‘Sympathy for the Devil’: Friendship with Gore Vidal

April 22 -- On “Charlie Rose,” a conversation with Author Michael Mewshaw. His new book is called "Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal."
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[@subversivelysurreal3645]

Gore Vidal Rocks!

[@rhmcvay]

Gore's brilliance was graced by his Iraq War Trilogy "Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace", "Dreaming War", and "Imperial America".

[@jansmiths8629]

dear gore thoughts of our times in the cottage give me that warm glow we often shared. thank u dear man.

[@oldgaleazzo37]

+jan smiths did you know gore?

[@MissPerriwinkle]

i read his bio's and essays over & over......brilliant man that mr gore.

[@firevoodoo1]

The fact he is dead is almost unbearable. My favorite almost an-americanly intellectual American. R.I.P True Genius, the Light of the World. Condolences to America (and the World, actually) from Russia.

[@citizen1163]

Who now?

[@treecounting]

@michael boultinghouse Zappa was a clown, like yourself. Troll where you find the shallow water

[@raulvasquez2036]

"Alcoholism is the plague of American writers."

[@citizen1163]

Not just American writers

[@TheLinuxYes]

Alcoholism is the plague of americans. no one likes drugs/alcohol more.

[@joaov.m.oliveira9903]

@@TheLinuxYes The Czech do.

[@maskedmarvyl4774]

He never explained why he titled his biography of Gore Vidal "Sympathy for the Devil". Why? Because Vidal was an atheist? Charlie Rose should asked him to explain why he gave it that title.

[@TheLinuxYes]

i doubt Vidal believed the devil even exists. and if it does exist, it would be here on earth.

[@intuitionz1198]

it's the title of his book. his friend, this guy speaking about him. he wrote a book about him. seriously? 😔

[@raginald7mars408]

EXCELLENT!!!!!!

[@machtrebel]

Very intr.

[@charleswinokoor6023]

Where’s the rest of the interview?

[@user-ff4lr2jj5r]

Vidal was really a product of an earlier age, something I think he understood. He was out of place in an America that was all about hustle and bustle to make a buck...he said Garfield was the best of American presidents and I think he would have been happy at that time...he was in a sense part of Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons.

[@mattja52]

Gore Vidal is not a purveyor of Schadenfreude, he was devastatingly honest, he may have rub people the wrong way, in his manner. He was interested in truth, not opinion, for truth is cogent, irrefutable, and cannot be debated, opinion is a view or judgment formed about something not necessarily based on fact or knowledge and can be debated. He was my mentor and a rascal.

[@theshadowbanned9885]

No sense in hiding it..

[@carolmullen7731]

Gore was brilliant, handsome, and witty, I was crazy about him. ❣

[@TedATL1]

His arrogance was a shield for personal insecurity. There are clips here and there where he lets the shield drop for a moment. I expect he fell into depression when he lost his sexual attractiveness (in the gay world). Fairly common.

[@TheLinuxYes]

everyone, once they get old enough, loses their sexual attractiveness. unless you die young. as you age you will slowly being to lose everything, for that matter.

[@johnnycook2384]

Armchair critics rarely have any thing of value to contribute. Mere speculation is like diarrhea; everyone has an occasional bout with it but no one wants to hear about it.

[@gamingwithslacker]

Where does Gore , publically, drop his shield ? I've yet to see it, and im enormously fascinated if he has. If you could give more specific information, I'd be grateful. Of course, that's a tall order, and I dont mean to massively impose.

[@patrickmccormack4318]

"Palimpsest"

[@brainsareus]

Hemingway; had cancer.

[@steveconn]

No he didn't. Killed himself from all the shock-therapy and memory loss.

[@orangewarm1]

Contrary to popular belief, people dont commit suicide for themselves, they do it because they feel they are a burden.

[@tommym321]

Lee Lorenz I think that is too glib of a statement. Suicide is, like humanity, complex and often contradictory. There are many many reasons why people kill themselves. Sometimes the reasons make sense to outsiders, sometimes they don’t.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I noticed that some of these liberal commentaries, that is interviews (which are really not interviews but opportunities for these people to quote from their writings), that you cannot respond to some of the things that are said; comments are disabled. So when I find people, like this man I grew up hearing on television, speaking of gross error, I cannot correct him. Which means on the record he goes unchallenged with the truth! You have children and students etc. listening thinking what they’re hearing is brilliance when sometimes they are the hearing a bunch of BS. I caution you young people to check your facts when you listen to these people reporting history or attacking someone else who is not of their beliefs system. Your faith will be shaken in them I promise! Gore Vidal was one lazy author. In his day he rattled out a lot of cheap digs, and what I characterize as in sincere sympathy. It was easier to get away with this back in the days when you didn’t have any fact checkers. And I mean sincere fact checkers not those with an agenda! By the way, I dictated this remark I make no apologies for the computer misspelling things, improper use of punctuation, or capitalizing things that shouldn’t be.

[@detrockcity3]

You have any proof or just bullshitting into your phone from some hole?

[@tommym321]

Your opinions would carry more weight if you gave specific examples of errors and let us judge for ourselves instead of just insisting that we accept your conclusions.

[@intuitionz1198]

these are interviews to give the people an opportunity to hear how Gore and others feel. they aren't up for debate and they don't need to be corrected. least of all by some twit in the comment section of a KZbin video. 🙄

[@louisgonzalez8846]

Who rattled yr chain,????

[@chrisbennett606]

What a load of rubbish he's got a book to sell