Passion of the Weiss

For the Literary Nerds (Ya Out There)

Via the inimitable Alfred Soto, comes this 1984 Buchanan/Braden Program clip, featuring Gore Vidal at his most mordant: alleging that Lincoln was syphilitic, eviscerating the idea of the film auteur, and dismissing Ernest Hemingway as a glorified Field and Stream writer with a gift for publicity.

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4 Responses to “For the Literary Nerds (Ya Out There)”

  1. J-Mass Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    I’m gonna go out on a limb here. Primo’s beats would hold up as forensic evidence.

  2. christine Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:31 pm

    you should have said this was gore vidal at his most infuriating.

    there is more vivacity and truth in one meticulously edited line of hemingway’s than there is in the entirety of this monster’s oeuvre.

    i always say that vidal’s 1876 should be prescribed to insomniac patients; its soporific prose will render anyone unconscious.

  3. Passion of the Weiss Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    But what do you really think about Gore Vidal?

  4. Tray Says:
    October 30th, 2008 at 3:41 pm

    Yeah, he really eviscerated that film auteur theory. All he had to do was say it was ridiculous, and poof - eviscerated! And Hemmingway does suck, but Mann? Really, Gore?

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