PBS' AMERICAN MASTERS: GORE VIDAL Now Available for Streaming

Beginning today, PBS and American Masters are making the 2003 documentary American Masters The Education of Gore Vidal available for streaming on the American Masters website (http://pbs.org/americanmasters) and PBS Video (http://pbs.org/video) to commemorate the life of the eclectic intellectual who passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2012, at age 86.

Watch now: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/gore-vidal/the-education-of-gore-vidal/2179/. This web stream will be available for one week only, through August 9, so watch while you can.

American Masters The Education of Gore Vidal will also air on PBS in select markets beginning tonight at 7:30pm (ET) through August 12 (contact your local PBS station for airdates or check local listings).

 American Masters The Education of Gore Vidal (2003) celebrates the life and work of the dramatist, novelist, screenwriter, actor, and public debater. This 90-minute biographical portrait includes scenes from the Broadway revival of The Best Man in 2000 starring Charles Durning, Spalding Gray, and Chris Noth, the 2000 Democratic Shadow Convention, and with Gore Vidal at his home in Ravello, Italy. The 2003 film features interviews with now-deceased author George Plimpton, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and The New York Review of Books Editor and Publisher Barbara Epstein, as well as author and friend Jay Parini, the executor of Vidal's literary estate. Vidal's closest friends -- including Paul Newman, JoAnne Woodward, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Eli Wallach, and Anne Jackson -- appear in the film, reading excerpts from his writings. A production of THIRTEEN's American Masters for WNET. Directed by Deborah Dickson. Produced by Matt Kapp. Director of Photography: Don Lenzer. Edited by Sakae Ishikawa. Susan Lacy is the creator and executive producer of American Masters.