1. I have an idea for a Netflix series but don't know anyone in Hollywood. So the pitch: Yelling Stop: The Buckleys, the Bozells, & the American Century. Starring William F. Buckley, L. Brent Bozell, Franco, Goldwater, Kissinger, Thatcher, Reagan, the Bushes etc.
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5. Buckley & Bozell Jr clash over John Birch Society (WFB wants to expel). Bozells move to Spain & fall in love with fascism & theocracy. Start drinking. Goldwater wins but is crushed while Bozell runs for congress (with E. Howard Hunt as advisor). Loses.
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6. Season 3: Coming Apart, 1960s-1970s. WFB becomes TV celebrity hobnobbing with Mailer, Germaine Greer, Kissinger, the Kennedys. Threatens to punch out Gore Vidal. Bozell, jealous, starts Catholic beakaway journal, Triumph. Buckley & Bozell start quarelling.
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7. Buckley accuses Bozell of being a theocrat, Bozell accuses Buckley of being a sellout pushing a domesticated conservatism friendly to establishment. Covertly, Buckley keeps sending money to sister to pay for education of Bozell kids.
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8. WFB increasingly scared of Bozell Jr. & Patricia's descent into belligerence & alcoholism as they advocate attacking abortion clinics. Populist/establishment divide on right opens up. E. Howard Hunt comes to Buckley with Watergate story.
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9. Death & Resurrection. In 1980s WFB feted as as eminence grise of Reagan & Thatcher, while Bozell Jr. & Patricia abandoned conservative politics for charity work. Bozell works with refugees & prisoners.
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10. Death & Resurrection Part II. Bozell dies in obscurity, Buckley in fame. Cut to 2020: scenes of young Catholics taking up Bozell's integralism, priests Bozell trained in Spain rising in hierarchy, attacking National Review as sell out, Bozell IV rioting on Jan. 6. The end.
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11. Anyway, there's a lot more to Buckley/Bozell story (see my piece here). But that's the main outline. Hollywood, call me!https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bozell-buckley-right-violence/ …
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In what season does Friedrich von Hayek try to persuade Maggie Thatcher to herd the TUC's organizers into the Alexandra Palace & unleash the machine guns?
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Season 4.
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