Gore Vidal

When Netflix said it would not release ‘Gore,’ the Gore Vidal biopic, it may have been due not just to the Kevin Spacey scandal but its connection to Vidal’s sex with younger men.

Susan Sarandon found out she was pregnant by the pool. Princess Margaret visited. Now Kevin Spacey will play Vidal in a biopic set in Rome and Vidal’s Italian home, La Rondinaia.

Noted author, TV talk show habitue, Gore Vidal was first and last a cat who walked by himself. Biographer—and friend—Jay Parini talks about the difficulty of seeing Vidal plainly.

One of Jack Larson’s lovers was Montgomery Clift, and when this author visited the Adventures of Superman star, he talked about his long friendship with Gore Vidal.

Biographer Sam Tanenhaus calls him the architect of modern conservatism and the inventor of the TV debate format. Yet today generations have no idea who Buckley was.

If there was a fight club for writers, Norman Mailer would be Tyler Durden.

This exclusive clip from the documentary ‘Best of Enemies,’ about the famous ’68 debates between Buckley and Vidal, explains how America became separated along political lines.