Exhilarating to watch them have dialogue back and forth and though it was 45 years ago, it spoke very much to the present tense. Brian and to your partner in crime . Morgan robert called me and said he had come across a bootleg tape of some of these debate between William Buckley and corbett all. Gore the doll. Gore vidal. I was very interested in him as a character. Buckley was someone we all knew from being such a tv presence, when i saw the debates i saw something that was really speaking to today as much as it was to 1968. We got excited and decided to make a film about it. Brian when did they start . And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 62. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. It really became more personal when gore went on it the David Celestine david suskine show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a categorize it like the right had been categori
As always, you can watch the senate live on cspan two. Monday on the communicators commissioner Michael Orielly on key issues before the fcc like net neutrality, regulating the internet, and the public response. When there is an open commission meeting, that information should be made available publicly. That would give an opportunity for everyone to know what we are thinking. Right now we have people who raise concerns regarding this, but they do not know exactly what is being put forth. They are doing rifle shot at scattered structures, you know . That is problematic for my point of view. I would like for them to not have to spend time on things that do not need attention. Monday night on the communicators on cspantwo. Coming up next, q a, filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon talk about their new documentary. Then British Foreign secretary hammond. This week on q a, filmmakers Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon talk about their new documentary, best of enemies, which tells the b
And what was the point of your documentary . Robert they had their first confrontation in print in 1960 or 1962. Bill on the right, gore on the left. Three columns, i think it was Associated Press that they did. A stunt. But, it really became more personal when gore went on the David Suskind show and dismissed bill buckley as kind of a characters. He sort of made the rirght a the right a respectable place to be. Gore dismissed it and demanded equal time. Brian you knew gore vidal, did you know bill buckley at all . Morgan i did not. He was the revelation to me, i was familiar with gore, but i buckley the man, and buckley the tv personality. Buckley told one of his editors, upon moving to new york, dont hang out with the conservatives, hang out with the liberals. The conservatives are boring. Buckleys apartment in new york with his wife patricia was full of liberal writers and some of her gay friends and people in the art world. Not what i wouldve thought of. He really had kind of a goi
Very annoying. But marc and abby . No strings. You know what they are . They are our new goto couple. Yeah. Its like we can call them up on a whim and boom were on a lear jet to monte carlo with the shmenkmans. Honey, their name is not shmenkman. Its shropshire. Shropshire . Shropshire. Too hard. Im stickin with shmenkman. [telephone rings] hello. Oh, hey, kel. Whats goin on . Oh, all right. Hold on a sec. Deacon and kelly wanna go out saturday night. They got a sitter. We got the shmenkmans on saturday. Is that definite . Well, they said 75 . Hit the mute. Ok. Hit it. I dont know where it is. There. Ok. Im gonna test it. [raspberry] it works. All right. So what about saturday night . What are we gonna do . Marc and abby gave us 75 , but if that falls through and we say no to deac and kelly, then we got nothing. All right, so what do we do . We gotta hold deacon and kelly until we know. Tell em were 75 sure we can do it. Carrie, the shmenkmans gave us 75 . We only have 25 to give. Well
Right now. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis the bb king was born into in the mississippi delta in 1925. He was working at the fields at seven and found solace in music and the church. Memphis with to less than three dollars in his pocket. He honed his guitar style in the streets of that city. His first break on the radio had him performing as beale street blues boy, later shortened to blues boy king. Lets look at a clip of him performing with his guitar, lucille. Every day, every day, i have the blues lose hate to tavis the king of the blues is in the house tonight. I have been looking forward to this i have been in the broadcast business, this is my 21st year. We have talked on radio, but never one on one on television. You hung out all over the world, in germany and europe. I have been with you on tour and all over the country. But never one on one on set. So i am delighted. I am glad you are finally here. You are hard to catch up with.