BBC Bookclub: Gore Vidal (September 7th 2008)
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2012
- James Naughtie talks to one of the great American men of letters - novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal. Now in his eighties but with his acerbity still intact, Vidal joins an audience of readers to discuss his memoir Point to Point Navigation.
Love listening to the snooty chuckles around the room after each Vidal barb. Wish I could have been there.
Thoroughly enjoyable bookclub episode with audience provide the perfect setting for the brilliant Gore Vidal .
Mr Vidal was amazing and right this moment I cannot think of more than maybe a couple that came close to being something like him...maybe I'd say Jefferson, Ben Franklin, (John Adams and John Q, his son, perhaps in politics.) I would have loved to be around when Gore & Jack Kennedy talked about anything at all, I loved JFK, such brilliance and wit also......I wish so much I had known Gore and listened to him about my favorite things...history and good books. Isn't it sad to have death come and take away those that are the cream of the crop? Well, we have his books, also these great audio/video messages and talks by him. Millions love you now and other millions gone as you are, loved you also.Mr Vidal.
Terrific mimicry from Vidal.
“I am the victim of 8 biographies” real stuff.... lol
I don['t want to hear anyone comment on Gore Vidal until they have experienced this BBC production, circa 2008. At a time when alcoholism, depression, diabetes, and age had all but conquered him, Vidal here is Vidal....Chris Hitchens stated that after Lincoln Vidal was through...doesn't know what he is talking about. This is brilliant.
Hitchens, as Chomsky said, stopped producing anything of value in the 80's. Hitchens is trash.
Besides, Creation was Vidal's finest work, not Lincoln.
He is brilliant here.
I'm a little disappointed he couldn't see through Hillary. She'd have made a very good Republican president.
@@meadow9441 Did he know she (and her husband, really) were/are closet Republicans? They were a big part of the Democratic Leadership Committee to bring the party to the right. Bill signed welfare reform - written by the GOP, and both Bill and Hill opposed same-sex marriage until very late in the game.
@@HC-cb4yp haha nice jk
Bill and Hillary, like the Kennedys, and the Obamas, were probably very nice, smart, pleasant people to be around in parties and events. Writers and artists are often seduced by charismatic people with power. And it's a mutually beneficial relationship.
Haha. Vidal to Pilger: That's journalistic melodrama!
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Big fan of Vidal. But Vidal, like other titans of their fields, suffers from snobbery to such an extent he truly thinks none of his peers have value.
Well, why are his peers given academia or the press, and then you discover nobody has anything much to say?