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
Judeochristian morals, especially sexual standards often characterized as victorian. That is what we will Start Talking about today, the culture of the 1950s in moving our way toward the 1960s and the cultural revolution. Historians have paid more attention to the ways in which what is often regarded as the 1960s cultural revolution had its seeds planted in the 1950s. I will describe what the old culture was like. Sometimes referred to as the torian, sort of the shared angloAmerican Culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. The little piece that i gave you from william oneills book on america in 1945 describes the cultural assumptions of americans of this generation. Victorianism is today considered conservative in that it is kind of a derogatory term, considered puritanical, oldfashioned, retrograde, but much like the term liberalism, victorianism was actually liberalism of its day. In the 19th century, it really was in advance of premodern cultural patterns. Much as liberalism
Announcer and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Charley pride is a true Living Legend has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in the history of Country Music, is a threetime grammy winner and sold tens of millions of records worldwide and today he celebrates 50 years as a recording artist and im honored to finally have him on this program to discuss his trailblazing career. But before we start that conversation, a look back at Charley Pride performing just between you and me his first success on the country charts. Just between you and me im not so sure about it so just between you and me youre too much to forget youre too much to forget [ cheers and applause ] howd that sound to you all these years later . Well, it sound like what im still doing. Ha, ha. To what do you attribute the fact that you are still doing this 50 years later . Im just going to say it like this, i love what i do, and you remember the song called that old black magic by