[DOC] [TLE] The Best Man (play) - Wikipedia [PAR] Place premiered, Morosco Theatre New York City. Original language, English. 
Subject, Five men vie for their party's nomination for president. Genre, Drama. 
Setting, A presidential convention, Philadelphia, 1960. The Best Man is a 1960 
play by American playwright Gore Vidal. The play premiered on ... John Stamos, 
Cybill Shepherd, Kristin Davis, and Elizabeth Ashley took over... [DOC] [TLE] The Best Man (1964 film) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Best Man is a 1964 political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with 
a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his play of the same title ... They clash at 
the nominating convention in Los Angeles and lobby for the crucial support ... 
was known as "Ruthless Robert" in political circles during the 1950s and early 
1960s). [DOC] [TLE] Pols in a Pickle "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" - New York Magazine [PAR] The play takes place in two Philadelphia hotel suites during a 1960 political 
convention in which two candidates for the presidential nomination are running 
neck... [DOC] [TLE] What Do Contested Conventions Look Like? Ask Hollywood And ... [PAR] Jul 14, 2016 ... Over the next two weeks, Republicans and Democrats will gather in Cleveland 
and Philadelphia for a ritual ... And once that happens, as characters in HBO's 
political comedy ... around convention-al edges  like Gore Vidal's Broadway 
play The Best Man, which opened during the 1960 Kennedy-Nixon... [DOC] [TLE] A Vote for The Best Man | Huffington Post [PAR] Jul 11, 2012 ... The revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man may be melodramatic at ... The play 
takes place during a 1960 political convention in Philadelphia. [DOC] [TLE] `The Best Man': Down and dirty politics - tribunedigital-baltimoresun [PAR] Nov 4, 2004 ... But in fact, this prescient political drama debuted in 1960. ... respect: It's set at a 
national political convention at a time when the outcome of such events was 
actually up in the air. Still, Vidal's trenchant commentary on the fine line between 
the ... The play takes place in Philadelphia - the city of "brotherly love"... [DOC] [TLE] Old School Politics in THE BEST MAN at Actors'NET | Stage Magazine [PAR] Sep 24, 2012 ... Gore Vidal's THE BEST MAN, is old-school politics at its most rough ... The action 
of the play takes place in two identical hotel suites during the 1960 political 
convention of an unnamed political party right here in Philadelphia. [DOC] [TLE] THEATER; The Bard of American Politics, Still Campaigning - The ... [PAR] Sep 3, 2000 ... Profile of playwright Gore Vidal in light of return to Broadway of his 1959 play The 
Best Man, ... Politics have changed mightily since 1959, and the play and its 
author are a reminder ... in two hotel suites in Philadelphia in July 1960, as the 
convention unfolds around them. ... That doesn't happen anymore. [DOC] [TLE] CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Convention's Worth Of (Pretend) Candidates [PAR] Aug 11, 2000 ... Of course the fictional Pryce never takes a stand on the abortion issue. ... as 
prescient as ''The Best Man,'' the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 play. .... It 
will keep its original setting at a 1960 political convention in Philadelphia. ... a 
good man who happens to be among the world's worst campaigners. [DOC] [TLE] An Overdue Revival For `Best Man' - tribunedigital-thecourant [PAR] Oct 1, 2000 ... When Gore Vidal's first play, ``Visit to a Small Planet,'' opened at the Booth ... Best 
Man'' takes place at an old-fashioned political convention, in those lost days ... 
This is the way it would have been in 1960, in Philadelphia, in a... [DOC] [TLE] The Penfield Players Launch their 50th Season with Gore Vidal's ... [PAR] Nov 4, 2014 ... Wheeling and dealing at the political convention in Philadelphia. ... The play 
originally opened on Broadway in 1960 and ran for 520 performances ... The 
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Question: This Gore Vidal play takes place in Philadelphia in 1960 at a political convention
Answer: "The Best Man"