Buckley Vs. Vidal: Worth Seeing
Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon‘s “Best of Enemies,” one of the year’s finest documentaries, will open on July 29th. On one level it is a spry, highly intelligent history of the ABC TV debates between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Gore Vidal during the Democratic and Republic national conventions of ’68. On another level it’s a capturing of a time and a pre-Fox News political climate that no longer exists — even with the police riot on the Chicago streets that eventually engulfed Buckley when he lost his temper and called Vidal a “queer.”
