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readings from both men’s writings by Kelsey Grammer and John Lithgow, the former doing a reasonably good impression of Buckley). Was theirs match made in media heaven, or one destined to explode? (And does media heaven even make a distinction?) Buckley and Vidal were both famous, blessed with sharp wits, confident of their debating skills and absolutely convinced of their superior GORE VIDAL AND WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY intellect. (Coincidentally, both had also JR. CREATED MUDSLINGING AS recently failed in their only attempt to achieve political office.) POLITICAL COMMENTARY, MUCH TO Buckley, as founder and editor of the THEIR CHAGRIN National Review, was the central figure in The Best of Enemies a rising movement that was re-shaping the Directed and written by Robert Gordon and Republican party, and he reached a wide Morgan Neville. Starring William F. Buckley, audience as host of the talk show Firing Line. Gore Vidal, Kelsey Grammer and John Lithgow. Vidal had established himself as the author Opens Friday, August 21, at the Landmark of the topical political play The Best Man, but Plaza Frontenac Theatre, 1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac. Call 314-995was currently riding high on the bestseller 6285 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com. list with Myra Breckinridge, a brilliant and notorious comic novel about movie fandom n the summer of a year already shaken by and sexual identity. (Best of Enemies does violence and division, two men, each the Vidal a disservice by using the notoriously bad unofficial figurehead for an ideological move- film version of the novel released two years ment, distilled the unrest of the day into a ver- after the debates as a means of illustrating bal battle that began with forced politeness Vidal’s work. The opportunity to show Raquel and ended in an explosion Welch in Vegas cowgirl garb was evidently of angry threats that made impossible to resist.) BY From all indications, Buckley and Vidal television history and forever ROBERT altered the reputations of the despised each other even before they sat down for their first encounter. Vidal’s dislike of combatants. HUNT ABC was the lowest rated Buckley was largely political; he saw the rising of the three major television strain of Buckley-influenced conservatism that networks when it made the decision to had launched Barry Goldwater’s campaign drop gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1968 and made a rising star out of Ronald Reagan presidential conventions in favor of a two- as a genuine threat to democracy. Buckley, on hour prime-time digest of each day’s events, the other hand, saw Vidal not as an ideological highlighted by a impromptu discussion by two threat but as a moral one, a living, breathing outspoken figures, the conservative author testament to decadent, liberal immorality. ABC’s original intention was to have the and editor William F. Buckley Jr. and novelist, two men offer opposing sides to the issues of playwright and cultural critic Gore Vidal. the day, moderated by host Howard K. Smith. Things did not go smoothly. The Best of Enemies is a sharp, informed That plan lasted less than two minutes. By documentary about Buckley and Vidal and the the time Buckley and Vidal returned for their second week, they were political and media climates determined to destroy that led to their debates. With FROM ALL INDICATIONS, each other. As violence a wide range of historical raged in the streets of material and a restrained BUCKLEY AND VIDAL Chicago around them amount of contemporary and delegates and talking-head footage (a handful DESPISED EACH OTHER reporters were maced of TV news executives, Vidal and Buckley experts and bigBEFORE THEY SAT DOWN by police, Buckley and Vidal seemed equally name guest stars such as Dick disinclined to restrain Cavett, Andrew Sullivan and FOR THEIR FIRST themselves, and things the late Christopher Hitchens), came to a head in the it ’s an entertaining and ENCOUNTER.” penultimate debate. ambitious cultural history that Vidal called Buckley a deftly works its way through a considerable amount of background material. “pro-crypto Nazi” and Buckley responded by Viewers who have never heard the phrase calling Vidal “you queer” and threatening, “I’ll “Huntley-Brinkley” will learn a great deal sock you in the goddamned face, and you’ll about the media and the way it treats politics, stay plastered.” The rules of debate may have and even more about the two public figures been discarded, but media and political history at the center of the storm. (There are also had been made.
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