SOURCE: “TV Stations of the Cross,” in Los Angeles Times Book Review, September 13, 1992, pp. 2, 9.

In the following review of Live from Golgotha, Rechy finds Vidal's satire “splendid” at best and “self-indulgent” at worst.

If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell. And if God is a Jew, Vidal is no better off. There’s enough to outrage everyone in this audacious and courageous send-up of “the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ as told in the three synoptic gospels as well as by that creep John” and by St. Paul in the epistles to St. Timothy. Since super-wit Vidal, astute chronicler and commentator of American mores, has already taken on the likes of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, the Norman Podhoretz family, William Buckley, and even Moby Dick and Norman Mailer, it’s not surprising that he might want to take on...