Love some Gore Vidal.

"An artist is a person who has invented an artist." There's definitely some truth to that.

Great video made even greater by the T-Bone cameo at 8:05

Nice!!

Wow!! A great looking guy who hasn’t covered up his beautiful features with a face diaper and attached mucus catcher (aka beard and mustache). So beautiful to see in this day of glorified laziness and slovenliness. Clean shaven is and always has been more sanitary and better looking!!🤷🏼‍♀️👍😇 Yes, you, Allen Guy Wilcox as well as Vidal in his day. Subscribed! I just discovered your channel. Arrived here from listening to a Christopher Hitchens interview where he said that Gore Vidal was the writer that most impressed him.

I've read most of Gore's published writings and still yearn for more. This was an enjoyable 10 minutes and I look forward to Parini's book- (it's on my shelf, waiting) @1:05, just to be clear, is Eugene Vidal, not, as the text implies, TP Gore.

I wonder what Vidal thought on Tolstoy's views on history

One of the last true Romans.

I thought he designed clothing. ?

Most famous for writing the screenplay for “Caligula” - a gross yet pretentious pornographic movie.

Although he criticized the America of earlier times ( what did he not criticize? ) he also despaired that the halcyon earlier days of the "republic" were gone, to be followed by those of a decadent empire. He was nostalgic for the days when people of his class lived lives of unquestioned great privilege. He was born in the upper class, and despite his political posturing, he had contempt for the great unwashed. For fifty years he predicted, with relish, the collapse of the American Empire, but it is still going strong. His cynical world weariness became tiresome, and when one has sex with thousands of men, and possibly a handful of women, if that many, he tried to obfuscate the fact that he was gay with semantic games. He wouldn't acknowledge that he was a member of a group which included ordinary people. He was far too grand for that.