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Firing Line 1966-1986: Personalities
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Item Title Firing Line 1966-1986: Personalities
Guest Adler, Mortimer Jerome (1902-2001)
Guest Cleaver, Eldridge (1935-)
Guest Luce, Clare Boothe (1903-1987)
Guest Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-2006)
Guest Greer, Germaine (1939-)
Guest Thomas, Norman (1884-1968)
Guest Sheen, Fulton J. (Fulton John) (1895-1979)
Guest Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich (1918-2008)
Guest Muggeridge, Malcolm (1903-1990)
Guest Mailer, Norman
Guest Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997)
Guest Leary, Timothy Francis (1920-)
Guest West, Rebecca (1892-1983)
Guest Ali, Muhammad (1942-)
Guest Crossman, R. H. S. (Richard Howard Stafford) (1907-1974)
Guest Powell, J. Enoch (John Enoch) (1912-1998)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 14, 1986
Description

While Firing Line has had its share of world leaders (featured in the first

installment of this celebration, above), "personalities" have been so thick on the ground that Mr. Buckley and his producer, Warren Steibel, decided to limit this anthology to people who had appeared in the show's first five years. Some of the Did-people-really-do-those-things-in-the-Sixties? vignettes defy simple quotation: Timothy Leary in his flower-child outfit; Allen Ginsberg playing his harmonium and chanting Ommm. Then there's the young Muhammad Ali: "I'm thinking ahead of myself. You see, you're a wise man, and you make a man think." WFB: "Did that ever happen in the ring?" MA: "No, boxers don't think as fast as you. They're slow." Or the youngish Norman Mailer: "You know, for years I've felt that the greatest trouble with this country is that it's insane.... One of the tiny things I felt it was certainly insane about was me."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0677
Record Number80040.924
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