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Mailer, posing pugilist and writer of unreadable novels, was never going to get on with the more refined Gore. They found themselves together onThe Dick Cavett Showafter Gore had given Mailer’sPrisoner of Sexa terrible review which referred to Mailer having once stabbed his wife and suggested that the burly man of letters was all set to become the next Charles Manson. Mailer blithely told the audience, “We all know that I stabbed my wife many years ago,” before launching into a semi-coherent, drunken diatribe. He would later go on to punch Vidal at a dinner party. Rising from the floor, Gore quipped, “Words fail Norman Mailer once again.”DAVID DIMBLEBY
“I don’t know why you would because I don’t know who you are!” Gore tells the BBC's Mr. Election. “I know who you are, Mr. Vidal,” splutters the craven appeaser Dimbleby.THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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It's 1968, Vietnam and bras are burning! Buckley and Vidal square up on television. It’s the culture wars writ large. Vidal calls Buckley a “crypto Nazi,” Buckley calls Vidal a “queer” and threatens to “sock him in the Goddamn face.” Wonderful entertainment.GAYS
