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"Best of Enemies" quotes

Name: Best of Enemies
Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
Released: 31 Jul 2015

A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley.

Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville

Writer: Robert Gordon, Tom Graves, Morgan Neville

Production: N/A

Genre: documentary, biography, history

Year: 2015

MetaScore: 77/100

ImdbRating: 7.6

BoxOffice: $892,802

Released: 31 Jul 2015

Awards: 6 wins & 27 nominations

3 Clips

Self - Point Commentator William F. Buckley

Now listen you queer stop calling me a crypto Nazi - Best of Enemies

00:16 Now listen you queer stop calling me a crypto Nazi

The morays of the country are going to hell - Best of Enemies

00:39 The morays of the country are going to hell

ABC was the third of the three networks - Best of Enemies

00:12 ABC was the third of the three networks

Cast

Self - Debater - Gore Vidal

Self - Debater - William F. Buckley

Self - Media Studies, Columbia University - Todd Gitlin

Self - Host, NPR's On the Media - Brooke Gladstone

Self - Former President, NBC News - Richard Wald

Self - Former President, ABC News - William Sheehan

Self - Writer, New York Magazine - Frank Rich

Self - Biographer, William F. Buckley Jr. - Sam Tanenhaus

Self - Buckley's Wife - Patricia Buckley

Self - Historian, The Heritage Foundation - Lee Edwards

Self - Buckley's Brother - Reid Buckley

Self - Buckley's Personal Assistant - Linda Bridges

Self - Author, Gore Vidal: A Biography - Fred Kaplan

Self - Vidal's Editor & Friend - Matt Tyrnauer

Self - Correspondent, ABC News - Sam Donaldson

Self - Anchor, ABC News - Howard K. Smith

Self - ABC Publicist - George Merlis

Self - Political Essayist - Christopher Hitchens

Self - Talk Show Host - Dick Cavett

Self - Author - Norman Mailer

Self - Comedian - Godfrey Cambridge

Self - Boxer - Muhammad Ali

Self - Media Historian - Eric Alterman

Self - Culture Writer, New York Times - Ginia Bellafante

Self - President, ABC News - Elmer Lower

Self - Linguist, Columbia University - John McWhorter

Self - Writer, Vanity Fair Magazine - James Wolcott

Self - Political Editor & Blogger - Andrew Sullivan

Self - Senator, Illinois - Everett Dirksen

Self - Mayor, Chicago - Richard J. Daley

Self - Playwright - Arthur Miller

Self - Actor - Paul Newman

Self - Political Satirist - Al Capp

Self - Point Commentator - Shana Alexander

Self - Counterpoint Commentator - James J. Kilpatrick

Self - New York Times Writer - Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Gore Vidal - John Lithgow

William F. Buckley - Kelsey Grammer

Self - Noam Chomsky

Self - Walter Cronkite

Klan Member - Mason Pike

Self - Nancy Reagan

Self - Ronald Reagan