Gore Vidal Destroying the Lies of the American Empire 2003
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Gore Vidal (/ˌɡɔːr vᵻˈdɑːl/; born Eugene Louis Vidal; 3 October 1925 - 31 July 2012) was an American writer (of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays) and a public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.
In the 1960s, the weekly American sketch comedy television program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in featured a running-joke sketch about Vidal; the telephone operator Ernestine (Lily Tomlin) would call him, saying: "Mr. Veedul, this is the Phone Company calling! (snort! snort!)".[102][103] The sketch, titled "Mr. Veedle" also appeared in Tomlin's comedy record album This Is a Recording (1972).[104]
In 1967, Vidal appeared on the CBS documentary, CBS Reports: The Homosexuals, in which he expressed his views on homosexuality in the arts.[105]
In the 1970s, in the stand-up comedy album Reality . . . What a Concept, Robin Williams portrayed Vidal as a drunken shill in a Thunderbird wine commercial.
In 2005, Vidal portrayed himself in Trailer for the Remake of Gore Vidal's Caligula, a video-art piece by Francesco Vezzoli included to the 2005 Venice Biennale and part of the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.[106] Moreover, Vidal provided his own voice for the animated-cartoon versions of himself in The Simpsons and the Family Guy programs. Likewise, he portrayed himself in the Da Ali G Show; the Ali G character mistakes him for Vidal Sassoon, a famous hairdresser.
In the biographic film Amelia (2009), the child Vidal was portrayed by William Cuddy, a Canadian actor. In the Truman Capote biographic film Infamous (2006), the young adult Vidal was portrayed by the American actor Michael Panes.
In 2009, Vidal was the narrator for a production of Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), by Bertolt Brecht, staged by the Royal National Theatre, London.
In "Gore Vidal Dies at 86; Prolific, Elegant, Acerbic Writer",The New York Times described him as "an Augustan figure who believed himself to be the last of a breed, and he was probably right. Few American writers have been more versatile, or gotten more mileage from their talent."[118] In "Gore Vidal, Iconoclastic Author, Dies at 86", The Los Angeles Times said that he was a literary juggernaut whose novels and essays were considered "among the most elegant in the English language".[119] In "Gore Vidal Dies; imperious gadfly and prolific, graceful writer was 86", The Washington Post described him as a "major writer of the modern era . . . [an] astonishingly versatile man of letters".
In the "Gore Vidal Obituary", The Guardian said that "Vidal's critics disparaged his tendency to formulate an aphorism, rather than to argue, finding in his work an underlying note of contempt for those who did not agree with him. His fans, on the other hand, delighted in his unflagging wit and elegant style."[121] In "Gore Vidal", The Daily Telegraph described the writer as "an icy iconoclast" who "delighted in chronicling what he perceived as the disintegration of civilisation around him".[122] In "Obituary: Gore Vidal", the BBC News said that he was "one of the finest post-war American writers . . . an indefatigable critic of the whole American system . . . Gore Vidal saw himself as the last of the breed of literary figures who became celebrities in their own right. Never a stranger to chat shows; his wry and witty opinions were sought after as much as his writing."[123] In "The Culture of the United States Laments the Death of Gore Vidal", the Spanish on-line magazine Ideal said that Vidal's death was a loss to the "culture of the United States", and described him as a "great American novelist and essayist".[124] In "The Writer Gore Vidal is Dead in Los Angeles", the online edition of the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described the novelist as "the enfant terrible of American culture" and that he was "one of the giants of American literature".[125] In "Gore Vidal: The Killjoy of America", the French newspaper Le Figaro said that the public intellectual Vidal was "the killjoy of America", but that he also was an "outstanding polemicist" who used words "like high-precision weapons".
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No doubt, Gore Vidal exerted an enormous amount of wisdom with his superb intellect and wit to all of us who were exposed to his novels, writings, and listening to him speak.
One of our great intellectuals, and he is sorely by me as by others. One of our guides' of historical facts.
I do agree that the quote of Benjamin Franklin makes one think. Another quote by him is that "America should build more lighthouses than churches."
His political and cultural essays were published in the Nation, The News Statesman, and the NY Review of Books and Esqiuire Magazine on sex and politics and religion that turned into quarrels with William F Buckley in which Gore Vidal would engulf with one line of Mr. Buckley's lunch box of tinted words leaving us wanting more as Mr. Buckley left the stage stunned.
Thank you for this interview that I have heard before.
RIP 🙏 ❤ Gore Vidal. Your words and books remain alive for all of us who cares.
Amazingly wise man.
I am not a historian, but I always found Gore Vidal fascinating
RIP
What a great man!!
I respect him so fucking much
Same here. Ignored him for years, now an in total awe! What a mind!
Some people you hear speak, and you know that the depth to the words you hear, you won't be able to achieve in your life.
Very good stuff. He wrote some really good books during his last years.
I never do this, but three minutes into the video, still during the introductions, and the punch lines already made me thumbs- up this video.
I was unaware that any American audience had heard such truth in 2003.They are finally waking up and standing up.i hope that they succeed in their efforts.
Pretty good mimic also...
And Benjamin's statement just came true 11/4/16
The Adam's quote is astonishing. Why did no democrat politician use it when it could have been powerfully deployed.
Okay, he said, "I told you so...
Americans are going to have to rewrite their national anthem...and take out '' land of the free'' ..you can thank the patriot act for that....
Thank you - Gore was an atheist I admired -
It only takes one generation to accustom the people to government that no longer responds to the will of the people. This is why there’s so much apathy now. It has to start local and once people see some results from local action then we can gain the momentum necessary for a national change
..in 2020 people came out of the woodworks to stop the lying orange despot thank God! .. so, we might have a chance yet,..
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around 33:40 about Christopher Hitchens, I would have liked him to speak more about him. As a fan of Hitchens, i thought he may have been naive about only one thing thing and that was Iraq 2. CH has mannerisms and timing and looks of Vidal...GV could have been his father for fuck's sake.
' never found Hitchens common sensical like GV, and he put his foot in his mouth a lot. Vidal could steer you to, and around conspiracy, and let you make up your mind, remember coincidence.
He sort of considered Hitchens as a surrogate son and was actually going to name him as his literary heir, but they fell out over the Iraq War. Sad.
no comment oncurrent presidents dirty b.s. lol smartman
Benjamin Franklin true founding father and an American prophet....woe to the nation who don`t heeds his words...