Lincoln-reciting a highly unlikely, fatalistic rumination on her husband’s murder. Vidal will surely remember, given his astounding total recall of our long-distance telephone conversations, that at one point I broke the news to him that the mini-series would conclude with Mary Tyler Moore-as Mrs. How easily one might have yielded to the temptation to lump the two products together.įor example, Mr. The other 2,200 words surveyed the television program. I would remind him that only a 200-word sidebar that accompanied the article dealt directly with Mr. Nevertheless the novelist recites a litany of attacks he insists I levelled against him in the Times. Vidal’s errors and excesses, but manufactured some new ones of its own, for which no reasonable observer would think of holding Mr. As such, it not only revivified many of Mr. It was not biographical drama, per se, but a dramatization of a historical novel. The case of “Gore Vidal’s Lincoln” presented special problems. Vidal suggests, but to measure its faithfulness to history, and in so doing, consider the genre of historical drama and the confusion it can generate. Needless to say, the Times did not assign me to “bloody” the mini-series, as Mr.
Now I believe I must respond to some of the outlandish comments Mr. Thus forearmed, I required a fee from the Times to read the script of “Gore Vidal’s Lincoln” and watch the television production. I, on the other hand, actually read all of Mr. I am the coauthor of two studies of Civil War iconography, The Lincoln Image and The Confederate Image, both of which certainly have captions, but also text, and none of which, I presume, Mr. I am perfectly happy to identify myself as the “caption writer” to whom he refers. Gore Vidal recently used the occasion of his renewed “exchange” with Lincoln scholars and biographers to rebut an unnamed “caption writer’s” New York Times article on the NBC-TV mini-series based on his novel.
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