but I must admit that towards the end I got tired of his iconoclasm and cynicism, which began to seem facile to me.
@@rkrw576
Same for me.
@@StBindo I think it's important to research a writers best work and limit yourself to just that. For some highly recognized writers that may be only one book. Tropic of Cancer and the first Dune come to mind.
@@rkrw576I think it's important to research a writers best work and limit yourself to just that. For some highly recognized writers that may be only one book. Tropic of Cancer and the first Dune come to mind.
He was always a raconteur , I always enjoyed him . His books and , even more so , interviews were always interesting and on point . His tongue was cutting , he did not care who liked it.
A longtime fan of Gore Vidal. His insights are right on point . Thank you for uploading this.
This really is very good. I enjoyed every minute. It is always good to be reminded there is another America.
I enjoy Gore Vidal immensely, this was a great documentary thanks for this Upload! As Socrates said, "An untelevised life isn't worth living" lmao brilliant
Society needs more Mr Gore Vidal .Pleasant for and with everyone.
It makes me so angry that Netflix will never let us see “Gore” just because it stars Kevin Spacey.
That is ridiculous. So irritating that Netflix (and other media types) think they need to be our Mommy and Daddy.... 😡😡
ridiculous indeed. censors have made notoriously bad decisions throughout time. this is most certainly one!
Whaaaat there’s a movie?
Netflix probably don't want to upset their advertisers who would be in fear of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the bible thumpers in the Bible Belt.
If they weren't such cheap schmucks, they'd simply do what Ridley Scott did and completely edit him out of the film with a better actor.
This man was fantastic. Intelligent, a wit, brilliant orator, so much style and spoke out against injustice. No one listened! Look at the damn mess we are in! I suspect he would not be surprised. "I told you so." I am sure he would say with a wry smile. Thank you for uploading this gem.🪷
thank you for posting this
The carnival America is today has been very long in the making. Gore Vidal was right and wouldn't have been surprised by today's crass reality-TV chaos.
"We are a nation of shoplifters!" Viva la Vidal!
Yes , it's a play on what someone said of England " a Nation of ShopKeepers" ! Gore is the Man. One hell of a writer.
Thank you so much for this upload. Wonderful biop.
They don't make men like Gore Vidal anymore. A great American man of letters and a national treasure. He was way ahead of his times.
Very timely. Thanks so much for posting. Vidal was so right-on.
I HAVE ALWAYS ADMIRED THE INTELLIGENCE AND WHIT OF GOR VIDALL SO MISSING IN TODAY´S PLASTIC WORLD. GORE TOLD THE TRUTH AS SMART PAOPLE ARE JUST FINDING OUT NOW. HE IS ONE OF THOSE THINKERS WHOM I MISS VERY MUCH.
All the king's horses, and all the king's men, and not even "Gor Vidall", will get your caps key unstuck again.
First time I've seen this - neatly complements the BBC 1995 Omnibus profile, both better than the preceding South Bank Show documentary. Thanks for uploading.
Invaluable. Insightful. A profound gift for posterity and all of we admirers of ^ Der Vidalian ^ incredible influence (and, yes, especially to the writer we've become).
This documentary is RIGHT ON POINT!!!! GEORGE CARLIN & GORE VIDAL = Same Wave Length
That part of America - the Vidalian - I truly love
What a delight. Wonderfully done. Time well spent.
Thank you for posting.
A remarkable programme and just as erudite, witty and as entertaining as its subject - who must, surely, have been delighted by it
Gore was quite a looker as a younger man.
I had to go through the comments to see if someone had said that already. And Tennessee Williams was a beautiful baby and young child also as his sister Rose 😊
Thanks so much for this documentary ..
Never another one! Such a loss!
This is great. Thanks for this.
this man I always admired for his intelligence, wit and honesty. I highly recommend the biography by Fred Kaplan of Vidal, published by Doubleday ,a division of Random House in New York
You know how you know this is going to be a superb docu? Harold Bloom, of all people, appears at the one-minute mark.
Thank you for this and for Gore Vidal
Fantastic film, thank you for sharin git. This guy is on my reading list.
How i wish he won the election to Congress in 1982. Can you imagine the Novels he would have written based on the experience.
there are many reasons he did not win but one of them was the voters thought he "spends too much time in Italy and abroad" which is really emblematic of just how provincial ameriKa is deep, deep in its DNA.
13:08----"Realists are always hated in a society of sanctimonious hustlers, which is what the US has been since the beginning." That's true 10 times over. I wrote the biography of America's first poet in English, Thomas Morton of "Merrymount," and he too---a practical, educated, perceptive, good-humored and tolerant frontiersman---was deliberately reduced to a criminal buffoon by Plimoth's self-appointed moralists and Boston's authoritarian Puritans, followed by generations of loyal imperialist pseudo-historians polishing their careers. Explore Morton's life and work at Ancientlights.org.
It's fun to see the young Vidal.
Long time fan of Vidal and have read almost everything he wrote and watched dozens of video clips....this is one of the better ones, for sure....but I would have loved to see the one with Kevin Spacey playing Vidal. Unfortunately, Netflix for some reason won't released it....and the mainstream media has not even mentioned it.
Kevin Spacey's alleged sexual misconduct is behind the reason for Netflix not to release it.
@@MTMF.london ...... I know that that is what Netflix says.....but how is this alleged sexual misconduct that apparently occurred 30 years ago related to the documentary ? Is netflix gonna pull back every movie that has somebody in it who has been accused of some wrong doing at some point in their lives ? Of course not.
....IMHO, This is censorship for political reasons that have nothing to do with Spacey's alleged sexual misconduct...
The terrible, monstrous irony of his speech at 21:00 when only a year later "The Warlords" would seize total power once and for all after 9/11
Simply excellent.
Gore Vidal was a true intellectual!
I remember the book on NYTimes best selling list., ( “BURR”) I had no idea his grampa was in the HOUSE of SENATE. Gore Vidal was telling the story 50 years ago, with regards to our checkered past & dark motives...WoW , just WoW !
His family literally helped build this country. Sure I've got genealogy going back before the Revolution on my dad's side but I'm pretty sure they were just horse thieves or something.
Funny, while watching Gore Vidal as a child with his mom, I thought of Susan Sarandon. Then Susan Sarandom herself appeared.
My god. He’d be apoplectic at the state of matters in the US now.
He was already apoplectic. I think he'd find it a pretty natural outcome and he would have had something funny to say about it.
He would have an opinion; that's certain. I think he'd agree that the peculiar confluence of conflicts all of which arose from the systematic Deep State elimination of the Kennedys and King gave us George Floyd, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,, and many more. He would have remarked that Lyndon was a far cry from JFK.
I agree with you Elizabeth
Apoplectic? No, not really. He lived during the Depression, WW2, Richard Nixon and the Bush's. He'd seen a lot, and saw the American republic as a history of shoplifters, governed by energetic mediocrities, stealing this, that and the other. Nothing much would surprise Mr. Vidal, in fact, if he were alive today (2020), he'd say he expected it, that it was inevitably headed in that direction.
He's so smart. He's awesome.
A great intellect that too few I know here in Australia are aware of. His openness, honesty and frankness is amazing.
I'd love to hear his opinions of today's weirdness.
Great upload ! thank you ....anymore ?
Not of Vidal, sadly. Most of his appearances are already on TH-cam and C-SPAN.
Gore Vidal's discussion with William F. Buckley on TV in 1968 is a classic. Gore at his best. It was beautiful.
Julian the Apostate Is my fav Vidal book.
A great intellect is useless if it doesn't have a real quality to it: HONESTY. So much respect, dear Gore.
I've been watching everything on TH-cam about Gore Vidal. The country is much poorer since he's been gone. Thankfully we have his brilliant novels and essays. Gore, and James Baldwin are my favorite people to listen to and read.
I miss him.
Brilliant
Oh to have Gore here today.
Julian is my favorite of his novels too. Wonderful book.
Spalding Gray talking about suicide in this really hit me hard.
Gore Vidal cared about one thing only. And this was not America, not the poor, not the past and not the future. The only precious thing that he was preoccupied with this was his bloated self.
Vidal was deeply cynical but never to the point of "Oh, what's the use?" Somehow, after hearing or reading Vidal, I'm always fired up and ready to get back in the fray. We may not give up on this country.
What good have social programs done? None, we're told. We still have the problems we had before if not worse. Well that's like claiming house cleaning does no good. I cleaned the house back in the 1960s and here it is all messy again. What a wasted effort that was. We don't need a war on poverty. War is a bad metaphor to employ. There's never going to be victory over disorder. It's an ongoing continuous effort to keep anything running. Civilization takes continuous effort and costs money. Our right here in the US has convinced us that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves if we suggest there should be any effort to do battle against disorder. The thoughtless label employed to shut down any progressive impulse in this country is the word, "socialism" as if we're out to enact a Soviet style politburo. And so here we are today, residing in a country that is rapidly falling into ruin. We don't even have free and fair elections in this country anymore. The GOP has seen to that. I guarantee you we'll spend more on public ignorance than we ever spent on public education, teacher unions and all.
I'm not about having the USA veer from the hard right over to the hard left. What I'm working toward is a working balance between greed and morality. Greed represents the short term. Morality represents the long term. Both sets of values are essential to life. Greed is good but it's not the only good. Our children's children need representation too, and that can only happen through us.
Vidal and Carlin: wish they were still with us in the age of Drumpf.
Did you listen to the doc? They all nomatter what side, are not doing it for you they do it for corporate america and there own pockets.
Very interesting, from one novelist to another.
Hmmmmm.....interesting.
I take it your preferred genre is also historical fiction (with an emphasis on American history), as was the great Gore Vidal's....?
A bit of sad foreshadowing at the 52:00 mark where Chris Noth's character brings up Spaulding Gray's characters thoughts of suicide.
A fascinating glimpse into Vidal's writing at 38:00...
In another universe, the universe I would prefer to live in, Gore Vidal was US president for at least 50 years. Obviously that universe doesn't have term limits for the right person.
A national treasure.
Vidal proves Phillips Exeter Academy is capable of producing graduates who do more than make money to leave to the school.
He left his estate to Harvard! : )
@@1fattyfatman By the time he signed it over to Harvard he was in an end-stage alcoholic daze, really out of his mind.
LEGEND !!!!
Thank you, contributing to my education. I should have known this. But didn't.
Read his books and essays. He is one of the greatest 20th Century American writers.
@@MTMF.london thank you i will. I had heard his name via parents but didn't know any more. I've looked a bit more, and definitely interested. Thank you for suggesting.
Why is this never on You Tube? March 2020
No idea. That's why I uploaded it, friend.
Nice to get to hear from Howard @23:37
Before chomsky there was gore vidal
I suspect his companion collaborated with him in writing and editing his manuscripts.
Wow. What great insights into power and human nature. I wonder what Gore would have thought about Trump and Twitter. I'm heading out to get a copy of Lincoln. Thanks very much it was better than taking a degree in history.
The one and only-----I miss him so
Was he reading Hitchen's *Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere?*
Gore reading Christopher Hitchens' book 'Unacknowledged Legislation', which has two essays on Gore 😀 @37:14
Truth-tellers. God, bless them.
I KNOW GORE VIDAL WHEN I WAS STILL STUDYING COLLEGE. AFTER GRADUATION, I'M A HUMBLE PERSON 🙏 TIME: 3:39PM
Brilliant mind
he was gorgeous when he was young
He definitely was...there's this picture of him wearing a suit and sitting in a chair, leaning forward, partial shadow on his face. It must have been taken in the 1950s, when he was in his mid/late 20s. Just...wow. Stunningly gorgeous.
the greatest ,,no politician like him is there? America the coulda been nation
as an outsider, now I understand
The Great Gore Vidal, an American GREAT!!! Oh, capitalism is the crisis!!!
omg..that's just been the fatest 85 minutes for a g e s
A little sad seeing Spalding Gray in the play talking about suicide.
3:50 Over the past week, a statue of Thomas Jefferson was torn down. Mr. Gore's cynical, deconstructionist musings about the "corridors of political power" seem like quaint insights from a prior historical era.
I'd have to disagree. I think his musings on power, and in particular, on the power of the "courtier" media to shape our perceptions of that power, are just as urgently relevant now as they were back then. People in power continue to lie for the sake of power, and the media spread these lies to the rest of us.
The taking down of statues is erasing history, yet another form of censorship.
A sage ...rare sight in Gringoland
I wonder what he would have said about these days.
Fast forward to 2021 and general motors is practically bankrupt.
oh God, to have Spalding Gray to talk about suicide
More poignant now than ever in the age of the presidential huckster Trump.
Bernard Fong President Trump will save planet Earth from a long dark evil path
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That certainly is what his followers believe...
@Theocritus The Democrats are also very good at ignoring inconvenient facts.
First one of his books that I read was
Lincoln . I was bought & paid for then . Much as I was when I read Poe
for the first time . Albeit , I didn't need a dictionary for Vidal as much as with
Poe , but I was young when I met him,
and he is still with me today. As is Vidal .
Check out 'The Best of Enemies'. Amazon will sell it to you.
Gore must've had a few words about Joanne Woodward's haircut
Disallowed satanism...highlighted logic , ignored whim but elevated WILL , and it's fruits
@1:21:27
Real grasp of history , pride and egalitarian ... and libertine ambitions were against the square hole...
I like him because he mentions Alaska, land of big game hunting.
52:58 - 53:58 Gore is very happy here, obviously having his ass kissed agrees with him.
And yet, we know really nothing about who this man really is. He’ll tell you all about Kennedy or Roosevelt, but when you ask him anything personal, he goes off on a story about Socrates or Plato. The wall never comes down. He’s witty and his books are well documented with facts. He’s brilliant and witty but what do we really know about him, not much about him.
Having read his second memoir, POINT TO POINT NAVIGATION, I can honestly say I know no more about the man behind the curtain than anyone else. He wasn't interested in revealing his own inner self. The people he knew, the things he thought, sure, but not what he truly felt. He never unclasped the book of his secret soul to his readers.