RIP Gore Vidal

Guy_Incognito · Aug 4, 2012

mpcincal said:

Hearing about Vidal's death had me recalling a clip of "The Dick Cavett Show" I once saw, which ended with a memorable line from Cavett (which I thought he had said to Vidal, but actually Norman Mailer was on the receiving end). I just found it on YouTube. It was Cavett, Vidal, Mailer and writer Janet Flanner:

With all the shoutfests you see on the cable news channels these days, I was fascinated by how heated and childish, yet so intellectual, this four-way argument was.
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Mailer is really something, it takes a lot to fight with Vidal and come off looking like that big a jerk.

Ben_Hecht · Aug 5, 2012

Guy_Incognito said:

mpcincal said:

Hearing about Vidal's death had me recalling a clip of "The Dick Cavett Show" I once saw, which ended with a memorable line from Cavett (which I thought he had said to Vidal, but actually Norman Mailer was on the receiving end). I just found it on YouTube. It was Cavett, Vidal, Mailer and writer Janet Flanner:

With all the shoutfests you see on the cable news channels these days, I was fascinated by how heated and childish, yet so intellectual, this four-way argument was.
Click to expand...

Mailer is really something, it takes a lot to fight with Vidal and come off looking like that big a jerk.
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NM remains one of NYC's great literary characters now and forever, but it's as if the guy lived for conflict. Life's too short.

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